Donald Trump has maintained a formidable lead in the influential New Hampshire primary, an exclusive poll shows, but a new challenger is emerging there as his top competitor: former UN ambassador Nikki Haley.
The USA TODAY/Boston Globe/Suffolk University survey of likely voters in the first-in-the-nation Republican primary finds Trump at 49% and Haley at 19%. While that gap of 30 percentage points is daunting, she has surged ahead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has lost his standing he once held as the dominant alternative to Trump.