A strong majority of New Hampshire voters - including 40 percent of Republicans surveyed - say it would be a good thing if President Donald Trump faced a primary in 2020, according to the latest New Hampshire Journal poll.
Further, nearly 60 percent of unaffiliated voters say Trump getting challenged by his own party in 2020 would be a good thing, according to the survey.
The results, according to the NH Journal:
- 56 percent overall say a GOP challenge to Trump would be a good thing.
- 27 percent overall say it would be a bad thing.
- 47 percent of Republicans say it would be a bad thing.
- 40 percent of Republicans say it would be good thing.
- 57 percent of unaffiliated voters say it would be a good thing.
"The fact that 40 percent of Republicans in an early and influential state like New Hampshire think a Trump primary challenge would be 'a good thing' should get the GOP’s attention," wrote NHJ politics editor Michael Graham. "The fact that nearly 60 percent of unaffiliated voters — all of whom can also vote in the 2020 primary —agree raises the stakes even higher."
Trump owns a 72 percent approval rating among New Hampshire Republicans, 10 points below the national average, according to the poll.
Despite that, 78 percent of New Hampshire Republicans said it's somewhat to very likely they would vote for Trump in the next election, according to the survey.
Survey results are based on a statewide sample of 626 registered voters in New Hampshire. The margin of error for the entire sample is plus or minus 3.9 percent.
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