Marco Rubio leads Hillary Clinton by 5 points in new Quinnipiac Poll

– A little over four months from North Carolina’s presidential primary, retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson has opened a double-digit lead over the rest of the Republican field, according to an Elon University Poll released Thursday.

“It’s not his thing”. Speaking to George Stephanopoulos’s Good Morning America Wednesday morning, Rubio laughed when a video of Trump attacking him came on. Rubio’s support has improved by 8 percentage points. “I’m not a fan”. “He doesn’t have a chance”, Trump said today. Jeb’s going to have a few weeks of bad polls.

The poll, which surveyed 847 registered voters from October 25-29, also shows that Clinton has an 8-point lead over real estate billionaire Donald Trump, 50 to 42 percent. Among Republicans 18-34, Trump is only at 33 percent to Carson’s 28 percent.

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida got third place in the poll, with 11 percent, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, with 9 percent undecided and 44 percent who might change their mind.

Clinton was the favorite of 53 percent of Democrats, with 35 percent would vote for Sen.

He’s leading the pack for the GOP and carries a 6 percent lead over Clinton with MI voters.

“Is there a doctor in the house?”

The poll is another show of strength for Carson, who has emerged as an unlikely frontrunner for the GOP nomination despite modest debate performances and a series of controversial statements.

But Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota who dropped out of the presidential race early in 2012, told the Washington Post last week that “stragglers” may not be dropping out because of loyal support from smaller campaign operations that require less money.

“Clinton gets crushed on character issues, pounded by Carson and closely challenged by Sen”.

Behind Carson and Trump, Sen.

Trump also loses by double-digits in a hypothetical matchup with Hillary Clinton, with 46 percent of voters favoring her over Trump. Former tech CEO Carly Fiorina garnered 3% and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie just 2%. According to the poll, both Clinton and Sanders would win MI if their opponent is Trump.