Donald Trump claimed on Twitter yesterday that according to the latest Quinnipiac poll, he beats “both Hillary and Bernie.”
.@USATODAY Poll and @QuinnipiacPoll say that I beat both Hillary and Bernie, and I havn't even started on them yet!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2016
That’s just not true. The latest national head-to-head poll from @QuinnipiacPoll has Trump losing to Clinton by 1 and to Sanders by 6:
Sorry, @realDonaldTrump, not true. Quinnipiac has you trailing Clinton by 1. https://t.co/zeTG4eNgck https://t.co/lX3EeB2Urt
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) February 24, 2016
Also Quinnipiac has @realDonaldTrump trailing Bernie by 6. Cruz is going to call him a liar! https://t.co/RyXBolB8uI https://t.co/lX3EeB2Urt
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) February 24, 2016
Not only does Trump lose to Clinton in the poll, every other Republican does better than he does:
#Election2016
National poll – #Sanders beats top Republicans, #Clinton…. not so much https://t.co/eXTikQ6U1u pic.twitter.com/pOEnQqEdG6— Quinnipiac University Poll (@QuinnipiacPoll) February 18, 2016
And as we pointed out earlier this week on the USA Today poll Donald Trump is talking about, it’s true that he does lead both Clinton and Sanders. But Marco Rubio and John Kasich lead Clinton and Sanders by bigger margins than The Donald:
OK … let’s take a look at that poll, shall we? Yes, Trump does lead both Clinton and Sanders, but Marco Rubio and John Kasich (!) do even better than Trump. From USA Today:
In hypothetical matchups in the general election:
• Clinton loses by 2 points to Trump (43%-45%), 1 point to Cruz (44%-45%), 6 points to Rubio (42%-48%) and 11 points to Kasich (38%-49%). That’s a weaker standing than the former secretary of State showed in December’s survey, when she narrowly led Trump and Cruz and trailed Rubio by just 2 points.
Rubio and Kasich also beat Trump by a larger margin against Bernie Sanders:
• Sanders loses by 1 point to Trump (43%-44%), 3 points to Kasich (41%-44%) and 4 points to Rubio (42%-46%) — each of them a slightly stronger showing than Clinton — and he leads Cruz by 2 points (44%-42%).
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Why Rubio, Kasich and Quinnipiac are silent on Donald Trump’s tweet remains a mystery.
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Donald Trump touts poll showing Rubio and Kasich doing the best against Clinton, Sanders https://t.co/5xPPaeSFK9
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 18, 2016
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