As to who Democrats' national presidential frontrunner is, journalistic disputes intensify with every released polling average showing that Joe Biden lies indisputably in first place. With the sole exception of the Biden-Elizabeth Warren contest, margins of error also put the frontrunner spreads beyond dispute, which of course only further intensify journalists' arguments as to who is the Democratic frontrunner.
Important to note is that the judiciously experienced Amy Klobuchar has also qualified for the 19 December debate. She is not shown (or grouped) above, however, because of the skewing pestilence of Andrew Yang — who, as just another egotistical political amateur who believes his public-service career should begin at the top, rather than making his bones as a hand-to-hand combative, lifetime custodian of public affairs, did fail to qualify. Yet Klobuchar's ship of state was separated from the main body not because of Yang's higher-than-Klobuchar's polling average, but because of the marginally greater amount of money he raised. Such is politics.
Independent, major polls tend to roughly confirm the average frontrunner findings cited above:
Respectively, Monmouth's polling is rated by FiveThirtyEight as "A+"; ABC/WP's polling was conducted by Abt Associates, rated "A/B"; Fox News' was conducted by Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. Research, rated "A-"; NBC/WSJ conducted by Hart Research ("B/C") and Public Opinion Strategies ("B-"); and USA's Suffolk polling is rated "A-."
Thus stand the facts behind the Democratic race for the White House, not the prejudiced yammering of partisan spinners. Such facts are, naturally, as subject to change as Republican defenses of Trump. Yet what makes the "debate" so amusing is that those who merely cite the facts are also those who are generally accused of committing the most grievous partisan spin.
As far as I can tell, there is only one other avocation as loaded with self-serving, simple-minded mendacity as intense political partisanship. And it tends to spread its legs. Hence the other debate as to which is really the world's oldest profession.