Biden beats Trump in New Hampshire: poll

Most Democratic voters in New Hampshire want someone other than President Biden to run despite the fact he would beat former President Donald Trump in a second head-to-head presidential matchup, according to new polling.

“In a hypothetical 2024 presidential matchup between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Biden leads Trump 42% to 38%,” pollsters from Emerson College and 7 News WHDH found after sampling over 1,000 Granite State voters.

Trump’s support in his own party has not suffered despite several ongoing investigations or the sense that some Republicans want to move on to new candidates amid a slowly broadening field. The 45th president, according to pollsters, would garner more than three times as much support as his closest theoretical rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, polling 58% to 17%, with New Hampshire’s Gov. Chris Sununu coming in third at 7% and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley at 6%.

Former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo showed 4% and 2% support, respectively. Among candidates picked by polled voters, so far only Trump and Haley have announced they will seek the White House in 2024.

“Similar to our February national poll, Trump finds his primary base among young voters: 67% of Republican primary voters under 35 support Trump as the nominee. Unlike the national survey, where DeSantis found a base of voters over 65 and those with higher educational attainment, DeSantis holds no such base at this time among New Hampshire Republicans,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said with the release of the poll.