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Marco Rubio tied for 3rd in latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll

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Marco Rubio is continuing to rise in Republican presidential polls.

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal national survey released Sunday shows the Florida Senator now tied for third place with Carly Fiorina at 10 percent.

Topping the poll once again is Donald Trump, but barely in this case. Trump is at 21 percent, followed by Ben Carson right behind at 20 percent support.

Following Rubio and Fiorina in fifth place is Jeb Bush at 7 percent. John Kasich is at 6 percent and Ted Cruz at 5 percent. No other Republican gets more than 3 percent.

In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton is the first choice of 42 percent of primary voters, Sanders is in second at 35 percent and Joe Biden third at 17 percent. No other Democrat gets more than 1 percent.

If Biden (who is not running) is removed from the poll, however, Clinton’s lead over Sanders increases to 53-38 percent.

The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Sept. 20-24 of 256 Democratic voters (which has a margin of error of plus-minus 6.1 percentage points) and 230 GOP primary voters (plus-minus 6.5 percentage points).

Mitch Perry has been a reporter with Extensive Enterprises since November of 2014. Previously, he served as five years as the political editor of the alternative newsweekly Creative Loafing. He also was the assistant news director with WMNF 88.5 FM in Tampa from 2000-2009, and currently hosts MidPoint, a weekly talk show, on WMNF on Thursday afternoons. He began his reporting career at KPFA radio in Berkeley. He's a San Francisco native who has now lived in Tampa for 15 years and can be reached at [email protected].

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