Article snippet: The latest poll of Iowa voters sparked reactions from several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, who said the large primary field means even candidates with relatively low numbers are viable contenders. The benchmark Des Moines Register and CNN poll, released Saturday night, showed former Vice President MORE at 14 percent. Appearing Sunday morning on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sanders said it's unlikely any candidate will achieve 50 percent support in Iowa. He noted that neither he nor former Secretary of State MORE was able to break 50 percent in the 2016 Iowa caucuses — Clinton ultimately won by a fraction of a point — and added that the large field makes it an even more daunting task this year. "We're not going to get 50 percent of the vote in Iowa. I don't think anybody will," Sanders said. Polls have shown the Vermont senator has consistently been in second place behind Biden, but the Iowa Poll is the first to show other candidates coming close. Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), meanwhile, waved off his weaker showing in the poll, which put him at 2 percent, down from 11 percent in December, despite a blitz of appearances across the first-in-the-nation caucus state. "I don't know that this many months out from the caucuses in Iowa that these polls really indicate what our prospects are," O'Rourke told MORE, and we wouldn't have been able to lead the largest grass-roots effort in the state of Texas.” Sen. she noted on CBS's “Face the Nation,” put h... Link to the full article to read more