--- ---  # Donald Trump Slips to Third Place in Colorado  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Nov 18, 2015 3:14 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Iowa on Nov. 12. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Iowa on Nov. 12.Charlie Neibergall—AP  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Nov 18, 2015 3:14 PM UTC After a summer atop the polls, Donald Trump has fallen to third place in a new survey. But there’s some good news for the real estate mogul: The poll is only of voters in Colorado, which won’t matter this year. In the [Quinnipiac University poll](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/colorado/release-detail?ReleaseID=2303) of Colorado Republicans released Wednesday, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson leads the pack with 25 percent of the vote. He’s followed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 19 percent and Trump in third with 17 percent. Among the Republicans surveyed, 32 percent said they “would definitely not” support Trump. This year Colorado will not have a nominating contest; the GOP executive committee voted to cancel the presidential preference poll this year after a national rule change requiring state delegates to support the candidate who wins the caucus vote, [the Denver _Post_ reports](http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci%5F28700919/colorado-republicans-cancel-2016-presidential-caucus-vote). **Read Next:** [_Donald Trump Sets His Sights on New Target Marco Rubio_](http://time.com/4096490/donald-trump-attacks-marco-rubio/) Donald Trump Slips to Third Place in Colorado Poll ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4118083/donald-trump-poll-colorado/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4118083/donald-trump-poll-colorado/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Slips to Third Place in Colorado","datePublished":"2015-11-18T15:14:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:43:59.962Z","description":"Donald Trump has fallen to third place in a new poll of Colorado voters, behind Ben Carson and Marco Rubio.","url":"https://time.com/4118083/donald-trump-poll-colorado/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Colorado","2016 Election topic","Sen. Marco Rubio","Dr. Benjamin S. Carson"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2237e9bda9caf2f7/698870e73c16390c0b45ab0e/trump-attacks-carson-iowa-rally.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2237e9bda9caf2f7/698870e73c16390c0b45ab0e/trump-attacks-carson-iowa-rally.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Skewers Carson in Iowa","caption":"Donald Trump Skewers Carson in Iowa","creditText":"Charlie Neibergall—AP","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":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4118083/donald-trump-poll-colorado/","name":"Donald Trump Slips to Third Place in Colorado"}}]}] ```