The Emerson College Polling/KRQE News 13 poll, released Wednesday, shows 40% of Democratic voters going for Haaland and 24% for Bregman, while 36% of voters remain undecided. Haaland has a 24-point lead among women and a 30-point advantage among voters with college degrees. Haaland also has a slimmer seven-point lead among men and a three-point lead among voters without college degrees.
Although a majority of independent voters said they were undecided, the poll found that independent voters who want to participate in the Democratic primary opted for Bregman over Haaland.
“Deb has led in every poll by double digits and maintains a five-to-one cash advantage. By every metric, this race is over,” Dylan McArthur, Haaland’s campaign manager, said in a statement.
The poll also found that the majority – 61% – of Republican voters are still undecided.
Longtime Rio Rancho Mayor Gregg Hull led the three candidates with 21%. Former state cabinet secretary and hospital executive-turned cannabis CEO Duke Rodriguez held 10% and communications professional Doug Turner, a latecomer to the race, had 9%.
The poll found that New Mexico voters likely to cast ballots in the primary ranked health care and the economy as their top issues. Subsequently, they listed crime, education, housing affordability, “threats to democracy” and immigration.
On the campaign trail, candidates from both parties have often shared proposals for reshaping – or tearing down and starting over – the state’s troubled child welfare agency. The poll reported that nearly half of surveyed voters disapproved of the job Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is doing with the Children, Youth and Families Department while 18% approve and 28% had no opinion. Nearly 46% of voters said they would vote for a constitutional amendment that stripped the governor of the ability to appoint CYFD’s head.
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