- A New Hampshire poll this month shows Trump still in the lead
- But Nikki Haley is closing the gap with 20% in the early primary state
- Chris Christie is in second place in New Hampshire, pushing DeSantis to fourth place
A new poll from New Hampshire shows that while Donald Trump maintains his commanding lead, Nikki Haley is closing the gap significantly as early state primaries on January 23 draw ever closer.
According to the new CNN poll from the University of New Hampshire, Trump is still the frontrunner in the Republican primary with 42 percent support. His standing has increased 3 percent since September, when he polled 39 percent in the Granite State primary.
Meanwhile, Haley trails Trump by 22 percent, with a shocking 20 percent support with just two months until the New Hampshire primary.
The former UN ambassador saw a huge increase compared to September, when she was at just 12 percent in the same CNN poll.
A New Hampshire poll this month shows Donald Trump still in the lead – but Nikki Haley is closing the gap at 20% in the state with early primaries
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is relegated to fourth place in the state with the country’s first primary, which only follows the Iowa caucuses in January
Her strong debate performances, combined with disrupting other candidates’ campaigns, have helped Haley narrow the gap with Trump.
Iowa holds its first caucus primary on January 15th – but New Hampshire isn’t far behind and will hold its first traditional caucuses on January 23rd.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had an early lead behind Trump but is now in fourth place in New Hampshire with 9 percent support, up from 23 percent support in early primaries in July and 10 percent in September had fallen.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, despite trailing nationally in polls, led DeSantis in New Hampshire, with 11 percent in September and rising to 14 percent in November.
Christie is banking heavily on his performance in New Hampshire. He bragged on Fox News on Wednesday that he hadn’t spent “an hour in Iowa” during this primary campaign.
He also dismissed national polls, claiming they didn’t matter because there were no national primaries in the United States. So he focused on his performance “state by state.”
Christie sarcastically quipped to Fox News host Sandra Smith that he should “just get out of the race” because RealClearPolitics national polls had him at 2.4 percent.
Christie repeatedly pointed to polls in New Hampshire, the early primary state where the 2024 candidate is putting all his weight into the Jan. 23 election.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he isn’t worried about national polls because primaries are held in each individual state and dismissed his poor showing in national polls
“I don’t care where I rank in the national polls,” Christie Smith replied when asked how he thought he was really doing compared to the polls nationally.
“It doesn’t matter, we don’t have statewide area codes, Sandra,” he continued, clearly frustrated by the narrative. “If we had a national primary code, I would be in a desperate, terrible situation – but we don’t.” “We have state-by-state primaries.”
From the September poll to the poll conducted and released this month, former Vice President Mike Pence and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott have both suspended their presidential primary campaigns – beating the 8 percent who voted for them two months ago , cleared the way for a redistribution among voters remaining candidates.
Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has lost some ground in New Hampshire, where he was at 13 percent in September.
The millionaire is now at 8 percent and only has two months to make up for the lost support.
Trump maintains his impressive 42% lead in New Hampshire – Nikki Haley is 22 points behind in second place and Ron DeSantis falls to FOURTH