With the 2024 election only a week away and the polls showing Trump with the advantage, radio personality Michael Graham explained to journalist Mark Halperin that he would “not be stunned” if former President Trump was able to win New Hampshire and possibly other blue states.
In a recent poll from the New Hampshire Journal/Praecones Analytica, former President Trump leads Kamala Harris 50.2% to 49.8% in a state that Republicans haven’t won in years. Graham told Halperin that New Hampshire is the only New England state that could possibly vote for Trump as they view Republican policies very positively.
“Believe it or not, in a state the Democrats have carried 7 of the last 8 times, the Granite State, Donald Trump has a massive 50.2% to 49.8% lead… A month ago, the polling, Saint Ann’s and some and others had Trump losing by about 6.5 [points], and then last Thursday, Emerson came out and Trump was at 50%-47%, losing by 3 [within] margin of error, Graham said, citing the poll. “And then I, of course, every day, tune in go ‘The Morning Meeting’ and I heard Sean’s [Spicer] reporting and I got the numbers and I was stunned.”
Other “subterranean” issues also played a part in the polling such as allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports, Graham explained.
“I think the two things that are moving in these purple-y states, the big one is Kamala Harris is failing the audition or the job,” he said. “She’s just failing. And I think the other one is, you guys have picked up on these subterranean issues that are having effects that people aren’t looking at like these fights over trans issues, guys and girls sports, New Hampshire has been ground zero for that…. If you said Trump’s gonna lose New Hampshire by ten [points], I would not be stunned. If you told me Trump was gonna win New Hampshire by 1 [point], I would not be stunned.”
According to Trump’s former White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, many New Englanders have reevaluated Trump and those who may have not voted for him years ago may change their minds in 2024.
New Hampshire has not voted for a Republican candidate for president since former President George H.W. Bush in 1988.