Marco Rubio’s support triples: New Hampshire poll
US Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio has tripled his standing in a New Hampshire poll of primary voters in the last two months.
The Florida senator is now a strong challenger to Donald Trump who still maintains his lead in the GOP primary field, shows a Monmouth University poll released Monday.
Trump with 26 percent of the vote in the latest survey is in the lead standing 10 percentage points ahead of his closest competitor retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
Jeb Bush, once considered to be a frontrunner, has support of only 7 percent of likely primary voters in New Hampshire.
Rubio, who is in third place at 13 percent, is up from 4 percent from the last Monmouth New Hampshire poll in September. However, both Carson and Trump dropped from September.
Rubio's favorability rating also increased since September by 12 percent reaching 62 percent, resulting from a widely praised debate performance last week.
“Marco Rubio’s standout performance in the last debate seems to have paid dividends in a contest that was supposed to be dominated by his former mentor, Jeb Bush,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute in West Long Branch, New Jersey.
In the CNBC debate last week, Rubio challenged Bush winning applause from the audience after he criticized the US media.
Also on Friday, the New York Times reported that Paul Singer, a major billionaire donor and fundraiser, will support Bush.
In addition, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) Monday endorsed Rubio for president.
Becoming the first sitting senator to throw his support behind Rubio, Gardner said the US "needs a new generation of leadership."
He said Rubio’s "excellent job" Rubio in last week's debate is proof that he is "somebody they can be excited about."
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