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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump drives in a golf cart last Sunday during the final round of the Cadillac Championship golf tournament at Trump National Doral Miami resort. | AP Photo Trump beats Rubio in another Florida poll

Donald Trump leads Sen. Marco Rubio in his home state of Florida in yet another poll of likely Republican primary voters, released Thursday.

The latest survey from Suffolk University shows Trump with 36 percent support in the state and Rubio in second place with 27 percent. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz follows with 19 percent, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich brings up the rear with 10 percent. Eight percent are undecided.

Though he is no longer a candidate, 29 percent said they would vote for Jeb Bush if he were still running — suggesting the former Florida governor's endorsement might carry real weight. Bush is holding meetings with Cruz, Kasich and Rubio but has declined to say who, if anyone, he might back in the GOP primary.

Among those who have voted early since last Saturday, Trump's lead is even larger in the Suffolk poll, with 39 percent to Rubio's 27 percent.

Rubio insists the polls are wrong, and he has all but guaranteed a win in Florida next Tuesday, saying on multiple occasions that the next president of the United States must win Florida in order to win the Republican nomination. The senator has trailed Trump by at least 7 points in every major public survey conducted since the beginning of March. In a Washington Post/Univision poll released Thursday, 59 percent of likely primary voters said Rubio should drop out of the race if he loses the state.

Suffolk conducted the poll March 7-9, surveying 500 likely Republican primary voters in Florida, with an overall margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.

In eight public surveys conducted March 2-9, Trump leads Rubio 39.8 percent to 25 percent in RealClearPolitics' average of Florida polls.