Fox News has a new national poll out today that has Donald Trump back on top with Ben Carson nearly tied with him if you consider the 4.5% margin of error. Both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are surging since the last debate, leaving Bush and the rest of the pack at the very bottom:
Here’s more from Fox News:
Here’s a breakdown of what evangelicals and Christians like:
The favorites among white evangelical Christians include Carson (33 percent), Trump (23 percent) and Cruz (12 percent). Those three are also the top picks among the Tea Party movement, although in a different order: Trump (26 percent), Cruz (24 percent) and Carson (19 percent).
This a breakdown of Trump supporters, who they like after Trump. Turns out most of them would go to Carson, not Cruz:
When each primary voter’s first and second-choice preferences are added together, Carson (43 percent) has the edge over Trump (41 percent).
Trump supporters go for Carson (36 percent), Rubio (10 percent), Bush (9 percent), and Cruz (9 percent) as their second-choice picks.
And here’s the poll info:
The Fox News poll is based on landline and cell phone interviews with 1,230 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from November 1-3, 2015. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for all registered voters, and 4 points for Democratic primary voters and 4.5 points for Republican primary voters.