As rival political parties struggle with leadership challenges, Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are riding high in the latest Abacus Data poll .

Ford’s Tories were at 52 per cent support, slightly lower than their high-water mark of 53 per cent support last month , while departing leader Bonnie Crombie’s Liberals were at 24 per cent, down from 27 per cent, and Marit Stiles’s NDP remains stuck at its all-time low of 12 per cent. Mike Schreiner’s Greens were at six per cent, up from five per cent.

“Obviously, the disarray of the opposition parties isn’t helping them,” Abacus president David Coletto said Tuesday of the Liberals and New Democrats.

That was a reference to both Crombie being forced to resign as Liberal chief on Sept. 14 after winning just 57 per cent at a

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