Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is the leading choice among Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire, according to a new poll, with more than a quarter of those surveyed expressing support for the progressive candidate in the increasingly growing field of presidential candidates.

Twenty-six percent of Democratic primary voters support Sanders, an independent, when provided a list of declared candidates and those who will possibly join the race, according to the University of New Hampshire’s Granite State Poll .


Trailing Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden is favored by 22 percent of Democratic voters. Sen. Kamala Harris of California and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts followed, with 10 percent and 7 percent, respectively. Fourteen percent of those surveyed remain undecided.

New Hampshire holds the first primary in the presidential election cycle, and is often seen — along with Iowa, which holds the first caucuses — as a determiner of who will go on to become a party’s nominee.

When given an open-ended question, 28 percent of those surveyed said they would vote for Sanders. However, 42 percent of voters were undecided or could not provide a name when asked whom they would vote for.

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When Republican primary voters were asked whom they favored among President Donald Trump and two possible primary challengers, former Gov. John Kasich of Ohio and former Gov. Bill Weld of Massachusetts, 68 percent backed Trump. Only 17 percent say they would support Kasich, and 3 percent would vote for Weld.


The majority of Republican voters surveyed — 57 percent — are still trying to decide whom they will vote for. Only 34 percent say they have definitely decided, and 10 percent say they are leaning toward a specific candidate.

The poll surveyed 604 New Hampshire adults in English by landline and cellphone from Feb. 18 to Feb. 26. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. In addition, 218 likely Republican primary voters and 240 likely Democratic primary voters were included in the sample, with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 6.6 percentage points and 6.3 percentage points, respectively.