Trump bumps favorite sons Bush and Rubio out of the lead in Florida: a fluke?
聽appears to show the Trump phenomenon knocking both of the Sunshine State鈥檚 best known Republicans out of the top spot:
For the first time this year, Donald Trump tops a state poll of GOP presidential candidates in Florida.
聽released on Wednesday shows the New York businessman with 26 percent support, with Jeb Bush in second place with 20 percent.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is in third place with 12 percent, and Marco Rubio is in fourth place with 10 percent. He鈥檚 followed by Dr. Ben Carson at 5 percent, Ted Cruz and John Kasich at 4 percent, and Rand Paul at 3 percent. Sixteen percent are unsure or are supporting another candidate not named in the survey.
This is only the second poll out of Florida since Trump entered the race. The first such poll,聽, showed Bush in the lead with 28%, followed by Rubio at 16%, Walker at 13%, and Trump in fourth place at 11%. It鈥檚 possible, then, that this new poll is an outlier. At the same time, though, it is consistent with other statewide and national polling that puts Trump at the top of the field, so it shouldn鈥檛 be lightly dismissed.
Doug Mataconis appears on the Outside the Beltway blog at http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/.
