Trump breaks 50 percent mark in national poll
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is above the 50 percent mark nationally in an online tracking poll.
{mosads}The billionaire businessman added 4 points to reach 50 percent in the latest NBC News/SurveyMonkey weekly poll, released Tuesday morning.
It’s the first time he’s reached the threshold since the poll launched late last year.
He’s been in the high 40s since the middle of last month.
Rival Ted Cruz lost 2 points in the latest poll to fall to 26 percent, while John Kasich is at 17 percent, also down 2 points.
The poll of 10,707 adults, conducted April 18–24, has a reported margin of error of 1.4 percentage points.