Democratic frontrunners for president such as Joe Biden are skipping the largest annual gathering of progressive activists, ceding the stage to Elizabeth Warren, who's steadily gaining ground in national polling.Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg and others are opting not to attend a presidential forum hosted by Daily Kos at the Netroots Nation conference on Saturday.They have good reason to be cautious, one progressive activist whose attending the conference told DailyMail.com.Sanders and another presidential candidate were harassed the last time they attended, in 2015, by Black Lives Matter activists who booed and interrupted them.'I would be very nervous if I were advising any campaign about putting my candidate on that stage,' the person said.The conference coincides with a YouGov/Economist that shows Biden with a five point lead over Warren, whose popularity is on the rise, and Harris' post-debate shimmer starting to fade.Sanders remains in fourth place, but his support has now dropped to the low double-digits.Biden has repeatedly polled at 22 percent since the Miami slugfest, where Harris undermined his record on race.She benefited from the attack in some early polls but dropped to 14 percent and third place in the Economist survey.Warren benefited from slide.She jumped to 17 percent, breaking away from Sanders, who she's ideologically similar to.He polled at one of his lowest points in weeks - 11 percent - in the survey that published on Wednesday.With the next Democratic debate only three weeks away, candidates in the crowded 2020 field appear to be prioritizing states for precious weekend travel, where polling will decide their positioning in the next debate.Biden and Booker will campaign in New Hampshire, for instance.Buttigieg.Harris and Sanders have not said what they'll doing with their weekends.Only four of the 25 Democrats seeking the 2020 nomination accepted an invitation to speak at the afternoon panel at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania conference.Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jay Inslee and Julian Castro are the only confirmed candidates attending the forum.The Massachusetts senator has attended the conference for years and as a darling of the movement, she's unlikely to face the problems of some of her peers.Advisers for Biden, Sanders and Buttigieg are all too familiar with the costs of speaking at Netroots under the wrong conditions.Biden senior adviser Symone Sanders was the spokeswoman for Bernie Sanders, no relation, at the time of the 2015 confrontation with activists at Netroots.Sanders was giving his stump speech when he was interrupted by activists demanding he take a harder line on police brutality against blacks.Lis Smith was repping Martin O'Malley, the former governor of Maryland, at the time of the drama.O'Malley was the first to be bombarded that year.He was speaking when an African-American activist stormed the stage and took control of the microphone.Protesters jeered as he declared,
Democratic frontrunners for president such as Joe Biden are skipping the largest annual gathering of progressive activists, ceding the stage to Elizabeth Warren, who's steadily gaining ground in national polling.Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg and others are opting not to attend a presidential forum hosted by Daily Kos at the Netroots Nation conference on Saturday.They have good reason to be cautious, one progressive activist whose attending the conference told DailyMail.com.Sanders and another presidential candidate were harassed the last time they attended, in 2015, by Black Lives Matter activists who booed and interrupted them.'I would be very nervous if I were advising any campaign about putting my candidate on that stage,' the person said.The conference coincides with a YouGov/Economist that shows Biden with a five point lead over Warren, whose popularity is on the rise, and Harris' post-debate shimmer starting to fade.Sanders remains in fourth place, but his support has now dropped to the low double-digits.Biden has repeatedly polled at 22 percent since the Miami slugfest, where Harris undermined his record on race.She benefited from the attack in some early polls but dropped to 14 percent and third place in the Economist survey.Warren benefited from slide.She jumped to 17 percent, breaking away from Sanders, who she's ideologically similar to.He polled at one of his lowest points in weeks - 11 percent - in the survey that published on Wednesday.With the next Democratic debate only three weeks away, candidates in the crowded 2020 field appear to be prioritizing states for precious weekend travel, where polling will decide their positioning in the next debate.Biden and Booker will campaign in New Hampshire, for instance.Buttigieg.Harris and Sanders have not said what they'll doing with their weekends.Only four of the 25 Democrats seeking the 2020 nomination accepted an invitation to speak at the afternoon panel at the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania conference.Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jay Inslee and Julian Castro are the only confirmed candidates attending the forum.The Massachusetts senator has attended the conference for years and as a darling of the movement, she's unlikely to face the problems of some of her peers.Advisers for Biden, Sanders and Buttigieg are all too familiar with the costs of speaking at Netroots under the wrong conditions.Biden senior adviser Symone Sanders was the spokeswoman for Bernie Sanders, no relation, at the time of the 2015 confrontation with activists at Netroots.Sanders was giving his stump speech when he was interrupted by activists demanding he take a harder line on police brutality against blacks.Lis Smith was repping Martin O'Malley, the former governor of Maryland, at the time of the drama.O'Malley was the first to be bombarded that year.He was speaking when an African-American activist stormed the stage and took control of the microphone.Protesters jeered as he declared,
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