Marco Rubio Dips Slightly In NH Tracking Poll, Tying With Ted Cruz

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks at a caucus night celebration, Monday, Feb. 1, 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican presidential pack in New Hampshire by a wide margin, but Sen. Marco Rubio’s surge to second place nearly disappeared in a tracking poll released by the University of Massachusetts Lowell on Monday.

Trump leads his competitors by 21 points, earning 34 percent support from likely Republican primary voters. The real estate mogul’s support in the tracking poll has dropped 4 percentage points since the beginning of last week.

After jumping to second place in the tracking poll with 15 percent support at the end of last week, Rubio has dropped by 2 percentage points since Friday, earning 13 percent support in the Monday poll.

The Florida senator tied for second place with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who dropped one point since Friday in the UMass tracking poll.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich both earned 10 percent support in the poll released on Monday.

According to TPM’s Polltracker Average, Trump leads in New Hampshire with 31.2 percent, followed by Rubio with 16.7, Cruz with 12.4, and Kasich with 12.4.

UMass conducted the poll for Boston news station WHDH. UMass surveyed 464 likely Republican primary voters Feb. 5-7 via phone with a margin of error plus or minus 5.13 percentage points.

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  2. Avatar for sandyh sandyh says:

    Now there is an accomplishment that only a GOP presidential candidate would point to as showing strength. Tying with Ted Cruz. It doesn’t get any better than that?

  3. Avatar for sandyh sandyh says:

    Oh, shut up, HAL. Let Matt Damon figure it out. Marco the Robot sure isn’t any rocket scientist. He doesn’t believe in science or even evolution. isn’t even much of a presidential candidate either.

    No wonder Trump jumped into the GOP race. It’s like playing video games with babies who can’t hold their controllers. Christie could conduct a more convincing campaign from a federal penitentiary cell.

  4. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    But wasn’t it just last week that Marco was surging, surging, surging behind Trump? Oh, that was last week’s headline.

    Now, after the debate will we hear that Crispy is surging? Take a moment to think about that. Yeah, it’s a grotesque sight, isn’t it?

  5. I am thinking that Marco may have been wired with earphones and was being prompted from offstage. There was a romantic scene like this with Steve Martin in Roxanne.

    If he wasn’t wired, Marco came across as intellectually lazy and programmed like a cheap Tickle-me Elmo toy after that replay-rewind incident in the Republican debate.

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