NH poll: Trump leads Rubio on eve of primary
Donald Trump retains a substantial lead over the rest of the Republican presidential field in the final CNN/WMUR tracking poll in New Hampshire ahead of Tuesday’s primary.
Trump nabs 31 percent support in the survey released Monday evening, down 2 points from the same poll conducted last week but inside its margin of error.
{mosads}Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) takes 17 percent in the survey, which was conducted Thursday through Monday and included the Republican debate over the weekend. Rubio, who emerged as an establishment favorite from last week’s Iowa caucus, struggled in the face of a barrage of attacks from rival New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in that debate.
CNN said that it couldn’t produce a separate estimate of support due to a small post-debate sample size, but reported that interviews in the two days after the Saturday debate “found no drop in support for Rubio” and instead “a slimmer margin between Trump and Rubio.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), the winner of the Iowa caucus, follows Rubio closely at third place, taking 14 percent.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich takes 10 percent, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has 7 percent, businesswoman Carly Fiorina has 5 percent, Christie has 4 percent and Ben Carson has 3 percent.
The survey of 362 likely GOP primary voters has a margin of error of 5.2 points.
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