Poll: Trump, Clinton boast big leads in New York
New Yorkers Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both boast double-digit leads in the state, according to a NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released on Monday, as the two frontrunners try to shake off recent bruising losses.
The Manhattan billionaire has the support of 54 percent of Republican voters surveyed, while Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 21 percent and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has 18 percent. Trump is hoping to haul in a big number of delegates after being outfoxed by Cruz in a number of states. In order to win all of New York’s 95 delegates, Trump would have to win at least 50 percent statewide and each of the 27 congressional districts.
More than half of New York Republicans surveyed (64 percent) say that Trump should still win the nomination even if he doesn’t hit 1,237 delegates on the first vote at the Republican National Convention in July. Twenty-eight percent believe someone else should be nominated under those circumstances.
On the Democratic side, Clinton (who was a U.S. senator from New York) has the support of 55 percent of likely Democratic voters, compared to 41 percent for Bernie Sanders. Clinton is striving to break Sanders’ hot streak at next week’s primary in New York, after the Vermont senator won eight of the last nine contests.
The poll also found that roughly one third (30 percent) of likely Democratic voters who back Sanders say that they wouldn’t vote for the former secretary of state in a general election, while 15 percent of Clinton backers would not vote for Sanders.
The telephone poll of 259 likely Republican primary voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 6.1 percentage points. The poll of 557 likely Democratic primary voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points. The survey was conducted April 6-10.