Trump leads Walker, Bush in Fox national poll

Donald Trump leads all Republican presidential candidates for the GOP primary, according to a new Fox national poll of registered voters released Thursday.

Eighteen percent of GOP voters said they supported Trump, up 7 percent from last month and 15 percent from March.


Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker came in second at 15 percent, just 1 percentage point ahead of former Florida governor Jeb Bush.

Fox News has said that the top 10 contenders in an average of credible, recent national polls will be invited to participate in the first Republican primary debate, and lower-tier candidates are nervously watching their numbers ahead of the Aug. 6 event.

Rounding out the top 10: Rand Paul with 8 percent, Marco Rubio with 7 percent, Ben Carson with 6 percent, Ted Cruz with 4 percent, Mike Huckabee with 4 percent, Chris Christie with 3 percent, and John Kasich and Rick Santorum tied with 2 percent each.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton led Democratic voters at 59 percent, with Bernie Sanders coming in second at 19 percent. But 58 percent of voters said Clinton’s natural instincts lean toward hiding the truth.

The poll also asked about President Barack Obama’s foreign policy.

A majority of Republicans said that the Obama administration had been too eager to get a deal with Iran — 65 percent said they were very concerned about the recently concluded talks in Vienna. Twenty-five percent of Democrats also expressed strong concern, and eighty percent of respondents said the U.S. couldn’t trust Iran on nuclear weapons.

Only 3 percent of registered voters said that Obama was being too aggressive with the Islamic State, with more than half agreeing that he wasn’t being aggressive enough.

The poll surveyed 1,019 registered voters via land lines and cell phones from July 13-15, with an overall margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.