Biden leading Trump in New Hampshire survey

Editor’s note: This file has been updated to note that Dennis Kucinich is a former Ohio congressman.

A CNN/University of New Hampshire poll released Friday found President Biden leading former President Trump in a hypothetical general election match-up in the Granite State.

The poll found Biden leading Trump by 12 points, with Biden receiving 52 percent support in a head-to-head and Trump receiving 40.

Around 6 percent said they would vote for another candidate, and 2 percent said they were not sure who they would vote for.

Hypothetical match-ups between Biden and other Republican candidates were also surveyed, with Biden winning by even larger, double-digit margins over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.

The poll found Biden winning over all of the potential Republican candidates put against him.

As a recent movement attempting to keep Trump off state ballots using the 14th Amendment gained steam, New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan (R) said last week there was no legal grounds not to allow the former president on the ballot. In a news conference, Scanlan said there was no part of the state statute that would allow for the disqualification of a presidential candidate using the amendment.

“Similarly, there is nothing in the 14th Amendment that suggests that exercising the provisions of that amendment should take place during the delegate selection process held by the different states,” Scanlan said at the conference.

There has also been recent tension surrounding the New Hampshire Democratic primary, as the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has considered changes to the state’s first-in-the-nation designation. Democratic challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has criticized the DNC’s possible changes, saying they would cause bias against nonincumbents. 

“The DNC itself is affiliated with tunnel vision,” Dennis Kucinich, former Ohio congressman and Kennedy campaign manager, said in a recent interview with The Hill. “They’re thinking only of the primary and trying to lock in President Biden’s constantly eroding position. And as a result, they’ve overlooked what ought to be the first and foremost concern, and that is New Hampshire’s four electoral votes.”

The poll was conducted Sept. 14-18 online, with 2,107 people from the Granite State completing the survey. The margin of error was 2.1 percent.

Updated at 8:43 a.m. ET