A new poll shows 2024 presidential hopeful Nikki Haley slimming former President Donald Trump’s previously commanding lead in the race for the 2024 Republican nomination to just 4 points in New Hampshire, prompting the former commander-in-chief to label the poll as “fake” and a “scam.”
The poll, released on Dec. 21 by American Research Group, Inc., shows President Trump leading the pack with 33 percent support among likely Republican primary voters in the New Hampshire primary—but with Ms. Haley not far behind.
According to the poll, Ms. Haley, who was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Trump, has the support of 29 percent of likely GOP voters in New Hampshire—a difference of just 4 points, made all the more concerning for team Trump as the poll’s margin of error is 4 percent.
President Trump reacted to Fox News’s coverage of the New Hampshire poll in a scathing Friday morning post on social media.
“Fake New Hampshire poll was released on Birdbrain,” President Trump said on Truth Social, referring to Ms. Haley by a pejorative nickname he coined a few months ago.
“Just another scam! Ratings challenged FoxNews will play it to the hilt,” he continued. “Sununu now one of the least popular governors in the U.S. Real poll to follow.”
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, recently endorsed Ms. Haley for president in 2024, calling her “not some big government candidate with some big government mentality, but someone that can actually sit in the White House and say how do I put individuals first.”
Ms. Haley responded to the endorsement by saying: “It doesn’t get any better than this to go and get endorsed by the ‘Live Free or Die’ governor. It’s about as rock solid as an endorsement that we can get.”
‘Two Person Race’ vs ‘Fake Poll’
Ms. Haley has been gaining on President Trump in New Hampshire since September, with a poll released by the Saint Anselm College Survey Center on Dec. 20 showing her with 30 percent support among likely GOP primary voters, compared to President Trump’s 44 percent.
A survey from the same pollster carried out in September showed Ms. Haley with 15 percent support in the early voting state, with her latest numbers suggesting she has managed to double her support in New Hampshire.
After the poll from American Research Group was released on Thursday, Mr. Sununu took to X to comment that she’s closing in on President Trump.
“This is a two person race,” he wrote.
President Trump was asked about the poll by conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt on Friday.
“Are you worried about Nikki Haley in New Hampshire?” Mr. Hewitt asked.
“No, I’m not worried about it. I think it was a fake poll,” President Trump said. “I saw the one poll where I was up by 4 or 5 points. It’s a fake poll.”
The American Research Group poll was carried out from Dec. 14 to Dec. 20, on a sample of 600 likely Republican primary voters.
‘Right President At the Right Time’
Ms. Haley has avoided criticism of President Trump, calling her former boss the “right president at the right time” when responding to a question during a campaign appearance in September in New Hampshire.
“He broke things that needed to be broken; he listened and brought in a group of people who felt had been unheard, like where I grew up—rural South Carolina. He was strong on foreign policy and getting America’s respect in the world,” she said.
At the same time, she said President Trump was “thin skinned and easily distracted.”
Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist in New Hampshire, told The Epoch Times in a recent interview that he believes Mr. Sununu’s endorsement would give her a campaign a major boost.
Calling Mr. Sununu “one of the most popular governors in America,” Mr. Bartlett said the governor’s support for Ms. Haley “is the biggest political endorsement in the history of New Hampshire.”
For his part, Mr. Sununu has been critical of the 45th president, calling him “[expletive] crazy” and saying at a 2022 political roast in Washington that he thinks President Trump belonged in a mental institution.
Mr. Sununu wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times in August that for Republicans “to win, they must break free of Mr. Trump’s drama, step out of his shadow, go on offense, attack, and present their case.”
The animosity seems mutual, with President Trump calling Mr. Sununu a RINO, or “Republican in name only,” and saying he “never liked him.”
Alice Giordano contributed to this report.
Haley’s plagiarized Trump campaign is as original as the New Hampshire motto of “Live Free or Die” was stolen from Patrick Henry and his “Give me Liberty or give me death”, speech given to the second Virginia Convention in 1775, urging Virginians to resist the British tyranny and fight for their freedoms;
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” The kind of slavery he referenced for the whites at the time was the same we have today, TAX SLAVERY without representation, just like the hundreds of billions Biden seeks in Presidential forgiveness of student loans,, or money given to illegal aliens at the border having chained the border patrols from doing their duty.
They call it the granite state because it is run by a Democrat party of block heads that allow Democrats to vote in Republican Primaries which in 2024 will be used to lopsidedly diminish Trump and promote socialist liberalism, not elevate Conservative values. Their puny 4 electoral votes aren’t worth the media coverage that gets spent on them. As New Hampshire goes, so goes the DIS-Union.
Trump calling the poll that shows Nikki Haley closing a ‘scam’ just goes to show how much the wanta-be Dictator Trump [he even said to Sean Hannity on Fox he would be Dictator] is INSECURE and IMMATURE {calling opponents names & DE-HUMANIZING future victims by calling the ‘vermin’ as Dictator Hitler did to the Jews}. Nikki Haley is willing to EARN the votes of people while Dictators and wanta-be dictators don’t debate.
#Never_N_Haley
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#FAllRINOTypes
#DeathToTheDemoNcratParty
California #Hispanics4TRUERepublicans
I agree. MORE and more trump’s attitude is similar to a 3 yr old, throwing a temper tantrum.
OlDave – did you support- “Hil-liar-y Clinton said “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it.”
Maybe you are ate up with TDS. Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their unjustified hatred of Donald Trump, to the point they will abandon all logic and reason.
Symptoms for this condition can be very diverse, ranging from racist or hate filled outbursts to the point at which they have complete disconnection from reality.
TDS is a legitimate psychotic condition. These people have a total irrational hatred of President Trump. They can give you no rational reason and just spit out nonsense. Even the TDS sufferers don’t understand why.
Say what you want about Trump, but he is no unkown element in the department of leadership and doing the right thing for THE PEOPLE, who like Biden hid from THE PEOPLE as a executive leadership unknown. WE have 4 years of propen prosperity to show for him. Better to go with the guy who brought prosperity and fulfilled campaign promises that you know, than the basement dwelling, or female gendered flavor of the day whose experience in executive crisis decision making is either an unknown quality, or influenced by a passion to elect the first female that could be clouding making the right choice. Call me prejudiced, but in dangerous times of war awaiting beihnd every corner, I want a strong man of action running things, not the next social gender experiment to see if some woman can become the next Margaret Thatcher, but we just get another power hungry Hillary in disguise. For everythng there is a season, and we need to first get out of our winters of discontent, brought on by fast talking social experimentors whose only talent is in deceiving THE PEOPLE.
Assuming he wins, i certianly hope he THINKS ABOUT HIS ‘advisors’ this time, and just doesn’t listen to the deep staters.. AND GETS PROPER folks in there.
Isn’t it just like an IMMATURE kid to react negatively when HE MIGHT LOSE? If Trump was TRULY wanting to ‘serve the people’ he would welcome the better shot at defeating Biden [or some other Democrat]. While by some polls Trump defeats Biden by 2-3% [within the margin of error] Nikki Haley defeats Biden [or some other Democrat by 17%. Trump has a HISTORY of losing to Biden [multiple investigations found NO EVIDENCE of widespread fraud/election ‘stealing’ and even if there was is Trump s..o.. dumb he’d put himself in that situation again?]
Haley is a backstabbing turncoat. Why would he want to give her another chance? We need for him to pick a strong 100% conservative who can follow and continue turning this country back to a Constitutional Republic. Haley has proven she can not be trusted. I would not vote her for dogcatcher in NYC.
Like the January 6th, 2001, event. Mr. Trump will come up with something to disrupt any upset but this time no miscalculation (not enough people showed up to act out last time). He will somehow get GOP New Hampshire nomination anyway he can. His base active and obedient.