Just under half of likely Iowa GOP caucusgoers who support former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley indicated that they would make a crossover to the Democratic party, saying that they would rather vote …

Just under half of likely Iowa GOP caucusgoers who support former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley indicated that they would make a crossover to the Democratic party, saying that they would rather vote for President Biden over former President Trump.

A new NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll released just one day before the Iowa caucuses found that 43 percent of Haley backers in the state said they would vote for Biden if Trump is the GOP nominee, while 23 percent say they would vote for the former president. Eight percent said they would vote for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Overall, 71 percent of likely GOP caucusgoers said they would vote for Trump in 2024, while only 11 percent said they would vote for Biden.

“Haley is consolidating the anti-Trump vote,” J. Ann Selzer, a pollster who has conducted the Iowa survey over the last three decades, told NBC. “She does well with the people who define themselves as anti-Trump.”

  • Hazzia
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    5 months ago

    While I 100% agree that Trump made plenty of poor decisions for the economy, interest rates are out of the president’s hands. You could say that the Fed’s chairman was appointed by Trump, and is therefore Trump’s fault by proxy, but Biden never replaced that position. The same guy, Jerome Powell, who kept interest rates too low for too long is the same one who raised them to offset inflation.

    Criticisms about handling of the economy should focus more on things they actually had a hand in.