Shock Poll: Bernie Sanders Fares Better Against GOP Candidates Than Hillary Clinton

NBC/WSJ has a new poll out on possible presidential matchups.
While most of NBC’s coverage is focused on the presumptive-Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, there is this interesting point:

The NBC/WSJ poll also tested Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders against Trump and Rubio, and Sanders outperforms Clinton — though by just a point or two.

Sanders leads Trump by nine points, 50 percent to 41 percent (versus Clinton’s eight-point advantage), and he’s ahead of Rubio by five points, 46 percent to 41 percent (versus Clinton’s three-point lead).