Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton both lead their opponents by double digits in New York, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Monday.
Trump, who’s anticipating a massive audience at his campaign rally Monday night in Albany, N.Y., has the support of 54 percent of Republican voters in his home state ahead of New York’s April 19 primary.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Trump’s closest competitor in the Empire State, trails him by more than 30 percentage points at 21 percent support. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz follows with 18 percent support.
A majority of Republican voters in Trump’s home state also believe the Manhattan billionaire should be nominated for president if he arrives at the convention with the most delegates but falls short of the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination outright. Only 28 percent of New York Republicans think the GOP should nominate a different candidate under the aforementioned circumstances.
On the Democratic side, Clinton leads Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by 14 percentage points, 55 to 41 percent.
The same survey suggests the former secretary of state would struggle, however, to win over Sanders’ supporters in New York as she secures the Democratic nomination. Nearly a third of Sanders’ backers in the Empire State said they wouldn’t vote for Clinton in the general election, compared to 15 percent of Clinton’s supporters who wouldn’t support Sanders as the Democratic nominee.
The NBC/WSJ/Marist poll of 1,987 registered voters was conducted April 6-10. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.
