Polls show close GOP race in Iowa, NH with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio at the top
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Three weeks until the first presidential primary and Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are running neck and neck in Iowa with Trump holding a big lead over Florida Senator Marco Rubio in New Hampshire.
The NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll gives Cruz 28% in Iowa to Trump’s 24%, with Rubio in third at 13% and Ben Carson in fourth at 11%. The Feb. 1 Iowa caucus kicks off the election process and no other GOP candidate registered more than 5% in this poll.
Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, which holds a GOP primary Feb. 9, Trump comes in at 30%, well ahead of Rubio at 14%. Chris Christie, who has made New Hampshire pretty much a make-or-break state for his campaign, is third at 12% in the new poll, followed by Cruz (10%). John Kasich and Jeb Bush are tied for fifth in the Granite State at 9% each, according to the poll.
“That means that the four Republicans vying in the establishment lane of the GOP contest — Rubio, Christie, Kasich and Bush — are dividing up 44% of the total vote,” the poll said.
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