Billionaire Donald Trump leads the crowded 2016 Republican presidential field in California, according to a poll released Sunday morning.
{mosads}The USC Dornsife/LA Times Poll found that 24 percent of Republicans said they would support Trump.
Retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson is in second place with 18 percent.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) each received 6 percent support.
Pollsters found that Carson would beat Trump in a head-to-head matchup, however, 43 percent to 32 percent.
“More than half of the Republican primary voters who have chosen a candidate are supporting someone who has never held elected office,” Dan Schnur, director of the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll and director of the Unruh Institute of Politics of USC, said.
“Sheer anger toward Washington is handily defeating ideology in the Republican primary,” he added.
Pollsters also found former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton atop the Democratic field, with 42 percent support.
Twenty six percent said they would back Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Vice President Joe Biden grabbed support from 11 percent of respondents when his name was added to the field.
“Clinton is holding up pretty well,” said Drew Lieberman, vice president of Democratic polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, which helped conduct the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll. “What you see going on here is that she has very solid coalition of moderate-type Democrats plus non-white voters that someone like Sanders or anybody from her left flank would have to overcome in order to cut into her vote share.”