Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who drew nearly 10,000 supporters to a campaign rally in the Midwest in early July, is now within 7 points of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton in Iowa, according to a Des Moines Register poll released Saturday.

Since May, Clinton has dropped from being the first choice candidate of roughly 60 percent of left-leaning voters in Iowa to just 37 percent, according to the latest poll. Meanwhile, the fiery socialist senator from Vermont has rapidly gained support in the early primary state and is now the preferred Democratic candidate among 30 percent of voters.

The report notes that this is the first time Clinton has dropped below 50 percent support in Iowa in the four polls that the Register and Bloomberg Politics have so far conducted during the current election cycle.

“This feels like 2008 all over again,” J. Ann Selzer, president of the Iowa-based public research firm responsible for commissioning the poll, told the Register.

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