If only the New Hampshire Republican primary were today …

It’s not, of course, but it didn’t stop a pollster from gauging voter sentiment in the state that traditionally hosts the nation’s first presidential primary, with the results forming a pleasing told-you-so for Ohio Gov. John Kasich and his supporters.

Kasich would defeat President Donald Trump by a 52 percent to 40 percent margin among New Hampshire votes in a hypothetical GOP primary match up, according to the poll released today by the American Research Group.

And, Kasich would defeat Vice President Mike Pence by 41 percent to 27 percent, the poll of 600 likely Republican primary voters found. The telephone poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percent.

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The poll was conducted Friday through Sunday after Trump’s late January remarks to the Mexican president in a telephone call painted the front pages of New Hampshire newspapers with outrage.

The beleaguered Trump described New Hampshire as a “drug-infested den” while talking to the Mexican president, not exactly a sentiment that would endear him with Granite State voters.

Trump won the state’s GOP primary in early 2016, receiving 35 percent of the vote to Kasich distant second-place showing of 16 percent.

Poll results showed Kasich “defeated” Trump in large part due to his support among women (64 to 28 percent) and winning over “voters” who disapproved of the job Trump is doing (also 64 to 28 percent).

While saying he has no plans to ever again run for elective office, Kasich is keeping his options open in working to remain a national figure, particularly on failed Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare and his desire to preserve Medicaid coverage for low-income Americans.

Kasich, who neither endorsed nor voted for Trump, also is trying to keep his embers of support alive in New Hampshire by considering offers to speak at various events in New Hampshire, said political spokesman Chris Schrimpf.

Of course, 2020 — the next presidential election — is a lifetime away when it comes to politics.