Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump moved into the top spot among national GOP primary voters in a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday.
In the latest poll, Trump had 27 percent support, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) had 22 percent and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) had 15 percent.
The NBC News/WSJ poll from November showed retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson leading the pack with 29 percent support. At the time, Trump had 23 percent and Rubio had 11 percent.
In the most recent poll, Carson had 11 percent support.
The poll was conducted by phone from Dec. 6 to Dec. 9 among Republican primary voters. Its margin of error was plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
