{"id":26052,"date":"2025-12-05T14:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=26052"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:09:53","slug":"heres-who-is-leading-the-gop-pack-ahead-of-2028-and-its-not-close-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=26052","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Who Is Leading The GOP Pack Ahead Of 2028 \u2013 And It\u2019s Not Close At All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey indicates a decisive victor in the 2028 Republican primary if the New Hampshire primary occurred today, and the margin is significant, with Vice President JD Vance defeating his rivals.<\/p>\n<p>For the Republicans pining for a return to the George W. Bush era and desperate to steer the party away from Donald Trump\u2019s MAGA movement, the latest numbers from the Saint Anselm College Survey Center at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics make one thing painfully clear: they\u2019ve got an uphill battle ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>Results were based on online surveys of \u201c2112 New Hampshire registered voters. Surveys were collected between November 18th and 19th, 2025, from cell phone users randomly drawn from a sample of registered voters reflecting the demographic and partisan characteristics of the voting population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It has \u201can overall margin of sampling error of+\/- 2.1%,\u201d it noted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1993194889060688103&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fusajournal.news%2F2025%2F11%2F26%2Fheres-who-is-leading%2F&amp;sessionId=799bf258224a1d275a3ba99620fbdd675a2be0f4&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1993194889060688103\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The survey found:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Vice-President JD Vance leads the Republican presidential field with 57% support, while Pete Buttigieg and Gavin Newsom continue to lead among Democratic primary voters.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The survey asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Looking ahead to the next Presidential election in 2028, if the New Hampshire Presidential Primary were held today, for whom would you vote?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Ted Cruz<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Ron DeSantis<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Tulsi Gabbard<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Nikki Haley<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Vivek Ramaswamy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Marco Rubio<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 JD Vance<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Glenn Youngkin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Other<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022 Unsure<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The results indicate that Vance has garnered 57 percent of the votes, while the closest Republican contender, Secretary of State Rubio, has 9 percent. All other candidates receive 7 percent or lower, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) with just 1 percent and the notably popular Republican Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, with 4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Who do the Democrats want?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and California Governor Gavin Newsom continue to lead the field in the Democratic Presidential Primary. Buttigieg (28%) has opened up a small lead over Newsom (24%).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even though President Donald Trump won\u2019t be on the ballot, it would be prudent for potential GOP candidates to heed the counsel recently offered by James Blair, who served as Trump\u2019s White House deputy chief of staff, in a recent discussion with Politico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re a Republican that wants to run in 2028 right now, you need to focus on keeping Republicans in power for 2026. I think the number one thing everybody can do is focus on the team and helping their team and not focus on themselves,\u201d Blair said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoters will sniff out anybody who has seemed to be sort of focused on themselves,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey indicates a decisive victor in the 2028 Republican primary if the New Hampshire primary occurred today, and the margin is significant, with Vice President JD Vance defeating &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26054,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052\/revisions\/26054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}