Republican Marco Rubio still holds a commanding lead in WORLD’s third evangelical insiders survey, but GOP rival Carly Fiorina is gaining ground on the heels of another standout debate performance.

The findings are part of a monthly survey of 103 evangelical leaders and insiders, 91 of whom participated in September. The results are not scientific or representative of all evangelicals but offer a snapshot of how some well-connected evangelicals are leaning in the 2016 presidential election.

This month’s survey took place in the days after last Wednesday’s GOP debate, and respondents clearly liked what they saw in former Hewlett-Packard CEO Fiorina. She more than doubled her first-choice votes from last month and edged Rubio as the most popular second-choice candidate — the first time anyone has topped Rubio in either category so far in this survey. In total, 40 percent of respondents named her as either their first or second choice, up from 25 percent last month and 15 percent in July.

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