CNN's @kaitlancollins:A CNN exit poll has confirmed that 70 percent of Nikki Haley's New Hampshire primary voters were not Republicans, despite their pundits claiming that this was impossible.
Before the vote was tallied, CNN's Kaitlan Collins declared Trump has been "pushing a false claim that Democrats can vote in today's election. As we know, they can't."
Trump has been "pushing a false claim that Democrats can vote in today's election. As we know, they can't." pic.twitter.com/KYx3erv65z
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 24, 2024
However, many people interviewed by the network outside polling places confirmed that they would be voting for Joe Biden in the general, even though they voted for Haley in the GOP primary. NH Dem: “I voted for Nikki Haley as a vote against Trump”
CNN: “If it was Haley vs. Biden who would you vote for?”
NH Dem: “Biden.”
There you have it. Nikki Haley’s “electability” argument is completely gone pic.twitter.com/xlWrfgPTji
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) January 24, 2024
On Wednesday, a CNN exit revealed that only 27 percent of Haley's New Hampshire primary voters were Republicans.
The Hill reports:The poll found 70 percent of voters who backed Haley in the primary on Tuesday were undeclared, or independent, while only 27 percent were Republicans. The remaining 3 percent were unregistered as voters before participating in the primary.
The breakdown for former President Trump’s support in the primary was the exact opposite, according to the exit poll. It found that 70 percent of Trump voters were registered Republicans, while 27 percent were undeclared, and 3 percent were previously unregistered as voters.
Voters in New Hampshire do not need to register as Republican to vote in the GOP primary, but they cannot be registered Democrats.
Haley has now turned her attention to her home state of South Carolina, which also does not require people to be registered Republicans to participate in their primary.
A poll conducted ahead of the Iowa caucuses by NBC News, the Des Moines Register, and Iowa pollster Selzer & Co. found that Haley supporters in Iowa were twice as likely to vote for Biden as they are Trump, should she not win the Republican nomination.
Across the board, just 11 percent of Republican caucus-goes said they would flip and vote for Biden if Trump was the nominee. Looking only at Haley supporters, that number jumped to 43 percent.
Just 23 percent of Haley’s supporters in Iowa said they would vote for Trump over Biden.
