Donald Trump could trample his opponents in Tuesday’s Republican New York primary, according to a new poll.
The GOP front-runner leads by 29 points among likely primary voters in New York state with 54 percent support, followed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 25 percent and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) at 16 percent, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist Poll released Friday.
{mosads}“Donald Trump is well-positioned to carry New York handily and is likely to acquire a sizeable number of New York’s delegates as a result,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
Fourteen delegates in the New York primary are awarded proportionally based on the statewide vote. Should any candidate receive more than 50 percent of the vote — something only Trump appears capable of doing — he will claim all of those delegates.
The remaining 81 delegates are divided among the state’s 27 congressional districts, with three delegates up for grabs in each. Candidates who receive more than 50 percent of the vote in any district take all three of the delegates within it.
The results are similar to the same poll released earlier this week in which Trump had 54 percent support among New York’s GOP voters, but support for Kasich grew slightly while support for Cruz dropped a few points.
“If there’s someone to watch in the closing hours, closing days, it’s Kasich,” Miringoff said.