New polling from New Hampshire continues to find a lead for Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris as this year’s general election in the latest race for the White House rapidly approaches.
In the Granite State Poll — specifically, an edition where surveying was completed on August 19, Harris led by seven percentage points when Republican nominee Donald Trump and other presidential candidates outside the major parties were also included. She had 50 percent of the support, with Trump at 43 percent. In a head-to-head match-up between just the two major party presidential candidates, Harris nabbed 52 percent to Trump’s 47 percent.
The last time that a Republican presidential candidate won New Hampshire in a general election was 2000, but it was extremely close in 2016, when Trump went up against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. She finished under half a percentage point ahead of Trump in the state. But four years later, Democratic margins bounced back upwards, with Biden winning the state by more than seven percentage points.
In a speech after Trump won this year’s closely watched Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire, he claimed to have won the state in both primary and general elections — the latter of which he’s never actually done.
“You know we won New Hampshire three times now three. We win it every time. We win the primary. We win the generals. We won it and it’s a very, very special place to me,” he said, per CNN. Again, he has never actually won a general election in New Hampshire — although Trump still holds fast to consistently debunked conspiracy theories of widespread election fraud in the 2020 presidential election that put Democratic contender Joe Biden in the White House.
The Granite State Poll is a States of Opinion Project, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Democrats, meanwhile, are now on the other side of their national convention this week in Chicago — days of enthusiastic Democratic cooperation.
