Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump still leads the GOP pack in New Hampshire, however a new Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll shows that U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are gaining ground.
According to the poll of likely GOP primary voters:
- Donald Trump, 26 percent;
- Marco Rubio, 12 percent;
- Ted Cruz, 12 percent;
- Chris Christie, 11 percent;
- Jeb Bush, 10 percent;
- John Kasich, 8 percent;
- Carly Fiorina, 6 percent;
- Ben Carson, 5 percent;
- Rand Paul, 3 percent;
"Collectively these more mainstream candidates are having a resurgence," said pollster R. Kelly Myers of RKM Research and Communications, which conducted the poll for Franklin Pierce and the Herald Dec. 13-17,
The Boston Herald reports.
And while candidates Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina were once surging in the polls, they're numbers have significantly dropped showing that voters are starting to turn towards more established GOP figures.
"The other two outsiders have completely fallen off the face of the earth," pollster Myers said. "Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson are gone."
In terms of favorability, The Boston Herald reports that two-thirds of likely Republican primary voters view Florida Sen. Marco Rubio "very" or "somewhat" favorably, while 17 percent hold an unfavorable view.
Trump, however, holds a 55 percent favorability rating while 41 percent hold and unfavorable view.
On the Democratic side, Myers noted, "I think there's a little bit more inevitability."
According to the poll, Hillary Clinton is in a virtual tie with Bernie Sanders by a 48 to 46 percent margin and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley only holds 2 percent.
In terms of favorability on the Democratic side, the Herald notes that both Sanders and Clinton are viewed favorably by more than 80 percent of Democratic primary voters.
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