Ben Carson is gaining on Donald Trump

Benjamin SnyderBy Benjamin SnyderManaging Editor
Benjamin SnyderManaging Editor

Benjamin Snyder is Fortune's managing editor, leading operations for the newsroom.

Prior to rejoining Fortune, he was a managing editor at Business Insider and has worked as an editor for Bloomberg, LinkedIn and CNBC, covering leadership stories, sports business, careers and business news. He started his career as a breaking news reporter at Fortune in 2014.

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UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 26: Dr. Ben Carson speaks to address the crowd at CPAC in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 26, 2015. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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Donald Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson are running pretty close in the national Republican presidential race, according to a newly released NBC News and Wall Street Journal national poll.

While Trump is still ahead with 21% of Republican primary voters’ support, Carson is now at 20%, the new poll found. Meanwhile, former Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Carly Fiorina and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida are tied at 11% each. Florida’s Governor Jeb Bush has 7% in the poll.

According to CNN:

On the Democratic side, Clinton—who held a 60-point lead over Sanders in June—has slipped to a 7-point advantage over the Vermont senator among Democratic primary voters, 42% to 35%. Vice President Joe Biden, who has not yet declared whether he will seek the Oval Office, comes in third with 17%. No other Democrat received more than 1%.

The poll was conducted in the Sept. 20-24 period and surveyed 230 Republican primary voters and 256 Democratic voters, according to CNN.

For more on Carson, read this in-depth article Fortune wrote about him in 1992.