Poll: Sanders leads Democratic field in NH

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) leads the Democratic presidential field among New Hampshire primary voters in a Franklin Pierce University-Boston Herald poll released Wednesday.

Sanders leads among likely Granite State primary voters with 29 percent, according to the survey, followed by former Vice President Joe Biden with 21 percent and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) with 17 percent.

{mosads}The poll shows a wide gap between the three leading candidates and the rest of the field, with Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) in fourth place with 6 percent, followed by businessman Andrew Yang with 5 percent and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg with 4 percent.

New Hampshire holds the nation’s first presidential primary each cycle, following the Iowa caucuses.

The survey also found that President Trump’s approval rating among New Hampshire Republicans is strong at around  85 percent. He leads long-shot GOP primary challengers former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld and former Rep. Joe Walsh (Ill.) by 88 percent to 3 percent and 1 percent, respectively.

The survey was conducted Sept. 4-10 among 839 New Hampshire residents and 425 likely Democratic primary voters. It has a 4.8 percentage point margin of error.

It comes one day after an Emerson poll finding Sanders in third place in New Hampshire behind Warren and Biden after leading with 27 percent in February. Buttigieg also fared far better in the Emerson poll, at 11 percent.