Businessman Donald Trump was still leading the New Hampshire Republican primary by double digits, according to a CNN/WMUR poll released Thursday, but his nearest competitors had shifted.
Trump led among his GOP rivals with 26 percent of support from New Hampshire residents who said they planned to vote in the state’s Republican presidential primary.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina was in second place with 16 percent. Fiorina surged to second place nationally among Republicans in a poll released Sunday, but her national ranking has been inconsistent among polls released later in the week.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) came up in third place in CNN’s New Hampshire poll with 9 percent, while retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson had 8 percent, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush had 7.
Trump had about the same amount of support in a July poll of New Hampshire, according to CNN.
The poll released Thursday was conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center from Sept. 17-23. Interviews were conducted by phone among 820 New Hampshire residents, including 344 who had said they planned to vote in the Republican presidential primary. The margin of error was plus or minus 5.3 percentage points.
Meh. NH is neither a bellwether for the GOP or Dems nationally.
Mr. Trump’s continuing success is great news for Republicans and Democrats alike. Nobody embodies and articulates conservative social, fiscal and religious values like Mr. Trump does. He is younger and more charismatic that even Ronald Reagan.
He does not hold his punches and speaks his mind. This will give voters a chance to understand the merits of Democratic and Republican policies.
Weird sample set…
820 “residents” and 344 “who plan to vote in Repub primary”
So 60% of the sample could plan to vote in the democratic primary or not at all?
Seems a 5% Margin is quite the understatement.
As much as Donald Trump wants to believe this is some kind of personal coronation, the only thing that these unremarkable polls signify is the absence of any single worthwhile candidate in the Republican field. I am heartened each time one of these polls appears – Republicans are further convinced that Donald Trump is their man. Please nominate this mindless clown as the Republican candidate for President. I’ve been waiting years to see the other side of Nixon-McGovern.