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GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson. (AP)
They have a combined zero years of experience in elective office, but Donald Trump and Ben Carson are<span style="color: Red;">*</span>now way<span style="color: Red;">*</span>out in front in the critical early voting state of Iowa, according to a poll out Monday.
A Monmouth University poll of likely Iowa GOP caucusgoers found the billionaire real estate developer and retired pediatric neurosurgeon each with 23% support.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Coming in third with 10%: Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who<span style="color: Red;">*</span>also has<span style="color: Red;">*</span>never held public office.
Trump<span style="color: Red;">*</span>has<span style="color: Red;">*</span>led Iowa in most polls released over the past month, as he has nationally, so perhaps most notable<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is the steady surge of Carson,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who was also a close second to Trump in a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa poll released over the weekend.
Meanwhile, the GOP front-runner in Iowa for much of the year, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, has slipped significantly. He was the choice of 7% of Iowa Republicans in the latest Monmouth poll, down from 22% the month before.
“These results mark a significant shake-up in the leaderboard from Monmouth’s Iowa poll taken before the first debate,” Patrick Murray, the director of the university’s polling institute, said in a release.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“Carson and, to a lesser extent, Fiorina have surged, while Walker has faded into the background.”
Rounding out the field are: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 9%, former Florida governor Jeb Bush at 5%, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 4% and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul at 3%.
Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Donald Trump, Scott Walker, 2016, Polls<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
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