Wed Mar 23, 2016 AT 10:25 AM EDT
Ted Cruz may have won both Utah’s Republican presidential primary and an endorsement from ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, but the Wednesday’s Quinnipiac national poll indicates that nearly half of the supporters of rival candidate John Kasich would vote for Donald Trump, not Ted Cruz, as their second choice, and more than half of Cruz’s backers would do the same if he dropped out, reports Politico.