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[00:00.16]One American election poll shows a shift
[00:04.16]in the Republican Party race for U.S. president.
[00:08.36]Texas Senator Ted Cruz has become more popular than early Republican front-runner Donald Trump,
[00:17.04]according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
[00:22.32]The poll shows Cruz with 28 percent of the vote from Republican voters if there were an election today.
[00:31.08]Trump received 26 percent.
[00:34.32]In third place was Florida Senator Marco Rubio, at 17 percent.
[00:40.92]Ohio Governor John Kasich got 11 percent,
[00:45.08]Ben Carson was at 10 percent and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush received 4 percent.
[00:53.24]The latest poll was taken after Trump's primary victory in New Hampshire on February 9.
[01:01.48]In the primary, Trump received more than 35 percent of the vote.
[01:07.68]However, other national polls still show Trump as the leading candidate.
[01:13.92]According to a Reuters poll, Trump is 20 points ahead of Cruz.
[01:20.00]In the Democrat Party race for president, Hillary Clinton holds a 44 to 42 lead over Bernie Sanders,
[01:28.48]according to a Quinnipiac University national poll.
[01:32.88]"Senator Bernie Sanders and Secretary Hillary Clinton are neck and neck,"
[01:38.32]said polling official Tim Malloy.
[01:41.60]"But while Bernie has the trust [of the voters], Hillary has the experience."
[01:47.88]Clinton is slightly in front of Sanders in the state of Nevada.
[01:52.40]Clinton holds 48 percent to Sanders' 47 percent in the western state.
[01:59.12]Clinton once held a large lead in Nevada.
[02:02.92]According to CNN, an October 2015 poll showed Clinton ahead by 16 points over Sanders in that state.
[02:13.44]Democrats polled said they believe Clinton has a better chance at winning the November general election.
[02:21.24]More than 83 percent of Democrats think she has a good chance of winning in November.
[02:28.32]The next state primary election is February 27 in South Carolina.
[02:35.52]According to the CNN poll, Clinton has a large lead over Sanders there.
[02:41.48]Clinton has 56 percent of the poll vote in South Carolina to Sanders' 38 percent.
[02:49.48]I'm Jonathan Evans.