Donald Trump marks a new high in the race for the Republican nomination, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, with more than 4 in 10 Republican voters nationwide now saying they back the billionaire, and more than two-thirds of Republicans saying he's the candidate most likely to capture their party's nomination for president.
Trump tops the 40% mark for the first time in CNN/ORC polling, standing at 41% in the new poll. That more than doubles the support of his nearest competitor, Ted Cruz, who notches 19% support in the poll. No other candidate hits double-digits. Marco Rubio lands at 8%, Ben Carson at 6%, Jeb Bush at 5%, Chris Christie at 4%, and the rest at 3% or less.
Despite the new high-mark for Trump, it is important to note that those figures represent very little change compared with the most recent CNN/ORC poll in late December. In that poll, Trump stood at 39%, Cruz at 18% and Rubio at 10%. Ben Carson's 4-point dip between the two surveys is the largest change in the field, and even it is not large enough to be a statistically significant change given the new poll's 5 point margin of sampling error.
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