Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are ahead in Pennsylvania, new poll shows


Presidential hopeful Donald Trump holds an 18-point lead over Ted Cruz among likely Republican voters in Pennsylvania, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll out Sunday shows. Trump has 45 percent support to Cruz's 27 percent and John Kasich's 24 percent.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders, 55 percent to 40 percent. The margin of error is 4.1 percentage points in the Republican race and 3.6 percentage points in the Democratic race.
Pennsylvania voters head to the polls Tuesday, along with those in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Rhode Island.
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.
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