POLL: Kasich, Cruz voters prefer Trump as second choice.

Nearly half of the supporters of Ohio Gov. John Kasich would vote for Donald Trump, not Ted Cruz, as their second choice, according to the results of a Quinnipiac University national poll released Wednesday. And more than half of Cruz’s backers suggested they would do the same with their man out of the race.

Asked whom they would like to win the GOP nomination, 43 percent of the 652 Republicans surveyed said they wanted Trump to emerge as the party’s choice in Cleveland, followed by 29 percent for Cruz and just 16 percent for Kasich, with 9 percent undecided.

Cruz is reportedly trying to “entice Kasich to drop out of race,” but if the Quinnipiac poll is correct, that would only nudge Trump even closer to 50% — or higher.