Carly Fiorina claims second place in new US-wide poll
US presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina’s performance in the second GOP debate has moved her to the second rank in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, a new national CNN/ORC poll has found.
The survey, conducted over three days following the Wednesday night debate, showed that the former Hewlett Packard CEO attracted 15 percent support, trailing Donald Trump with 24 percent, the CNN reported on Sunday.
The poll shows an 8 percent drop in popularity for Trump, while Fiorina’s popularity jumped 3 percent in comparison with a similar poll, conducted earlier in September.
Ranking in the third place was former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who fell only one percent short at 14 percent.
Like Trump, Carson also experienced a significant decline from the previous poll, where he stood at 19 percent.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida was next with 11 percent, 3 percent less than the earlier poll.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush slotted in fifth with 9 percent support. He was followed by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee at 6 percent each, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky with 4 percent, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie at 3 percent, Ohio Governor John Kasich with 2 percent and former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania with only 1 percent.
The survey also asked the viewers of the debate, watched by 23 million people, to choose the one candidate they deemed as the winner of the nationally televised event.
This was another surprise win for Fiorina as she trounced Trump with a decisive 52 percent of the viewer votes against the real estate magnate’s 31 percent.
However, some 44 percent of the likely Republican voters said they view Trump as the candidate who could best handle the economy, giving him quite an edge over Fiorina with 11 percent, Rubio with 10 percent and Bush with 8 percent.
Another interesting finding by the poll was that the first three Republican contenders for the 2016 presidential nomination have never held political positions.
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