U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, whom just last year was a leading GOP presidential contender for 2016, continues to see his popularity fall, as fellow Floridian Jeb Bush’s support rises in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll taken Jan. 20-23.
Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 18 percent of registered voters surveyed support Bush, the former two-term Florida governor. Rep. Paul Ryan, the 2012 vice-presidential nominee, received the same.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose reputation seems to have taken a hit after a scandal over a politically induced traffic jam at the George Washington Bridge, received a relatively weak 14 percent. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are down the list with 12 and 11 percent, respectively.
Rubio, who enjoyed a solid lead in national polling early in 2013, now comes in at the bottom with only 10 percent.
On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead over vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who insists she will not seek the White House in 2016.
With Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, Clinton takes 73 percent, compared to 12 percent for Biden and 8 percent for Warren.
This ABC News/Washington Post telephone survey used a random national sample of 1,003 adults, with both landline and cell-phone-only respondents, and a margin of error of +/- 3.5 points. Partisan breakdown was 32-25-37 percent, Democrats-Republicans-independents.
