“‘FAKE NEW HAMPSHIRE POLL WAS RELEASED ON BIRDBRAIN. JUST ANOTHER SCAM!’”
That line got here in a social-media put up Friday from former President Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential major’s front-runner, as he reacted to a brand new ballot targeted on the important thing state of New Hampshire.
Trump’s criticism of the American Analysis Group survey got here after it confirmed GOP rival Nikki Haley getting her greatest assist to this point in New Hampshire, scoring 29%, in contrast with Trump’s 33%.
The ballot gives a contemporary signal of momentum for Haley, a former South Carolina governor and ex-ambassador to the United Nations, in reference to whom Trump has used the derogatory epithet “birdbrain.” A separate New Hampshire survey earlier this week additionally had Haley gaining on Trump, though she was nonetheless 15 factors behind him, and an Iowa ballot prompt that her standing is bettering in that key state as nicely.
Within the new American Analysis Group survey, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie scored 13% assist, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis acquired 6% and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy was at 5%.
New Hampshire’s Republican presidential major is scheduled for Jan. 23, eight days after Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses.
