NASHVILLE – Tennessee Republicans are cottoning up to GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump with 32.7 percent of self-described Republican voters, saying in a new survey the billionaire businessman and TV reality star is their man.
That was the highest percentage of support for any of the GOP hopefuls, according to the Middle Tennessee State University poll. The next highest category for Republican voters here was undecided: 28.1 percent said they weren’t sure for whom they would vote.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, had 16.5 percent support while retired surgeon Ben Carson had 6.6 percent and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., had 5.3 percent.
It goes downhill after that.
The MTSU poll surveyed 600 registered voters and included both Democrats and Republicans. The overall margin of error was four percentage points plus or minus.