Donald Trump has the support of nearly 50 percent of registered Republican voters, according to a new national poll.
The billionaire businessman took 48 percent of Republican-leaning voters in a new NBC News/SurveyMonkey online tracking poll released Tuesday. That gives Trump a 21 point lead over Ted Cruz, who won 27 percent.
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Kasich moved up two points over the last week, and won 18 percent, and another 7 percent said they didn’t know who to support.
More than half of those polled, 58 percent, said they are “absolutely certain” they will vote for the candidate they selected in their state’s primary or caucus in the general election. Another 57 percent believe that Trump should win the nomination should he win a plurality of delegates, even if he fails to capture the majority needed to officially be the GOP nominee.
The survey also found that among all voters, should Trump and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton be the candidates in November, 45 percent would be satisfied with that. However, another 32 percent said they would seriously consider voting for a third party candidate and another 21 percent said they did not know.
The poll was conducted online from March 21-27, surveying a total sample of 6,521 adults nationwide with an overall margin of error of plus or minus 1.6 percentage points, including 1,611 Republican registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
