Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both hold double-digit leads over their rivals in Maryland, according to a new poll.
Trump won 41 percent of Republican primary voters, according to a new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll released Thursday. Ohio Gov. John Kasich won 31 percent, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won 22 percent.
A March poll of Maryland from The Baltimore Sun and the University of Baltimore found Trump with a similar commanding lead over the GOP field, though it was over Cruz, not Kasich.
Among Democrats, Clinton leads Bernie Sanders, 55 percent to 40 percent. In last month’s Baltimore Sun/University of Baltimore poll, Clinton had a much bigger lead — 61 percent to 28 percent.
Maryland is a reliably blue state, so in a hypothetical general election, it is no surprise that the poll found Clinton would beat Trump by a huge margin: 63-28.
Maryland’s April 26 primary has 38 total GOP delegates, and 118 total Democratic delegates. Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania also hold their contents on that day.
The telephone-based poll was conducted March 30-April 3 and carries an overall margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Among the 283 likely Republican voters surveyed, the margin of error is plus or minus 7.5 percentage points, while among the 539 likely Democratic voters surveyed, the margin of error is plus or minus 5.5 percentage points.
