A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are still the top candidates in Florida.

The poll, however, finds if Trump is the Republican nominee for the general election, he would lose to a Democratic candidate.           

Trump is getting 28 percent of the support from Republicans in Florida, up from 21 percent in an August poll. 

Ben Carson comes in second with 16 percent. Marco Rubio received 14 percent, and Jeb Bush got 12 percent.

When voters were presented potential one-on-one matchups with Trump, he was beaten by Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders.

On the Democrat side, Clinton is still getting 43 percent of the support right now, but it's a similar story for general election matchups.

Biden is the only candidate who gets the nod over all Republican candidates in Florida.

Top general election vote-getters are as follows:

  • Biden gets 45 percent to Carson's 42 percent in Florida
  • Carson gets 46 percent to Biden's 42 percent in Ohio
  • Carson tops Biden, 47–42, in Pennsylvania

The Swing State Poll focuses on Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania because no candidate has won the presidential race without taking at least two of these three states since 1960.

The poll was conducted from Sept. 25 to Oct. 5. Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,173 Florida voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percentage points.  The survey includes 461 Republicans with a margin of error of +/- 4.6 percentage points and 411 Democrats with a margin of error of +/- 4.8 percentage points.

Read the Quinnipiac University swing state poll