In a new CNN poll released on Wednesday morning, the GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump boasts a double-digit lead over his closest competitor, picking up 39 percent support from GOP voters.

Together, Trump and Cruz wield a powerful 57 percent of the vote, leaving the 11 other candidates still in the race to fight over their scraps – more than the combined percentage of Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio.

A Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday shows roughly the same pot for candidates not named Trump and Cruz to fight over.

In that poll Trump was leading with 28 percent of the vote to Cruz’s 24 percent for a joint total of 52 percent of the vote.

The CNN poll released today put Cruz at 18 percent to Trump’s 39, with Carson and Rubio at 10 percent each. Nine remaining candidates were unable to muster more than five percent each, and in the case of three, a single digit of support.

With first contest in 40 days, in Iowa on Feb. 1, candidates need the equivalent of a political earthquake to shake up the race and change their fate in the battle for the White House.

The CNN/ORC poll was conducted by telephone December 17-21 among a random national sample of 1,018 adults.

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