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.”

  • @agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
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    -210 months ago

    This is why Trump will not be removed from the ballot, Biden loses if it’s anyone else. Enforcing the law as written is as inconvenient for Dems as it is for Republicans.

    • @dhork@lemmy.world
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      -910 months ago

      If Trump is removed from the ballot, Biden will get some “sudden” diagnosis that forces him to back out of the race for health reasons, then whats-her-name will get nominated by default.

      • @EatATaco@lemm.ee
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        1010 months ago

        This is the same BS that was spewed when Biden first won, claiming it was a backdoor for Harris to be POTUS and he would step down as soon as he was inaugurated. . .and then 2 months. . .and then 2 years. How many times is this nonsense going to be pushed?