A new poll showing GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley closing to within striking range of frontrunner Donald J. Trump in New Hampshire has given a shot of holiday cheer to a media that has been eager to anoint her as the 2024 Republican party nominee.
According to the survey from the American Research Group, the former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has closed ground on the embattled former president who had been running away with the race, showing her now trailing by a mere four percentage points in the key early voting state that will shape the media’s early anti-Trump narrative in the primaries.
The numbers which are based on a telephone survey of likely New Hampshire Republican voters have Trump at 33 percent with Haley at 29 percent, followed by one-issue candidate Chris Christie at 13 percent, a disappointing showing for the blustery former New Jersey governor who has bet the house on a strong showing in the Granite State where he was walloped in 2016, the last time that he ran for the White House.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy were in the mid-single digits with no-hoper and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson at a dismal one percent.
The current frontrunner reacted by noting that the numbers didn’t exactly come from Gallup.
“FAKE NEW HAMPSHIRE POLL WAS RELEASED ON BIRDBRAIN. JUST ANOTHER SCAM! RATINGS CHALLENGED FOXNEWS WILL PLAY IT TO THE HILT. SUNUNU NOW ONE OF THE LEAST POPULAR GOVERNORS IN U.S. REAL POLL TO FOLLOW,” Trump said on Truth Social
(Screenshot: Truth Social)
The runaway leader also posted a poll that shows him clobbering the media darling by 30.
(Screenshot: Truth Social)
There was also much skepticism about the American Research Group’s shock poll from users on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
This is such a fake story. No one likes Haley besides Fox and the rhino establishment
— jbcali916 (@americafirst186) December 22, 2023
Imagine believing this
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) December 22, 2023
Surprise as in “fake”
— A Deplorable (@Deplorable1619) December 22, 2023
I call bullshit
— Hydro (@DocHollywood406) December 22, 2023
Nobody believes you at all. We all see the deep state pushing their corrupt candidate.
It will never work.
— The Last Days Emergency Broadcast (@lastdays2030) December 22, 2023
Yet she’s still down 30 in the more credible poll that came out the day before.
— Pro Swing Trading (@Pro__Trading) December 22, 2023
In hustling Haley to try to beat the Democrats at the identity politics game that they have perfected, the monied RINO establishment risks a major backfire if she doesn’t appeal to suburban women and swing voters. Her squishiness on principled conservative social issues is a deal killer with much of the Republican base – especially Trump supporters – and if they do manage to get her coronated onstage at the Fiserv Forum next summer, they may be rubber-stamping a second term for Joe Biden and his wrecking crew.
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