Every Democrat running for president falls into 1 of these 5 groups based on who supports them

• There are 17 major candidates currently competing for the Democratic primary nomination, and the leading candidates will be aggressively poaching other candidates' supporters.
• To help make sense of where all the 2020 Democratic candidates stand, Insider has been conducting a recurring SurveyMonkey Audience national poll since December 2018.
• We're interested in using our polling to figure out who a given candidate's supporters would flock to if their first choice quit the race.
• All 17 candidates can be placed into one of five groups based on which of the current other top-tier candidates their supporters would be most satisfied with as the nominee.
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There are 17 major candidates currently competing for the Democratic primary nomination. And with the first primary contests just a few months away, the leading candidates will be aggressively poaching other candidates' supporters.

To help make sense of where all the 2020 Democratic candidates stand, Insider has been conducting a recurring SurveyMonkey Audience national poll since December 2018. You can download every poll here, down to the individual respondent data.

Read more about how the Insider 2020 Democratic primary tracker works.

At this point in the race where we're likely to see more candidates running out of money and dropping out, we're interested in using our polling to figure out who a given candidate's supporters would flock to if their first choice quit the race.

Read more: The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who would benefit most if these 13 mid-tier contenders dropped out of the race

All 17 candidates can be placed into one of the following groups based on which of the current other top-tier candidates their supporters would be most satisfied with as the nominee.

• The three leading candidates in Democratic primary polls.
• Candidates whose supporters have high levels of satisfaction with former Vice President Joe Biden.
• 2020 contenders whose supporters would be satisfied with Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Biden as the nominees.
• Candidates whose backers would be highly satisfied with Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders as the nominee.
• Contenders whose supporters would be most satisfied with Warren and Sen. Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.

Here's a closer look at which candidates make up all five groups: