The GOP establishment's concentrated anti-Trump effort hasn't had much effect in Florida, it seems. A flurry of polls released in the past few days shows Trump with a lead ranging from 9 to 23 percent.
Marco Rubio, meanwhile, can't seem to break more than 30 points in his own state.
Because Florida is a
Trump's biggest leads are in polls from Fox News and Quinnipiac University. He leads Rubio by 23 in
A Suffolk University polls
Overall, however, Trump's lead in the latest polls, according to Real Clear Politics, averages out to 14.8 percent. That's 39.8 percent of the vote to Rubio's 25 percent. Ted Cruz sits at 17.6
Still, there's significant anti-Trump sentiment in the electorate.
According to the Fox News poll, 22 percent of Florida Republicans say that they would not vote for Trump in the general election. Though, 15 percent say the same of Rubio and 11 percent of Cruz.
However, as we noted yesterday in a rundown of recent Democratic polls, Florida primary voters tend to cluster around the candidate they think will do best in the general election. According to a Washington Post/Univision poll, 60 percent think Trump has the best shot at victory in November. That's weird, because almost every head-to-head matchup of the Republicans against Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton finds that Trump fares worst.