Despite lagging in support among Republican primary voters, Ohio Gov. John Kasich currently is the GOP’s best chance by far against Hillary Clinton in the November election, a new national poll found.
The USA Today / Suffolk University poll, released Wednesday, found Kasich would beat Clinton 49 percent to 38 percent in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup. The next-closest Republican candidate is Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who the poll shows leading Clinton 48 percent to 42 percent.
The poll showed businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as being neck-and-neck with Clinton, 44 percent to 43 percent, and 45 to 44 percent, respectively. The margin of error for the poll, conducted between Feb. 11 and Feb. 15, is plus or minus 3 percent.
But Kasich does not fare so well with likely Republican primary voters, who actually will pick the Republican presidential candidate. In this group, Kasich polled at 7 percent, good for fourth place in the six-candidate primary race. Trump received 35 percent, followed by Cruz (20 percent), Rubio (16 percent), former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (6 percent) and Dr. Ben Carson (4 percent).
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