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Former President Donald Trump is extending his lead over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in New Hampshire, with new entrants to the 2024 Republican primary winning support from state voters, according to a new poll.
The Saint Anselm College Survey Center poll, released Tuesday, gathered responses from 1,065 registered Granite State voters from June 21 to 23 and found Trump sitting at 47% support from voters in the state.
After Trump, DeSantis received 19% support, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie received 6% support, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley received 5% support, and South Carolina GOP Senator Tim Scott received 4% support.
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From left to right: former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former President Donald Trump, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. (John Lamparski, Drew Angerer, Brandon Bell via Getty Images)
Other contenders for the Republican presidential nomination — including entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Vice President Mike Pence, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson – received two percent support from survey respondents.
Compared to a similar poll conducted by Saint Anselm College earlier this year, support for DeSantis in New Hampshire is down 10 points and support for Trump is down 7 points. The March poll showed Trump with 42% support, followed by DeSantis at 29%, Haley at 4% and Ramaswamy at 3%.
If an election contest between Trump and President Biden were held today, New Hampshire voters who participated in the poll said they would vote 49% to 40% for Biden over Trump. DeSantis is in the same boat, with voters in the state still saying they would support Biden over Florida’s governor, 49% to 40% of voters in a general election.
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If an election contest between Trump and President Biden were held today, New Hampshire voters who participated in the poll said they would vote 49% to 40% for Biden over Trump. (Erin Schaff/Getty Images)
But Granite State voters said they believe a Biden-Trump matchup in 2024 indicates the system is broken. Fourteen percent of Republicans surveyed said they were slightly more likely than Democrats (6%) to believe such a matchup represents the best each political party has to offer, but 83% disagreed overall at sometime.
In terms of age, 70% of survey respondents — including 50% of Democrats — expressed concern about the 80-year-old incumbent president, while only 34% said they were concerned about the age of the 77-year-old former president. president.
A voter fills in her ballot paper on November 4, 2022. (GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Despite his polls running against Republicans, Biden remains clearly among Democrats despite his main challengers. Robert Kennedy Jr. received 9% support in the latest poll, while Marianne Williamson, who was seeking the party’s 2020 nomination for president, received 8% support.
The Saint Anselm College Survey Center poll — conducted via online surveys — has a margin of error of +/- 3.0% with a 95% confidence interval.
