Ben Carson has overtaken Donald Trump in national polling for the first time since the businessman entered the race.
The retired neurosurgeon edged out Trump in a new CBS News/New York Times survey of Republican primary voters, released Tuesday.
Carson earned 26 percent of the vote, while Trump garnered 22 percent — within the margin of error of 6 percentage points.
Support for Carson has quadrupled in the poll since August.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio came in third with 8 percent, followed by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former CEO Carly Fiorina with 7 percent each.
All other candidates received 4 percent or lower.
However, the state of the 2016 GOP race is still very much in flux — seven in 10 Republican primary voters surveyed said that it is too early to say for sure that their mind is made up about which candidate they will vote for.
The telephone-based survey of 575 likely Republican primary voters was conducted Oct. 21-25 with a margin of error of plus or minus 6 percentage points.
Though Carson led the field in a June Monmouth University poll, that was just before Trump entered the race and began dominating polling.
