New Quinnipiac Poll: Trump/Carson in deadlock

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

Bush campaign communications director Tim Miller anticipated the poor showing in a tweet this week: “FYI political press corps”.

No other Republican candidate obtained more than 10 percent support in the poll. National security is in second place with 26%, followed by immigration with 15% and 7% for social issues.

Among Democrats, Clinton gets 53-percent, with Senator Bernie Sanders at 35-percent and 9-percent undecided. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) following closely behind at 11 percent.

In a telling sign of how topsy-turvy the Republican race still is, a full 63 percent of respondents said they might change their mind.

The poll also finds that Hillary Clinton easily beats U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz 46 to 43 percent; and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie 46 to 41 percent.

Throughout his presidential campaign, the NY businessman has attacked the opponent seen as his biggest challenger, first Bush and then Carson, both of whom Trump said lack the “energy” needed to conduct the presidency. Marco Rubio by three points, 47 to 44. A plethora of candidates earned negative numbers in the single and double digits: Clinton (-10), Kentucky Sen. Jim Gilmore (-18) and SC Sen. Voters say 58 – 39 percent that Trump does not have the right experience, the two lowest grades among top candidates. More than half of men voters said they’d support Carson, compared to just over a third who said they’d back Clinton.

But Carson’s support has been steadily growing over the past month, and the soft-spoken doctor overtook the brash former reality TV star when Quinnipiac’s new poll showing a toss-up race was added into the mix.

The poll surveyed 476 registered Republican voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

The CNN/ORC global survey gave Trump 25 percent and Carson 23 percent among likely Iowa GOP caucus goers, within the poll’s 4-percentage-point margin of error.