The first 2024 Republican primary is just over 10 months away, and in nearly every poll, former President Donald Trump is already winning. Earlier in March, a survey conducted by Emerson College Polling showed the former president crushing the entire potential Republican field in New Hampshire. According to the poll, Trump holds a 41-point lead in a potential Republican primary, with 58% support. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is at 17%, followed by New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu at 7%, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley at 6% and former Vice President Mike Pence at 4%.
Interestingly, however, in the very same survey, Sununu holds a 64% approval among registered Republican voters. That’s right, Sununu, a very popular governor, cannot convince 10% of GOP voters in his home state of New Hampshire that he should be president. (Although to be fair, the poll’s margin of error is +/-3 percentage points, so maybe he could get exactly 10%.)
The first Republican primary is just over 10 months away, and in nearly every poll, former President Donald Trump is winning.
This does not bode well for Sununu’s White House aspirations. But it’s also becoming clear that to beat Trump, there must be a serious effort to change the political landscape. And arguably the first official opportunity to do so is in New Hampshire, because of how the state conducts it primaries.
Simply put, it is time for the center right and principled conservatives to rejoin the Republican Party.
New Hampshire allows for undeclared voters to participate in either the Republican or Democratic primary, whereas voters affiliated with a political party may only vote in that party’s primary. And this is where things get interesting: New Hampshire’s party registration is split almost evenly among Democrats, Republicans and undeclared voters, with undeclared voters currently making up the largest share.
New Hampshire will still be the first-in-the-nation primary for Republicans, while there may not be any…
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