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Marco Rubio is continuing to rise in Republican presidential polls.
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal national survey released Sunday shows the Florida Senator now tied for third place with Carly Fiorina at 10 percent.
Topping the poll once again is Donald Trump, but barely in this case. Trump is at 21 percent, followed by Ben Carson right behind at 20 percent support.
Following Rubio and Fiorina in fifth place is Jeb Bush at 7 percent. John Kasich is at 6 percent and Ted Cruz at 5 percent. No other Republican gets more than 3 percent.
In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton is the first choice of 42 percent of primary voters, Sanders is in second at 35 percent and Joe Biden third at 17 percent. No other Democrat gets more than 1 percent.
If Biden (who is not running) is removed from the poll, however, Clinton’s lead over Sanders increases to 53-38 percent.
The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Sept. 20-24 of 256 Democratic voters (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 6.1 percentage points) and 230 GOP primary voters (plus-minus 6.5 percentage points).
