Just under half of likely Iowa GOP caucusgoers who support former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley indicated that they would make a crossover to the Democratic party, saying that they would rather vote for President Biden over former President Trump.

A new NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll released just one day before the Iowa caucuses found that 43 percent of Haley backers in the state said they would vote for Biden if Trump is the GOP nominee, while 23 percent say they would vote for the former president. Eight percent said they would vote for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Overall, 71 percent of likely GOP caucusgoers said they would vote for Trump in 2024, while only 11 percent said they would vote for Biden.

“Haley is consolidating the anti-Trump vote,” J. Ann Selzer, a pollster who has conducted the Iowa survey over the last three decades, told NBC. “She does well with the people who define themselves as anti-Trump.”

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    11 months ago

    Libs polarizing between “this should be super easy” and “omg everything is about to explode if we don’t pick the other old-ass-white-man” is always going to be wild to me.

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      11 months ago

      Doesn’t matter if it’s wild to you. It’s reality.

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        11 months ago

        Does this pertain to “this should be super easy,” or does this pertain to the latter? Your comment doesn’t make sense to me.