--- title: Clinton, Sanders Could Easily Top Trump description: According to a new CNN/ORC poll canonical: https://time.com/4242667/2016-poll-clinton-sanders-could-beat-trump/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-01T13:19:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:29:42.839Z article:section: Politics og:title: Clinton, Sanders Could Easily Top Trump og:description: According to a new CNN/ORC poll og:url: https://time.com/4242667/2016-poll-clinton-sanders-could-beat-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61d99937b3a19ccf/69887f9cab6d776a786a8a2b/timepol-hillary-clinton-election-2016-natalie-keyssar-31.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: TIMEPOL Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clinton, Sanders Could Easily Top Trump twitter:description: According to a new CNN/ORC poll twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61d99937b3a19ccf/69887f9cab6d776a786a8a2b/timepol-hillary-clinton-election-2016-natalie-keyssar-31.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Clinton and Sanders Could Easily Beat Donald Trump, Poll Says  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Mar 1, 2016 1:19 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton campaigns on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016 at the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History in Springfield, Mass. Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton campaigns on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016 at the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History in Springfield, Mass.Natalie Keyssar for TIME  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Mar 1, 2016 1:19 PM UTC Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders could easy beat Donald Trump come November, according to a new CNN/ORC poll that pits the Republican front runner against his potential Democratic opponents. Clinton would beat Trump 52 to 44 percent among registered voters—an improvement of her odds since the last CNN/ORC Poll in January—while Sanders would top Trump 57 to 40 percent. [**Watch live:** ](http://time.com/4242287/super-tuesday-2016-primary-results-live-stream-online/)[Super Tuesday voting takes place across the U.S.](http://time.com/4242287/super-tuesday-2016-primary-results-live-stream-online/) Though support for Sanders tops the Republican candidates’ by wide margins in the poll results, Clinton faces tougher hypothetical competition from the GOP hopefuls. Against Marco Rubio, Clinton garners 47 percent compared to his 50 percent, which is the same split from the January poll. When matched up against Ted Cruz, she nabs 48 percent of poll participants, just short of his 49 percent. The telephone survey of 920 registered voters from a national of 1,001 adults was conducted between Feb. 24 and 27 and has a margin of error of plus/minus 3 percentage points. \[[CNN](http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/01/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-poll/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4242667/2016-poll-clinton-sanders-could-beat-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4242667/2016-poll-clinton-sanders-could-beat-trump/"},"headline":"Clinton and Sanders Could Easily Beat Donald Trump, Poll Says","datePublished":"2016-03-01T13:19:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:29:42.839Z","description":"Sanders fares better than Clinton against other Republicans","url":"https://time.com/4242667/2016-poll-clinton-sanders-could-beat-trump/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61d99937b3a19ccf/69887f9cab6d776a786a8a2b/timepol-hillary-clinton-election-2016-natalie-keyssar-31.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61d99937b3a19ccf/69887f9cab6d776a786a8a2b/timepol-hillary-clinton-election-2016-natalie-keyssar-31.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIMEPOL Hillary Clinton","caption":"Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton campaigns on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016 at the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History in Springfield, Mass.","creditText":"Natalie Keyssar for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4242667/2016-poll-clinton-sanders-could-beat-trump/","name":"Clinton and Sanders Could Easily Beat Donald Trump, Poll Says"}}]}] ```