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THE LATEST
* NBC10 Boston:
Former President Donald Trump has solidified his lead in New Hampshire ahead of the state's first-in-the-nation primary, and Nikki Haley is firmly in second, with Ron DeSantis a distant third, according to a new Suffolk University/NBC10 Boston/Boston Globe tracking poll.
The poll results, released Wednesday morning, have Trump at 50%, Haley at 34% and DeSantis with only 5%. Another 3% chose someone else, 6% were undecided and 2% refused to answer. The survey of 500 likely Republican primary voters was conducted from Jan. 15-16. The margin of error is 4.4%.
New tracking polls will be released every day leading up to the Jan. 23 primary. Check NBC10Boston.com every day at 5 a.m. to see the latest results.
* Watch Jamie Dimon, from Davos, criticize MAGA critics and listing off the policy decisions he thinks Donald Trump got right as president:
cc: Katie Reeves, Scot M.
* This New York magazine story includes a brilliant and discouraged description of Joe Biden’s trouble with the left (and worries about a different kind of Trump Fatigue); this is one of the most interesting and important sections of any story about this election so far. #essentialreading
By a more than two-to-one margin (62% to 30%), California voters do not feel that U.S. borders are secure in preventing people from entering the country illegally. In addition, four in ten voters believe that unauthorized immigrants coming across the border are a major burden to the nation. This compares to 30% who view them as a minor burden and 22% who do not believe they are a burden.
Republican voters, conservatives and voters backing Donald Trump for president overwhelmingly concur that U.S. borders are not secure and consider unauthorized immigrants a major burden to the country. By contrast, the opinions of the state’s Democrats, liberals, and those backing President Joe Biden’s bid for re-election hold divided views about the security of the border, and pluralities view unauthorized immigrants as a minor burden.