New Hampshire Democrats have lined up behind Vice President Kamala Harris, and she holds a small lead over Donald Trump in presidential election polling conducted after Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection.

A July 23-25 University of New Hampshire poll of about 3,000 likely voters in the state showed Harris with 49 percent support, Trump at 43 percent and independent Robert F. Kennedy at 4 percent.

The poll showed 94 percent of self-identified Democrats support Harris, up from 84 percent who supported Biden in May. Meanwhile, 88 percent of Republicans support Trump. Also, 45 percent of independents support Harris, while 33 percent support Trump.

On July 21, Biden announced he would not seek a second term and endorsed Harris. This came three weeks after a presidential debate in which he lost his train of thought at times and sometimes made halting and disjointed statements.

The announcement came after a number of nationally prominent Democrats called for him to drop out of the race. It also came after Biden’s small lead in some states, including New Hampshire, turned into a small deficit.

In a post on X, N.H. Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley thanked Biden for his decision and called him a “True American Patriot.”

The party also put up a post saying, “We are so excited to congratulate Kamala Harris on earning the support to become our presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States!”

Carlos Cardona, a 2024 delegate to the Democratic National Convention, also posted last week, “The last time I felt this kind of excitement, especially here in New Hampshire, was 2008, and that was Barack Obama when he visited Laconia.”

The last Republican to win a presidential general election in the Granite State was George W. Bush in 2000.

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu predicted more than a year ago that Harris would end up as the Democratic nominee for president. He also initially opposed Trump.

In an opinion essay in The New York Times on Aug. 21, 2023, Sununu said:

“If Mr. Trump is the Republican nominee for president in 2024, Republicans will lose up and down the ballot. … Every candidate with an R next to his or her name, from school board to the statehouse, will be left to answer for the electoral albatross at the top of the ticket.”

After Trump dominated early Republican primaries this year, Sununu said he would support him.

Meanwhile, national polls show an extremely close presidential race.

A poll of 1,000 registered voters across the country, sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, showed support for Harris at 45 percent, with Trump at 44 percent.