On the day of the Indiana primary, which could prove to be a make or break for Ted Cruz, a new poll finds a high percentage of Republican voters want the Texas senator to end his presidential bid.
According to a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday, 41 percent of GOP voters think Cruz should remain in the race for the GOP nomination, compared to 42 percent who think he should drop out.
An even greater percentage of Republican voters (56 percent) said Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who trails GOP front-runner Donald Trump by more than 800 delegates, should end his White House bid.
Kasich and Cruz are both mathematically incapable of securing the 1,237 delegates needed to win the GOP nomination through the primaries and caucuses that remain. The two candidates’ campaigns are hoping for an open convention in July for a shot at the nomination.
Democratic voters were far more reluctant to say that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who trails Hillary Clinton by a combined total of more than 800 pledged delegates and superdelegates, should exit the 2016 race.
Thirty-five percent of Democrats said Sanders should remain in the race, while 31 percent said he should drop out. An additional 26 percent of
Democratic voters said the socialist senators should launch a third-party bid – an idea Donald Trump floated on Twitter just last week.
The survey of 1,000 likely U.S. voters was conducted April 27-28. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus 3 percent.
