In a hypothetical election match-up between President Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey, h voters overwhelmingly favor the Republican president over the media mogul, a .
Winfrey, a 63-year-old Mississippi native, has recently sparked speculation that she might challenge Trump in the 2020 -- ignited by a recent speech she gave at the Golden Globes. The speculation has prompted national polls that have generally painted a mixed picture of Winfrey's level of support.
But the h voter poll, conducted by the University of New Orleans last week and released on Tuesday, found 60 percent of respondents said given the two options, they would pick Trump. About a third of respondents said they would vote for Oprah, while 7 percent said they were undecided.
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The survey included 722 respondents and conducted by robocall on Jan. 11. The findings have a 3.7 percentage point margin of error, with 95 percent confidence.
Respondents who identified as Democrats were twice as likely to say they would vote for Winfrey. Republicans overwhelmingly voiced support for Trump, and independents and those favoring third parties also leaned strongly toward Trump, the poll's findings show.
"Support for Trump and Winfrey is anchored by the political affiliation of the respondent," UNO's researchers wrote in their analysis of the findings.
Trump won 58 percent of the vote in Louisiana in 2016 to Democrat Hillary Clinton's 38 percent.
A recent national poll from Public Policy Polling found Winfrey and Trump nearly tied, at 44 percent to 43 percent, as . A Marist poll founds Winfrey leading Trump 50 percent to 39 percent, but that poll also showed that a majority of respondents said they don't want her to run.
“Americans’ message to Oprah is, ‘We like you, we would vote for you over Trump, but we don’t want you to run,’” Lee M. Miringoff, director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, .
In h, voters were split along racial and gender lines in their support for Winfrey.
"Men are more likely than women to back Trump while women are more likely than men to report they would vote for Winfrey," UNO's summary states.
Fifty-nine percent of African-American respondents said they would support Winfrey, while white voters are three times more likely to report they would vote for Trump.