--- title: Donald Trump Leads New Hampshire Primary Poll description: But Marco Rubio has jumped six points since his strong Iowa caucus showing canonical: https://time.com/4209197/donald-trump-new-hampshire-poll-marco-rubio/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-05T13:19:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:48:02.467Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Holds Lead in New Hampshire as Rubio Gains Ground og:description: Rubio has jumped six points since his strong Iowa caucus showing og:url: https://time.com/4209197/donald-trump-new-hampshire-poll-marco-rubio/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cff83ee8dc00334/69887c48e20a87fbd3a8f631/marco-rubio-new-hampshire.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Republican Presidential Candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) Campaigns In New Hampshire og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Holds Lead in New Hampshire as Rubio Gains Ground twitter:description: Rubio has jumped six points since his strong Iowa caucus showing twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cff83ee8dc00334/69887c48e20a87fbd3a8f631/marco-rubio-new-hampshire.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Holds Lead in New Hampshire as Rubio Gains Ground by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Feb 5, 2016 1:19 PM UTC  Sen. Marco Rubio holds a campaign town hall event at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. on Feb. 4, 2016. Sen. Marco Rubio holds a campaign town hall event at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. on Feb. 4, 2016.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Feb 5, 2016 1:19 PM UTC Donald Trump continues to lead Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary after his second-place finish in Iowa, but Marco Rubio has gained ground on him, according to a new NBC/WSJ/Marist poll conducted after the Iowa results. Trump gets support from 30 percent of likely Republican primary followers — followed by Rubio at 17 percent, Ted Cruz at 15 percent, John Kasich at 10 percent, Jeb Bush at 9 percent and Chris Christie at 4 percent. Last week — before the results in Iowa, where Cruz finished first and Rubio third — Trump was at 31 percent, Cruz 12 percent, Rubio 11 percent, Kasich 11 percent, Bush 8 percent and Christie 7 percent… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-trump-holds-lead-new-hampshire-rubio-gains-ground-n511646) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4209197/donald-trump-new-hampshire-poll-marco-rubio/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4209197/donald-trump-new-hampshire-poll-marco-rubio/"},"headline":"Trump Holds Lead in New Hampshire as Rubio Gains Ground","datePublished":"2016-02-05T13:19:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:48:02.467Z","description":"Rubio has jumped six points since his strong Iowa caucus showing","url":"https://time.com/4209197/donald-trump-new-hampshire-poll-marco-rubio/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cff83ee8dc00334/69887c48e20a87fbd3a8f631/marco-rubio-new-hampshire.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cff83ee8dc00334/69887c48e20a87fbd3a8f631/marco-rubio-new-hampshire.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican Presidential Candidate Sen. 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