Ben Carson Now Leading Republican Field In A New National Poll

Ben Carson Now Leading Republican Field In A New National Poll

by Janie Velencia at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/carson-leading-national-poll_562f8c9de4b00aa54a4b27d5?utm_hp_ref=politics

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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has moved ahead of real estate magnate Donald Trump, taking first place in the Republican presidential field in a new CBS/New York Times national poll released Tuesday.



The retired neurosurgeon now leads with 26 percent of the vote, to Trump's 22 percent. The results are within the poll's 6 percent margin of error, but a four percentage point difference represents a high likelihood that Carson is in fact in the lead.



The rest of the Republican candidates only managed to pull in single-digit support. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) drew 8 percent of the vote, while both former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina got 7 percent. Support for all other candidates was at or below 4 percent.



According to HuffPost Pollster's national chart, which aggregates all available polls, Trump continues to lead Carson by 7 points. Since the new CBS/NYT poll is the only recent one to show Carson in first place, it has not swayed the overall HuffPost Pollster trend.



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