Poll: Clinton would beat Trump and Cruz, but lose to Carson and Rubio
Hillary Clinton should be rooting for Donald Trump or Ted Cruz to snag the Republican nomination, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds.
The Democratic frontrunner would beat Trump 50 percent to 40 percent in a national matchup, and she tops Cruz by a narrower margin of 48 percent to 45 percent. If Ben Carson or Marco Rubio is the GOP nominee, however, the same poll sees a Republican triumph. Carson beats Clinton 47 to 46 percent nationwide, and Rubio widens the gap, winning with 48 to 45 percent.
However, it's worth noting that the poll's margin of error is 3.36 percent, which means that all the comparisons except the Clinton vs. Trump match are statistical ties.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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