New poll: Clinton leads all GOP candidates

Just 4 percent of respondents, meanwhile, said they’d vote for former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who’s also seeking a Democratic White House run.

That’s because a new national MSNBC poll out Friday morning shows that Hillary Clinton beats The Donald soundly in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup! & Clinton leads Ben Carson by just one point, 48 % to 47 %, and she or he holds a 26-point edge amongst Latinos, 61 % to 35 %.

Jeb Bush gets closer to Clinton than Cruz, only four points down, at 45 percent to Clinton’s 49 percent.

Less than a year from the election and weeks away from the first ballots being cast, the 2016 presidential race is shaping up as a tight affair, although Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump continue to poll well ahead of their rivals in the party primaries.

Clinton’s strong lead was apparently the result of new support from Latino voters – suggesting that perhaps Trump’s provocative recent comments about Latino immigrants worked against rather than for him.

The businessman, meanwhile, continued to lead the 2016 GOP field with more than a quarter of likely Republican primary and caucus voters saying they’d support him.

Trump, by 52 percent to 41 percent, and 69 percent to 27 percent with Latinos.

Donald Trump has upped his attacks against Clinton, suggesting most recently that Hillary wants to be president so she can “stay out of jail”, as reported by Real Clear Politics.

Paleologos, however, noted that the loyalty of Trump’s supporters could also impact the presidential contest.

Trump has peppered his campaign with remarks about Mexicans being rapists and drug dealers and he’s promised to build a huge border wall, while deporting 11 million people – policy prescriptions that aren’t exactly popular with your average Latino voter.

Donald Trump is continuing to defy political odds by soaring high above his opponents in the polls and by winning and capturing the attention of this very precocious generation.