Mitch Perry
A new Gravis Marketing poll released on Monday shows New York City real estate titan Donald Trump continuing to have a strong lead in Florida in the Republican race for president, garnering 33.6 percent of the vote. As has been the case throughout the country, Trump has been leading in polls in Florida for well over a month now.
Following the trend in Iowa, New Hampshire and across the country, retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson is in second with 22.4 percent of the vote.
In third place is former Florida Governor Jeb Bush with 15.2 percent of the vote.
There’s then a significant drop to fourth place, held by Carly Florina with 6.2 percent. She’s followed by Ted Cruz at 5.7 percent, Marco Rubio at 5.4 percent and John Kasich at 5.3 percent. Mike Huckabee is at 1.8 percent, and Scott Walker is down to 1.1 percent. Five other candidates get below 1 percent of the vote.
Interestingly, when Republican voters in Florida were asked who they would support if the race were between favorite sons Bush and Rubio, Rubio wins easily, 51-31 percent, with 18 percent undecided.
Hillary Clinton‘s email server problems don’t seem to be affecting her in Florida as in some of the other early states. She leads in the Democratic Primary in Florida with 41.6 percent support, followed by non-candidate Joe Biden at 21.4 percent. Bernie Sanders is third with 12.5 percent.
Gravis conducted a random survey of 1,584 registered voters in Florida between September 5-11, and has a margin of error of ±3% for the 891 Republicans and ± 4% for the 693 Democrats. The total may not round to 100% because of rounding. The polls were conducted using automated telephone calls (IVR technology) and cell phone responses.
