Ben Carson leads Donald Trump by four points in a new national CBS News/New York Times poll released on Tuesday morning, suggesting that Carson could dislodge Trump as the Republican frontrunner.
Among Republican primary voters, Carson received 26 percent of support while Trump received 22 percent support. The rest of the Republican candidates polled in the single digits: 8 percent of GOP primary voters supported Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), 7 percent supported former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and 7 percent supported Carly Fiorina.
Carson has recently gained on Trump among Republican primary voters. Numerous recent Iowa polls have found Carson unseating Trump as the frontrunner in the key primary state.
CBS/NYT surveyed 575 Republican primary voters via phone Oct. 21-25 with a margin of error plus or minus 6 percentage points.
Please oh please oh please, it’s all I want for Christmas, give me Ben Carson for the GOP nominee …
President Bachmann and President Cain were leading nationally at this point too…
Well, Donald, time to ratchet up the reality-distorting, rightwing-crowd-pleasing stupidity to ever higher levels. You’ve got it in you, I know you do!
Within the extreme GOP primary voters only.
Caitlin, you’re usually not this sloppy: