Businessman Donald Trump holds steady as the leading presidential candidate among likely Republican voters while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to outrun her lingering challengers in the party with the nation’s likely Democratic voters according to the Saint Leo University Polling Institute.
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Clinton also is ahead of Texas Senator Ted Cruz by 7 percent, according to the poll. She has a four-point advantage over Republican Jeb Bush, with Bush at 45 percent to Clinton’s 49 percent, and a 26-point lead among Latinos, 61 percent to 35 percent, reports NBC News. “Both Senators Cruz and Rubio are vying hard to be the Republican alternative to Trump, but there are seventeen percent undecided still, which keeps the door open for one of the single-digit candidates to a make a splash in Iowa or New Hampshire and shake the race up further”, Suffolk poll director David Paleologos said in a statement Tuesday. The margin of error for answers from the above subgroup is plus or minus 8 percentage points.
In that scenario, 45 percent of voters select Rubio, while 48 percent choose Clinton.
Meanwhile, Trump led with 27 percent among likely Republican primary/caucus voters, followed by Sen.
Clinton, who rolled out her MA leadership team this week, had a minus-15 favorability rating and Trump was at minus-30.
The MSNBC/Telemundo/Marist poll looked at the preferences of Latino voters too and found the community to be swaying heavily in favor of the Democratic frontrunner.
Clinton, 48.9 percent, vs. Trump, 41.2 percent.
On the Democratic side, it’s not much of a contest at all.
Clinton, 47.3 percent, vs. Bush, 37.9 percent. Dr. Ben Carson now sits at 13.6 percent, down from 22.2 percent.
Clinton, 55.2 percent, vs. former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina, 29.7 percent.
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Today’s Suffolk University/USA TODAY national poll reveals that they have good reason to fear him, although the contender from Florida doesn’t nick the. margin for error above and beyond his same-party rivals.
