Posted on 02/19/2016 4:05:57 AM PST by BigEdLB
Donald Trump is now leading Saturday's South Carolina Republican primary by 5 points â down from his 16-point lead in the state a month ago, according to results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.
Trump gets support from 28 percent of likely Republican primary voters in the state, while Ted Cruz gets 23 percent. They're followed by Marco Rubio at 15 percent, Jeb Bush at 13 percent, and John Kasich and Ben Carson at 9 percent each.
Find the full GOP poll results from South Carolina here.
In the January NBC/WSJ/Marist poll â conducted before this month's Iowa and New Hampshire contests â Trump held a 16-point over Cruz, 36 percent to 20 percent, with Rubio at 14 percent and Bush at 9 percent.
All other recent public polling in South Carolina has shown Trump with a strong double-digit lead in the state.
In South Carolina's Democratic primary â which will be held on Feb. 27 â Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders among likely voters by 28 points, 60 percent to 32 percent. That's down slightly from Clinton's 64 percent to 27 percent advantage last month.
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At this point Cruz will be lucky if he comes in second and not third.
Stop lying. Trump is 100% pro-life. He didn’t defend abortion just didn’t condemn other health services in PP, said he would choose justice likely to overturn Roe v. Wade.
And he also donated to Ted Cruz, does that make him a snake-oil salesman?
I think that would have been a bigger issue, IF Sanders wasn’t doing so well.
I suspect a good chunk of potential crossover voters wont cross over because of the potential to effect the Democratic nomination.
Just get the SC Primary over and move on to Nevada.
Just more ammunition for all the Keyboard Kamikaze’s.
Que, sara sara...
“In the January NBC/WSJ/Marist poll - conducted before this month’s Iowa and New Hampshire contests -”
Was wrong too.
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