Poll: Trump
has 15-point lead over Cruz in Ind., Heidi M
Przybyla, USA TODAY, 5/1/16
Republican front-runner Donald
Trump holds a 15-point
lead over Ted
Cruz in Indiana, which
holds its primary on Tuesday, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street
Journal/Marist poll.
Trump leads with
49% to Cruz’s 34%, while Ohio Governor John
Kasich is behind both
with 13%.
The Democratic race in Indiana is
closer, with Hillary
Clinton holding a
four-point lead over
Bernie Sanders , who’s fallen far behind in the pledged delegates
needed to clinch the nomination and has begun to lay off hundreds of staff.
With Trump pulling away from Cruz and
Kasich in the delegate count, the two teamed up to try to deny Trump the 1,237
delegates needed to win the nomination outright, forcing a contested
convention. Kasich largely ceded the state by focusing his resources in other
contests on the calendar, including Oregon and Washington.
The poll found that alliance may
be ineffective, with 58% of voters disapproving of the alliance. Still,
63% say it will not affect their vote.
In a general election matchup, Trump
leads Clinton by 7 points in the Hoosier state while he has a single digit
advantage over Democrat Bernie Sanders.
Meanwhile, another Indiana poll showed
the opposite in the GOP race.
The poll from
the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics gave Cruz a significant lead
and the support of 45% of those surveyed to Trump's 29% and
Kasich's 13%.
But 13% of
Hoosier voters surveyed said they didn't who they would support, and the poll
had a 5% margin of error, which could mean a neck-and-neck race.
"I can
understand this might be an incredibly optimistic poll for Cruz," said
Andy Downs, director of the politics center. "But I think there must be
something going on in the electorate that makes the race closer than some
people think."
Contributing: Stephanie Wang, Indianapolis
Star
Trump
trouncing in Calif. by 34 points: Poll, Donovan Slack,
USA TODAY. 5/2/16
Donald Trump is leading Ted
Cruz by a whopping 34
percentage points — 54%-20% — among likely Republican voters in California, a SurveyUSA poll for KUSA found.
That’s a
significant gain for the Republican frontrunner, whose lead was only 8
percentage points in the last SurveyUSA poll a
month ago. And it’s a significant loss for Cruz. The two were 40%-32% last
month.
California,
which holds its primary June 7, is the most delegate-rich state on the
Republican primary calendar with 172 at stake for GOP hopefuls.
That makes
Indiana, which will award 57 delegates after its primary Tuesday, all that much
more important for Cruz if he wants to stop Trump from reaching the 1,237
delegates he needs to clinch the nomination. In the most recent poll, though, he is trailing by 15
percentage points in the Hoosier State.
On the Democratic side, the SurveyUSA
poll gives Hillary
Clinton a 57%-38% lead
over
Bernie Sanders in
California. In general election match-ups, she beats Trump 56%-34% and
Cruz 57%-29%. California has not sided with a Republican for president since
George H.W. Bush in 1988.
SurveyUSA polled
2,011 registered voters in California from April 27 to April 30.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/05/02/trump-trouncing-calif-34-points-poll/83847098/
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