Thirty-seven percent of Republican primary voters say Trump is the candidate most likely to beat Clinton than Carson with 18% and 11% for Rubio.
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Aside from that, the recent poll also shows that Bernie Sanders would be able to win over Trump with 50 percent versus 41 percent.
The survey of 548 likely GOP caucusgoers was conducted October 29 through November 4 via landlines and cellphones with a margin of error of 4 points. No other candidate gets more than 3 percent.
Trump said that Rubio is soft on illegal immigration, has made questionable decisions on his personal finances, and has missed too many votes in the U.S. Senate. The only comparable Republican is New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who gets 17 percent of black voters against Clinton. Trump garnered 24 percent of support, while Carson received 23 percent.
With just a year to go before the 2016 presidential election, a new Quinnipiac University National Poll found Carson and Trump essentially tied, with each receiving around a quarter of the vote in the race for the Republican nomination. 44-percent of Democratic voters say they might change their mind. Rubio, who has made foreign policy a central part of his campaign and stressed his experience on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was third at 31 percent.
A theoretical matchup between Clinton and Ben Carson would end in a tie.
Carson led the field with 27 percent when respondents were asked which candidate would be best on social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. Trump’s favorable rating was 37 percent and his unfavorable rating was 56 percent. That included Tuesday interviews and a book-signing event at Trump Tower, during which he suggested Carson didn’t have the “temperament” to be president. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas had negative approval ratings, they also had fewer people who formed opinions about them. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones.
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Up to 19 percent of the voters are still undecided, according to the poll, which has a 4 percent margin of error.
