Getty New Hampshire tracking poll: Rivals gain on Trump, Sanders

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders continue to lead in New Hampshire, but their competitors are tightening the gap.

That’s according to the latest UMass Lowell/7News tracking poll of New Hampshire primary voters — the first taken with three full days of data after Iowa.


On the Republican side, Trump leads with 34 percent, 2 percentage points down from Monday’s poll. Trailing Trump are Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (15 percent), Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (14 percent), Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (8 percent) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (5 percent).

All other candidates are at 4 percent of below, but 8 percent of likely voters are still undecided and nearly one in two (42 percent) say they could still change their minds.

Among Democrats, the Vermont senator has a 15-point lead (55 percent to 40 percent) over Clinton with likely Democratic primary voters. That represents a tightening of the race since the last poll released on Feb. 1, where Sanders led Clinton 61 percent to 30 percent.

The telephone poll of New Hampshire registered voters includes 434 Democratic likely primary voters and 500 Republican likely primary voters. The margin of error for the Democratic voters is plus or minus 5.24 and plus or minus 4.8 for Republicans.