Ryan Ray
A new poll released Monday by Monmouth University shows New York businessman Donald Trump continuing to lead Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in his own state.
The poll shows Trump up by 8 points over Rubio, carrying 38 percent of Florida primary voters compared to 30 percent who favor Rubio. A review of the data points out that in fact, Rubio would barely tie Trump in a one-on-one vote, with primary voters preferring Trump 47 to 45 in a head-to-head matchup.
Rubio does lead Trump in South Florida 41 to 30, but that lead evaporates across the rest of the state. Trump leads Rubio by 22 percent, while things grow tighter in North Florida 36 percent to Rubio’s 32 percent.
Trump also enjoys a 48 percent to 23 percent lead among the nearly fifth of all voters who have already cast ballots in Florida.
“Rubio is within shooting distance in his home state with a week to go in this volatile nomination contest,” Monmouth’s Patrick Murray said. “It is telling, though, that Rubio is not even the clear victor in a direct face off with Trump. There goes the argument that Rubio would triumph if only it were a two-person race.”
In the increasingly likely event Trump is nominated, 75 percent of Florida Republicans say they would support him in an Election Day contest against Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton, though 10 percent would defect to Clinton.
The poll was conducted from Thursday through Sunday via telephone among 403 likely Republican primary voters. The margin of error, according to Monmouth, is +4.9 percent.
4 comments
joecoamo
March 7, 2016 at 3:37 pm
How could it be that from a 16 to 20 lead it comes down to 8?? especially after all the betrayal this rubio guy has done to the ppl of florida??
joecoamo
March 7, 2016 at 3:40 pm
the guy voted for tuition for illegals, he voted for the so called refugees t come, he was the 60th vote on obamatrade and gave power to that traitor, he lead the effort for amnesty and STILL is for it, he voted AGAINST defunding sanctuary cities.. and this is WHEN he decides to show.. he’s NEVER there to vote and when he does he votes against us?!?! what the hell??!! no to mention his credit card scandal that he always tried to downplay.. it’s unfreakinbelievable..
Jake
March 7, 2016 at 3:51 pm
I’m confused about early vote stats…saw multiple reports its was Rubio up over Trump. Is the Trump lead correct?
Maxwell
March 7, 2016 at 11:09 pm
Today’s Monmouth Poll for Florida is seriously flawed.
Florida has a ‘closed primary’ ..and of the 403 people that Monmouth had polled ..83 were Independents and not eligible to vote in the Florida Republican primary.
That would explain why the results were so different than other Florida polls.
http://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/32212254770/32212254991/32212254992/32212254994/32212254995/30064771087/c6781dce-1a50-4f9e-bdf3-69388f5a110f.pdf
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