Donald Trump and Ben Carson are tied for first place in new online poll results released Friday by
NBC News.
Ted Cruz broke into the double digits for the first time since after the first Republican debate in Cleveland in August. Cruz also performed the best in Wednesday's CNBC debate, according to the respondents, while Jeb Bush did the worst.
The results:
- Donald Trump and Ben Carson: 26 percent.
- Ted Cruz: 10 percent.
- Marco Rubio: 9 percent.
- Jeb Bush: 5 percent.
- Carly Fiorina: 4 percent.
- Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich and Rand Paul: 2 percent.
- All other candidates: 0 percent.
In other results, respondents thought these candidates did the best in Wednesday's debate:
- Cruz: 24 percent.
- Rubio: 20 percent
- Trump 17 percent.
- Carson: 15 percent.
- Fiorina: 7 percent.
- Bush, Christie: 2 percent.
- Lindsey Graham, Huckabee, Kasich and Paul: 1 percent.
- None of the candidates: 8 percent.
As for who fared the worst, respondents thought it was Jeb Bush at whopping 38 percent. Among other candidates:
- Trump: 9 percent.
- Paul: 6 percent.
- Graham, Kasich: 5 percent.
- eorge Pataki: 4 percent.
- Christie, Fiorina: 3 percent.
- Rick Santorum, Carson, Huckabee, Rubio: 2 percent.
- Bobby Jindal, Cruz: 1 percent.
- None of the candidates: 14 percent.
The national online poll of 8,706 adults was conducted by SurveyMonkey from Tuesday to Thursday. It has a margin of error of 1.5 percent.
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