Two-thirds of Democratic voters said the candidate who promises transformational change in our society has the better chance of beating Donald Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE in the presidential election, a new Hill/HarrisX poll finds.

By contrast, 34 percent of voters believe the candidate who promises to build off of previous administrations has a better chance of winning in November.

A majority of independent voters also said a candidate promising transformational change to our society is best to beat Trump, at 57 percent, while 43 percent said they believed someone who promises to build off of previous administrations has the better chance.

Overall,56 percent of respond ents in the Mar. 8-9 survey chose the candidate who offers transformational change when it comes to which type of candidate has a better chance of beating Trump in November.

The two major candidates still battling for the Democratic presidential nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenSenate Republicans face tough decision on replacing Ginsburg What Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Biden says Ginsburg successor should be picked by candidate who wins on Nov. 3 MORE and Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 Biden's fiscal program: What is the likely market impact? McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security MORE (I-Vt.), contrast on the issue of transformational change.

Sanders is pushing for bigger changes on policy than Biden, who again argued at a Sunday night debate that most voters do not want a "revolution."

Biden is ahead of Sanders in the primary, and Sanders has publicly said that one reason he is trailing Biden is that he is losing the electability question.

The poll, however, suggests that more people think a candidate promising transformational change would defeat Trump than one calling for more incremental change.

The Hill-HarrisX poll was conducted online among 1,001 registered voters between March 8-9. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

—Gabriela Schulte