Iowa Poll: Nearly Half of Nikki Haley Voters Prefer Biden Over Trump

Heading into Monday’s Iowa caucuses, a near-majority of likely votes for former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who has been rising in the polls since December, are coming from voters who would prefer Joe Biden over Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2020 rematch.

That’s according to the latest NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of Iowa voters, released Saturday night. Unsurprisingly, a super-majority of Iowa GOP caucusgoers said they’d support Trump against Biden. But for 43 percent of Haley voters, Biden was the preferred choice. Only 23 percent said they’d break for Trump, while 27 percent said they’d vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or another third-party candidate. The rest were either unsure of their choice or said they wouldn’t vote.

The results demonstrate Haley’s inroads among independent and moderate voters during this primary campaign season. “Haley is consolidating the anti-Trump vote,” pollster J. Ann Selzer, who is in her third decade of conducting this Iowa primary poll, told NBC. “She does well with the people who define themselves as anti-Trump.” On Monday, those voters will include some anti-Trump Iowa independents and Democrats, who are planning on registering to caucus as Republicans to vote for Haley, Axios reported Sunday.

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