Bernie Sanders, her closest challenger, received only 15 percent of Democrats’ support. WSJ/NBC national poll shows Clinton crushing all rivals

Hillary Clinton is riding high in a new WSJ/NBC News poll, with a whopping 60-point margin over her nearest Democratic rival and commanding leads nationally against her would-be Republican opponents.

The poll found the former secretary of state garnering 75 percent of the vote in a potential Democratic primary. Her closest challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, received only 15 percent of Democrats’ support, while former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley were supported by fewer than 5 percent of respondents.


The results represent a resurgence of sorts for Clinton after Sanders had appeared to close the gap slightly in recent months, though it should be noted that the poll was of American adults, not of registered or likely voters — and that polling averages are usually a better indicator of the true state of the race.

The presumptive Democratic front-runner also stacked up well against the three top Republican contenders in national polls. She led former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in a hypothetical match-up among registered voters, 48-40, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker 51-37, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio 50-40 percent.

In the Republican field, Jeb Bush held a 5-point lead over Walker, garnering 22 percent of Republican respondents’ support. Next came Walker with 17 percent, Rubio with 14, and Ben Carson with 11. No other candidates ranked in double digits.

The poll, released on Monday, was conducted June 14-18. The general election results were taken among 830 self-identified registered voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points. The poll included subsamples of 247 Democratic primary voters and 236 Republican primary voters; the margins of error are plus or minus 6.2 and 6.4 percentage points, respectively.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated the sample size and margin of error for the general election matchups.