Multiple polls released out of New Hampshire this week point to a tight general election battle between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.
The latest Granite State Poll from the University of New Hampshire, released Thursday, shows Trump trailing Biden by just three points in the heavily Democratic state in the five-way race for the White House.
Biden leads with 44% support, Trump with 41%. Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is third with 3%, Green Party candidate Jill Stein with 2% and independent Cornel West with 1%.
Republicans appear to be more eager to vote for Trump than Democrats are to support Biden: In five-way races, Trump is supported by 90 percent of Republicans and Biden by 86 percent of Democrats. But anti-Trump Republicans are more likely to vote for Biden than anti-Biden Democrats are to vote for Trump.
While Biden has the support of 6% of Republicans, the 45th president has the support of just 1% of Democrats, and in New Hampshire, a state that has gone to Democrats in the past five presidential elections, Biden also leads among independents (41% to 32%).
In a two-way election between Trump and Biden, Biden received 52 percent of the vote to Trump’s 48 percent.
The poll was conducted among 1,140 people who voted in the general election from May 16 to 20, and has a margin of error of 1. [MOE] ±2.9 percentage points.
This follows a New Hampshire Journal/Parecones Analysica poll conducted on Monday. Showing The three presidential nominees are neck and neck with Kennedy at 37 percent each in a three-way race, with Kennedy receiving 15 percent.
Jonathan Klingler, Principal Analyst, Praecones Analytica Said The Journal reported that Biden won just one in four independent voters.
“Compared to exit polls from the 2020 presidential election, support for Biden among independents and undeclared voters in New Hampshire has dropped significantly. In 2020, Biden won about 60% of these voters, but if the election were held today, he would only win about a quarter of them,” he said.
The poll was conducted among 862 registered voters from May 15 to 20. The MOE was ±3.33 percentage points.
