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Donald Trump is only narrowly leading Ohio Gov. John Kasich in the Ohio Republican Primary although he holds a substantial lead over his rivals among Florida Republicans
Hillary Clinton is leading Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by more than 30 points, according to the CNN Poll of Polls averages
Donald Trump is narrowly leading Ohio Gov. John Kasich in his state’s Republican primary although the GOP front-runner holds a substantial lead over his rivals in Florida, according to analysis from CNN’s Poll of Polls released Friday.
Hillary Clinton is leading Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by more than 30 points in the Florida Democratic primary, that same analysis shows.
Ohio and Florida voters go to the polls Tuesday.
In Ohio, Trump has support from 36% of voters while Kasich has 34%. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has 17% while Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is at 8%.
Trump has a much more substantial lead heading into the Florida Republican primary with 40%, according to most recent CNN Poll of Polls averages. He is ahead of Rubio, who is attracting 26% of the vote, by double digits. Cruz has 18% of the vote and Kasich is at 8%.
On the Democratic side, Clinton is leading Sanders by more than 30 points in Florida. The former Secretary of State has 62% of support while Sanders has 31% of the vote.
The analysis for Florida’s Republican primary Poll of Polls comes from an average of the results of the six most recent Florida polls among likely Republican primary voters. The Poll of Polls includes: The Suffolk University Poll conducted March 7-9; the Fox News Poll conducted March 5-8; the Quinnipiac University Poll conducted March 2-7; the Monmouth University Poll conducted March 3-6; the CNN/ORC Poll conducted March 2-6 and the Washington Post/Univision Poll conducted March 2-5. The poll of polls does not have a margin of sampling error.
The analysis for CNN’s Poll of Polls for Ohio’s GOP primary comes from the results of the three most recent Ohio polls among likely Republican primary voters. Those surveys include: The Fox News Poll conducted March 5-8; the Quinnipiac University Poll conducted March 2-7 and the CNN/ORC Poll conducted March 2-6. The poll of polls does not have a margin of sampling error.
The analysis for CNN’s Poll of Polls is an average of the results of the three most recent Florida polls among likely Democratic primary voters. The Poll of Polls includes: The Quinnipiac University Poll conducted March 2-7; the CNN/ORC Poll conducted March 2-6 and the Washington Post/Univision Poll conducted March 2-5. The poll of polls does not have a margin of sampling error.
There was not enough recent polling data on Ohio Democrats to provide a CNN Poll of Polls for those primary voters.
