Trump leads Fiorina in new NH poll

Donald Trump holds a 10-point lead over Carly Fiorina in the latest CNN/WMUR poll.

The new poll finds Trump receiving 26 percent support from New Hampshire’s likely Republican presidential primary voters. Another 8 percent pick the outspoken billionaire as their second choice.

Those results are up from a similar CNN/WMUR sampling in July, when Trump received 23 percent support from the same demographic.

{mosads}Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, rises to second in the poll with 16 percent, an increase of 15 points since the CNN/WMUR survey in July.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) ranks third with 9 percent, up 6 points since July.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) and former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) round out the GOP’s top six in the poll.

Carson receives 8 percent support while Bush and Kasich tie at 7 percent.

Bush’s results are a sign the former Florida governor’s campaign is possibly losing steam in the Granite State.

He previously held second place behind Trump in July, the new poll said, before dropping from 12 percent to 7 percent now.

Thursday’s results additionally said that 40 percent of Republican voters expect Trump to win their state’s GOP primary in 2016. 

Of those respondents, 27 percent believed Trump would win the general election as well.

CNN/WMUR conducted its latest sampling via the University of New Hampshire Survey Center making telephone calls from Sept. 17-23. It sampled a random assortment of 334 New Hampshire Republicans who plan in voting in their party’s 2016 primary, with a 5.3 percent margin of error.