Clinton Ties Carson in '16 Matchup, Tops Other GOP Candidates: NBC/WSJ Poll

One year before the 2016 general election, Hillary Clinton and Ben Carson are tied in a hypothetical matchup, but Clinton leads three other major Republican candidates, according to numbers from the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday.

Clinton leads Donald Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Senator Marco Rubio among registered voters, but not Ben Carson, who is now leading a crowded GOP field in the NBC/WSJ poll. That potential race is a dead heat, tied at 47 percent, NBC News reports.

Carson outperforms the rest of his party among independents, leading Clinton in that category by 13 points (47 percent to 34 percent) in the poll.

The NBC/WSJ poll also tested Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders against Trump and Rubio, and Sanders outperforms Clinton by just a point or two.

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