Sen. Marco Rubio has cut into Donald Trump’s lead in Florida, according to a new poll.
In a new Monmouth University poll released Monday, eight days before the Sunshine State’s March 15 primary, Rubio trails Trump by only eight points, 38 percent to 30 percent.
In other polls, Trump has held double-digit leads. A Public Policy Polling survey released last month gave Trump a 20-point lead over Rubio in the senator’s home-state.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won 17 percent of the GOP vote in the new poll, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich won 10 percent.
Among the one in five Florida voters who have already cast their ballots, Rubio leads Trump 48 percent to 23 percent. That should provide some comfort to the Rubio campaign, which has trailed in the candidate’s home state for months.
However, among those who haven’t voted, Trump leads 42-26.
In a hypothetical head-to-head vote between the two, Trump edges Rubio 47-45 percent. Florida is a winner-take-all state, and the winner will earn 99 delegates.
The telephone poll of 403 likely Florida Republican presidential primary voters was conducted March 3-6 and marries a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
