IOWA POLL: Haley Supporters TWICE As Likely To Vote Biden Than Trump If She Loses Primary
Voters who support Republican Nikki Haley as the GOP nominee in 2024 are twice as likely to support Joe Biden as they are Donald Trump, should the contest come down to a 2020 repeat.
That’s according to a new poll from NBC News, the Des Moines Register, and top Iowa pollster Selzer & Co. released a day before the Iowa Caucuses take place amid record cold temperatures.
Among the questions, the poll asked whether voters who had a preferred candidate would vote for Trump if he were the nominee, or would they vote for Biden, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., or other third party or etc. And among Nikki Haley’s supporters was the surprise result.
Nearly half of the polled Haley supporters, 43%, said they’d go for Biden over Trump, vs. just 23% who said they’d pick Trump over Biden.
The idea of Republican Iowa caucus voters who support a Republican candidate for president defecting just to vote against Trump is a somewhat startling result and stands out from the overall picks of the polled caucus voters.
NBC reports that “these new findings from the latest NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of Iowa further illustrate the degree to which Haley is bringing in support from independents, Democrats and Republicans who have been uneasy with Trump’s takeover of the GOP.”
If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee in the general election in November, would you vote for him, vote for Joe Biden, vote for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., or vote for some other third-party candidate?
Jan. 7-12 among likely Iowa caucus-goers. Margin of error of plus or minus 3.7%. Margins of error plus or minus 8.3 points among Haley supporters.
The same poll shows Trump is by far the first choice among Iowa Republican caucus voters, at 48% vs. second place Haley at less than half that much with 20%. Gov. Ron DeSantis was the first choice among just 16%, but beat Haley as the second choice behind Trump.
