New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie came in third at 9 percent, but more than doubled his support after an endorsement from the New Hampshire Union Leader, the state’s largest newspaper, WMUR noted. & while the Republican contenders show a reasonably united front against new gun control measures, their potential New Hampshire constituents are rather more open on the difficulty.
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According to the new poll from WBUR in Boston, Trump remains in first place with the support of 27% of likely Republican primary voters. Christie has all but staked his campaign on a strong showing in the Granite State. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), who had 11%, and Sen. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), and Sen. The order is based on a mix of five criteria: New Hampshire primary polls, the predicted aftermath of the Iowa caucuses, local campaign infrastructure and get-out-the-vote operations, campaign resources, and Globe reporting on the primary.
The results reinforce the findings of an earlier poll conducted by the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, which last week found Christie at 10 percent and called him “the clear momentum candidate”.
Meanwhile, support for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson is in free-fall, registering just 6%, down 7 points from a WBUR poll in mid-November.
Some 57 percent said that illegal immigration posed a major threat, while 28 percent said it was a minor one.
The two candidates who gained more support than Christie’s 4 percentage points are the candidates he’s trailing.
Rubio was the top “second choice” candidate, taking 15 percent, while Christie received 11 percent.
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WBUR’s poll was conducted among 402 likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire between Sunday, December 6 and Tuesday, December 8.
