There’s one Republican candidate clearly ahead in New Hampshire, according to a new poll. And there are a lot of them slugging it out for second.
A new survey from Suffolk University finds Donald Trump maintaining a solid double-digit lead in the “first-in-the-nation primary”, with a haul of 27 percent. That’s good for a 15-point edge over his closest competitor — the exact name of which is anyone’s guess. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Ohio governor John Kasich and Senator Ted Cruz can all make a claim for runner-up. Kasich and Cruz are both at 12 percent, with Bush at 11 percent.
Senator Marco Rubio isn’t far behind at 10 percent.
The numbers approximate an average of polls during the last 10 days, showing Trump in the lead with Bush, Cruz, Kasich and Rubio all within a few notches of each other — but all trailing by 15 points or more.
The Suffolk survey of 500 likely voters in the Feb. 9 primary finds a starker contrast in another area: electability. When asked which candidate has the best chance of winning the general election, 41 percent of those polled selected Trump. The next closest name on the list is at a hair more than 15 percent.
His name? “Undecided.”
