Eighty-five percent of voters surveyed said Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic Party’s nomination. | Getty Poll: Americans overwhelmingly believe Trump, Clinton will win their primaries

More than eight in 10 Americans believe Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will win their respective primaries, setting up a general-election faceoff between the reality star and the former secretary of state, according to a CNN/ORC national poll released Monday.

Eighty-four percent of voters surveyed said Trump will likely win the Republican Party’s nomination, a massive lead over Ted Cruz (10 percent) and John Kasich (3 percent). Eighty-five percent said Clinton will win the Democratic Party’s nomination, while just 12 percent said Bernie Sanders will emerge as the party’s nominee.


Trump tops the poll with 49 percent support among Republicans and Republican-leaning voters, followed by Cruz at 25 percent and Kasich at 19 percent. Trump is the only GOP candidate with a mathematical path to securing the nomination outright and has pledged to unite the party.

Republicans, however, are split on whether the party will be able to unite. Just 7 percent said they believe the party is already united, though 41 percent believe the party will unite before the election. But nearly half said the party will still be divided in November.

If Trump falls short of the necessary 1,237 delegates necessary to claim the nomination on the first ballot at the Republican convention, 60 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters believe the delegates should elect the candidate with the most support throughout the primary, while 37 percent said the delegates should elect the person they feel is the best candidate. Top factors Republicans want in their nominee include his chance to win in November, how well he represents the party and the delegates he has won in the primary campaign.

Clinton tops Sanders in the poll by 8 percentage points, 51 percent to 43 percent. Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters are much more optimistic that their party will ultimately unite behind the party's nominee, though. Three in 10 said the Democratic Party is already united, while 46 percent said it’s divided now but will be united before the election. Just 23 percent believe the party will still be divided in November.

The survey of 1,001 Americans was conducted April 28-May 1 via landline and cellphone. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points. The margin of error for the Republican and Democratic samples is plus or minus 5 percentage points.