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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Wednesday, April 6, in Bethpage, N.Y. | AP Photo Poll: Trump more unpopular than anyone but David Duke in last 30 years of presidential elections

Donald Trump is the most unpopular top-tier presidential candidate over more than three decades of ABC News/Washington Post polls, except for former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. That's according to the results of the latest national ratings released Thursday, which did not carry too auspicious results for Trump's two Republican opponents, either.

Two in three Americans surveyed in the poll — 67 percent — said they held an unfavorable view of Trump, while just 31 percent said they saw him favorably and only 2 percent said they had no opinion of him. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's favorability rating was marginally higher, at 36 percent, while 53 percent said they had an unfavorable view of him and 11 percent said they had no opinion. Ohio Gov. John Kasich made out the best in the poll, with 39 percent each responding that they had a favorable and unfavorable opinion of him, but 22 percent said they had no opinion either way.

Trump's 67 percent unfavorable rating is nearly as low as the 69 percent of Americans who said they had a negative view of Duke in a February 1992 poll. Unlike Trump, Duke went on to receive fewer than 120,000 votes and zero convention delegates.

Duke told his radio audience earlier this year that voting for anyone other than Trump is "treason to your heritage." In the days that followed, Trump disavowed Duke but then in a subsequent interview with CNN said he needed to do more research about Duke and the KKK. He later blamed the incident on a "lousy earpiece."

Among Republicans, all of the candidates have net positive ratings, with Trump at +14 points (56 percent to 42 percent), Cruz at +20 points (58 percent to 38 percent) and Kasich at +7 points (47 percent to 40 percent).

Langer Research Associates conducted the poll via landlines and cellphones from April 6-10, surveying a national sample of 1,010 adults, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.