New Hampshire and Iowa are very different places, but exit polls show that Republican primary and caucus voters in both states were similarly unanimous in giving former President Donald Trump two wins in the leadoff nomination contest. I was doing it.
Like in Iowa, a plurality of Republicans in New Hampshire (42%) believe immigration is the most important issue in the 2024 race, and Trump has a strong lead against former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. won the group by a margin of 3 to 1 or more (73% to 22%); According to Fox News Voter analysis.
The former president also beat Haley by a double-digit margin (53% to 40%) among 31% of Granite voters who said the economy and jobs were their most important issues.
As expected, Haley won in a landslide among Republican New Hampshire primary voters who consider themselves independents and lean Democratic.
Undeclared voters made up 13% of the Republican primary district and favored Haley over Trump by a vote count of 60% to 33%.
The gap was even more stark among self-identified Democrats, who made up 10% of likely voters and backed Haley 89% to Trump.
Ms. Haley also defeated Mr. Trump among New Hampshire voters who considered foreign policy the most important issue in the 2024 race, 63% to 30%.
Unfortunately for Haley, however, that group accounted for only 8% of the primary vote.
Conversely, more than half (52%) of primary voters said the U.S. should be “less active” in world affairs, supporting Trump by 43 points over Haley (68% to 25%). .
An AP Votecast survey of Granite State voters reveals stark differences with their Iowa brethren on the issue of abortion, particularly the so-called “heartbeat law,” which bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. became.
Nearly two-thirds (65%) of Iowa Republican caucus attendees support such a ban, and more than half (55%) support Trump.
Live election results from New Hampshire
Only 40% of New Hampshire Republican primary voters supported such restrictions, but more than 7 in 10 of them supported the former president.
Clear majorities of Republicans in New Hampshire (63%) and Iowa (78%) support banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
In both elections, a large portion of that group strongly supported the 77-year-old 45th president. In New Hampshire, it was 64%, and in Iowa, it was 52%.
One difference was the percentage of Republican voters who identified themselves as supporters of President Trump's “Make America Great Again” movement.
While 62% of Iowa caucus-goers said yes, and 74% of them supported Trump, New Hampshire Republican voters were nearly evenly split, with 49% calling themselves MAGA leaders and 50% supporting Trump. I answered that it wasn't.
In the end, a whopping 87% of MAGA supporters in the Granite State supported Trump, but nearly a quarter (23%) of supporters who said they weren't wearing a red hat supported the 45th president anyway. .
