Polls show GOP split in upcoming primaries

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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz leads rival Donald Trump by 6 percentage points in Wisconsin ahead of voting on Tuesday, according to a new CBS News Battleground Tracker poll released Sunday morning.

{mosads}The Texas senator has the support of 43 percent of likely GOP voters in Wisconsin, compared to Trump’s 37 percent. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has 18 percent.

Trump has a dominant 31-point lead, however, in his home state of New York ahead of its April primary, according to the new poll. The real estate mogul leads Cruz 52 to 21 percent. Kasich has 20 percent.

Trump also holds a significant lead in Pennsylvania before voters there go to the polls later this month, pollsters found.

The billionaire has 47 percent in the Keystone State, compared to 29 percent for Cruz and 22 percent for Kasich.

The poll’s margin of error in Wisconsin is 5.7 percent. The margin of error is 5.6 percent in New York and 5.0 percent in Pennsylvania.

–This report was updated at 12:17 p.m.

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