Axios reports:
Two new polls from a top Republican polling firm — provided exclusively to Axios — find Florida Gov. DeSantis is running more competitively with former President Trump in Iowa and New Hampshire than he is faring in national surveys.
Driving the news: The surveys, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies from March 21 to 23 for an outside client (not a candidate or super PAC) found DeSantis leading Trump by eight points (45%-37%) in a head-to-head matchup in Iowa and tied with Trump (39%-39%) in New Hampshire.
There haven’t been any independent polls of the Iowa caucus to date, and the few independent New Hampshire polls have been all over the place. While the University of New Hampshire recently found DeSantis leading by 12 points, Emerson found Trump ahead by 41 points.