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[h=4]Polls: Rubio crushed in Florida by Trump, while Kasich poses Ohio threat[/h]Trump leads Rubio two-to-one in Florida, but Kasich fared better in his home state.
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A recent poll shows that Donald Trump is ahead of Sen. Marco Rubio in Florida and Gov. John Kasich in Ohio ahead of next week's primaries.Video provided by Newsy Newslook
Donald Trump trounced Marco Rubio in a new Florida poll, with Trump receiving twice the support of Rubio in the senator's own state.
In the new Quinnipiac poll, 45% of likely Republican primary voters sided with Trump while 22% of Rubio’s own constituents who were surveyed supported him.
Analysts have called Florida’s winner-take-all primary on March 15 a “last stand” for Rubio’s flagging campaign, which has faced attack ads in the state by both Trump and a super PAC backing Ted Cruz.
Seemingly undaunted, Rubio has promised he’ll win his home state, along with its 99 delegates.
Elsewhere in the Florida poll, Ted Cruz came in at 18% with John Kasich at 8%.
Marco Rubio, left, and John Kasich.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: EPA/AP)
Kasich, the governor of Ohio, found a bigger home-state bump than Rubio in another poll by Quinnipiac, but still not enough to top Trump.
This one has Trump ahead of Kasich by 6 percentage points, and another Ohio poll by CNN gives the same edge to the New York real estate tycoon.
Kasich has banked the future of his presidential bid on winning Ohio’s 66 delegates. The state holds its winner-take-all primary also on March 15 with Florida and three other key states.
Cruz nabbed 16% of voters in Quinnipiac’s Ohio poll, with Rubio taking 9%
“The effort within the Republican Party to stop Donald Trump from winning the presidential nomination appears unlikely to stop him from taking Florida's delegate-rich winner-take-all primary,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
“But that effort might have a better chance of success in Ohio where Gov. John Kasich is giving ‘The Donald’ a tougher run for his money.”
The Quinnipiac polls, taken March 2<span style="color: Red;">*</span>through March 7, has a margin of error of +/- 3.8 for the Florida poll and +/- 3.7 for the one in Ohio.
The CNN poll, taken March 2 through March 6, has a margin of error of +/- 5 percentage points.
Follow Josh Hafner on Twitter:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>@joshhafner
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