Opinion Today
January 10, 2024
‘Love/Hate’: How 8 Iowa Caucus Voters Feel About Donald Trump Patrick Healy, Kristen Soltis Anderson & Adrian J. Rivera, New York Times [unlocked] “It seems like there’s a front-runner that can’t be beat,” said Caleb, a 27-year-old who joined a recent Times Opinion focus group of Iowa voters who plan to attend the G.O.P. caucuses on Monday night. The front-runner, of course, is Donald Trump, who has a roughly 30-point lead in Iowa polls and an even bigger lead in some national polls. We wanted to use this month’s focus group as an opportunity to hear what Republican voters in Iowa are thinking about him, the race and the country in general. • An audio recording of the session.
GOP primary: Trump holds a big lead Eli Yokley, Morning Consult Trump leads his rivals for the Republican nomination by 52 percentage points among potential GOP primary voters nationwide. With 65% support among the Republican Party’s expected electorate, Trump’s backing is down slightly from a record-high 69% reached in late December. DeSantis is backed by 13% of the GOP’s expected electorate, leading Haley, who’s supported by 11% of potential primary voters. Biden leads Trump Cameron Easley, Morning Consult Trump, the likeliest Republican presidential nominee for 2024, trails Biden by 1 percentage point (42% to 43%) in our latest national tracking survey. That’s a 2-point swing from our last update, when Trump led Biden by 1 percentage point in surveys concluded on Jan. 1.
New Hampshire: Haley narrows gap with Trump, but he's still far ahead with 2 weeks to go Susan Page, Savannah Kuchar & Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today In an exclusive USA TODAY/Boston Globe/Suffolk University Poll, Trump leads Haley in New Hampshire 46%-26%, with former New Jersey governor Chris Christie at 12% and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in single digits, at 8% and 2%. The former president's 20-percentage-point lead is huge, but it's a significant change from our October poll, when Trump held a 30-point lead over Haley. New Hampshire: It's not the economy, stupid. Democracy is the top issue for Dems, independents Susan Page, Sudiksha Kochi & Savannah Kuchar, USA Today For Democratic and independent voters in New Hampshire this year, the most important issue facing the United States isn't the economy, the sort of kitchen-table quandaries that more often than not determine presidential elections. It's the future of democracy. New Hampshire: Haley trims Trump’s lead to single digits Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has trimmed former President Donald Trump’s lead in the Republican primary race in New Hampshire to single digits, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire. Trump still holds a meaningful lead in the poll, with the backing of 39% of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire compared to Haley’s 32%.