Majority of Insiders See Trump Winning Nomination

Geoff Garin polled 160 political insiders and found that “59% say they expect Donald Trump to win the GOP nomination, up from just 8% when I last asked the same group of people at the end of October. Trump’s rise as the betting favorite is the flip side of a larger fall for Marco Rubio. Fully 69% predicted in October that Rubio would be the GOP’s eventual nominee but now only 18% would put their money on him.”

“On the Democratic side, there is close to a unanimous expectation that Hillary Clinton will prevail as the party’s standard bearer – with 96% predicting Clinton will be the Democratic nominee.”