Final CNN/UNH Poll Has Trump Leading Haley by 11 Points
And then there were two – former President Donald Trump and former U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley will duke it out in the first-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday.
Sunday's final polling before the primary by CNN/University of New Hampshire had Trump ahead 50%-39%.
The sampling of 2,348 with margin of error +/-2.8% was taken Tuesday through Friday of last week, ahead of Sunday afternoon's announcement by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis he was dropping out and endorsing Trump.
Trump was well ahead in registered Republicans; Haley commanded a lead among the independents.
There are 22 delegates to the Republican National Convention up for grabs, and awarded proportionally. New Hampshire, which picks presidential winners about 80% of the time since the turn of the 20th century, had 10 candidate names on the 2016 primary and Trump bested them with more than 35% of the vote after having run second to Sen. Ted Cruz in the Iowa caucuses.
In November, he was a loser to Democrat H