While Ben Carson continues to do well in Iowa, New Hampshire seems to be an entirely different situation.
According to a new Fox News poll, Carson — who has been atop the GOP field alongside Donald Trump for much of the past month, and is currently third in the Washington Examiner‘s presidential power rankings — has begun to collapse in New Hampshire, with the former neurosurgeon pulling in only 9 percent support.
Meanwhile, Trump remains steady and leading in the Granite State with 27 percent, with Sen. Marco Rubio taking over second in command with 13 percent. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz sits in third with 11 percent ahead of Carson and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 9 percent.
Carson’s fall in the new poll is echoed by a recent Gravis poll, which showed Carson falling from 16 percent to seven percent support in less than a month.
While Trump continues to lead, he fairs the worst against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — losing out 47-40 to her in a head-to-head matchup. Meanwhile, Rubio does the best amongst those in the GOP field against Clinton — topping her 47-40 in the state.
The new poll only adds to a shaky week for the Carson campaign, which saw one of his national security advisers talk openly about the former neurosurgeon’s struggles on foreign policy with the New York Times. That came on the heels of a rough interview with Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace on Sunday, during which the candidate was unable to say which nations he would call first to form a coalition to combat the Islamic State — two days after the Paris terror attack.
