Posted on 04/12/2016 5:55:53 PM PDT by dennisw
There's just two points separating Hillary Clinton from Republican Donald Trump according to a new general election tracking poll The poll also shows the discord among Republicans with only about half of Trump and Ted Cruz's vowing to support the other GOP candidate
Primary polling has Trump comfortably ahead of his Republican rivals, while Clinton bests Bernie Sanders by six points
A new poll from NBC News shows a highly competitive race between frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton come November.
In a head-to-head match-up, the new NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll shows Clinton with 38 percent support and Trump with 36 percent support from registered voters, for a difference of two, which is just slightly outside the poll's error estimate of plus or minus 1.3 percent.
Another 16 percent would prefer to vote for a third-party candidate, while 8 percent would stay home.
Sen. Ted Cruz, who has the second-most amount of delegates on the Republican side, is also competitive against Clinton, though the race isn't nearly as tight.
In a hypothetical Clinton-Cruz match-up, the Texas senator receives 32 percent, while Clinton scores five points higher at 37 percent.
Additionally, another 19 percent would vote for a third-party candidate, while 10 percent would sit at home on Election Day.
The poll showcased the divisive nature of the GOP primary, which is likely to be settled at a contested convention in Cleveland in July.
Of respondents who said they supported Cruz, only a little more than half said they would support Trump in the general election – 56 percent.
A full quarter, 26 percent, said they would look for a third-party candidate, though Cruz's Republicans would not really drift to Clinton, with only 6 percent saying they'd support the former secretary of state.
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There are 858 still available delegates
Trump needs 482 delegates or roughly 56%
Cruz needs 692 delegates were 80% of the delegates remaining
Cruz loss in a general is his appeal.
Cruz hasn’t even been vetted yet.
This poll makes no sense other than a very heavy “Anybody But Clinton” vote.
How many delegates are left to get before July?
The polls that show Trump competitive for the general are just as meaningless as those that showed him not competitive. You’ll have an election decided within 5 points...and NO poll has any validity five months out, before the campaign has even started.
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