Biden tops Trump by 7 points in New Hampshire survey

President Biden is leading former President Trump by nearly 7 points in a recent New Hampshire survey that asked voters for whom they would vote if the election were tomorrow. , jointly conducted by USA Today, The Boston Globe and Suffolk University, found that among New Hampshire voters, Biden leads with 41.5 percent of the vote.

Trump follows behind, with 34.1 percent of support among New Hampshire voters. Eight percent of respondents said they would vote for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and 10 percent were undecided. Biden, who will not appear on the state’s Democratic ballot because the Democratic National Committee doesn’t this year, continues to earn a majority of the support from Democrat voters in the state despite not being on the ballot.

Nearly 64 percent of Democrats said they would vote for Biden as a write in candidate over someone else, like Rep. Dean Phillips (D Minn.) and Marianne Williamson. Democratic voters are fairly enthusiastic about Biden as their party’s nominee. On a scale of one to 10, with one being “very unenthusiastic” and 10 being “very enthusiastic” the average rating is a 6.13, the survey found.

Republican voters are slightly less enthusiastic about supporting Trump. The survey found the average rating for the former president to sit at 5.93. The survey found that while Trump remains in the lead among GOP candidates, former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley is closing in on his lead by earning support once held by entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, Florida Gov.

Ron DeSantis and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Trump has 45.8 percent support, down from an October poll. Haley is in second place with 26.5 percent support, while Christie has 12.4 percent, DeSantis has 7.5 percent and Ramaswamy has 2.2 percent. The survey found that voters generally were happy with Biden’s stance in favor of abortion rights, his lowering of health care costs through the Inflation Reduction Act and his climate change initiatives.

But they were generally unhappy with his handling of the economy, the southern border and his attempts to cancel student loan debt. The survey was conducted with 1,000 likely New Hampshire voters via phone from Jan. 3 7 and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points..