That’s more than double the backing for Marco Rubio (15 percent) and Ted Cruz (12 percent).
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Cruz continues to lead Trump in Iowa. Businessman Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, increased his support in New Hampshire and nationally.
The Fox News poll is conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research, and was conducted by telephone with live interviewers between January 4-7, 2016 among a random national sample of over a thousand registered voters, according to the methodology detailed by the news organization. Jeb Bush, whose numbers have continued to dip ever since he announced his candidature in the summer, gets only four percent, while Carly Fiorina gets three percent, and Chris Christie, John Kasich and Rand Paul each get two percent.
Trump led with 33 percent, followed by Florida Sen.
And even though the poll shows 14 percent of Republicans say they would vote for Hillary Clinton, a much greater percentage of Democratic voters say they’re “100 percent sure” of going for Trump than their Republican counterparts.
In addition, roughly 6 in 10 Republican primary voters in NH would be satisfied with Rubio (65 percent), Christie (62 percent), Cruz (61 percent) or Trump (59 percent) as their party’s presidential nominee. The poll of 504 likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers had a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
While the man at the top remains the same, the battle for second place differs in a NH1 News poll. However, the survey found Bush was in second place, with 11.9 percent, and Kasich was in third, with 11.8 percent.
The race is settling: 56 percent of NH GOP primary voters say they are certain to back their candidate, up from 44 percent who felt that way in mid-November. The survey of 414 likely New Hampshire GOP primary voters had a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.
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The findings indicate that almost 20 percent of Democratic voters would switch teams in a head-to-head against Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.
