A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found that Donald Trump now trails each of his three remaining Republican rivals in a head-to-head matchup.
The New York businessman’s most successful competitor to date, Ted Cruz, holds a 57 to 40 percent lead nationally in a one-on-one contest. John Kasich leads by the same margin. Statistically speaking, so does Marco Rubio, with a 56 to 43 percent edge.
The Journal has more:
Perhaps more troubling for Mr. Trump: He is the preferred pick among 36% of Republican primary voters in states that have already held nominating contests, but the field looks more jumbled in states that haven’t yet voted. With roughly half of the contests still to come, Mr. Trump is the preferred pick of 27% of likely GOP primary voters in those states, with Mr. Cruz right on his heels, at 25%, followed by Mr. Kasich at 24% and Mr. Rubio at 23%. The poll of 397 Republican primary voters began last Thursday night, hours after 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney delivered a blistering takedown of the Republican front-runner and right in the middle of an unusually contentious candidates’ debate. The survey concluded Sunday, after Mr. Trump lost caucuses in Kansas and Maine while winning contests in Kentucky and Louisiana by closer-than-expected margins.
The survey of 397 Republican primary voters has a margin of error of 4.92 percentage points.
Read about it here.
