Republican presidential contender Donald Trump is scheduled to make a campaign stop in Columbus Monday night.
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Then again, Clinton – who commands 55 percent support among Democratic primary voters, easily outpacing Bernie Sanders (32 percent) and Martin O’Malley (3 percent) – trails all top-tier Republicans in hypothetical 2016 face-offs. At the same time, rival candidates are swift to focus on any conspicuous or imagined flaw of these within the lead.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson looks like he may be losing a few steam in a slew of recent national and state polls that have shown clear warning signs for his candidacy. All other candidates were in single digits.
Marco Rubio maintains the largest margin of victory over the Democratic presidential candidate, and would beat Clinton today 50-42, according to the poll.
Carson continues to be the preferred candidate of white evangelicals, although his support among the group has dropped to 25 percent from 33 percent. That put him below Trump, whose support sits at 28% in the poll, and Cruz, who garnered 21%.
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While Iowa’s Republicans generally feel Trump is ready to be commander-in-chief, Cruz scores even better on this measure, boosted by support from very conservative and Tea Party Iowans who feel he is ready to assume the post. Republican men and women also prefer Trump by seven points to his nearest competitor. The sample included 2,440 Republican voters and independent voters who lean Republican and 1,983 Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters. Ted Cruz, R-Tx., for recently proposing that the USA only take in Christian refugees, and Ben Carson, for recently comparing Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs”. The ballot tests were split sampled, which means each question was only asked of half the sample and those results have a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. NBC News’ Data Analytics Lab produced the poll in conjunction with Penn’s Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies. A full description of our methodology and the poll can be found here.
