Poll: NJ Voters Don’t Want Christie to Run for President
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Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — New Jersey voters don’t want their governor to run for the White House, a new Quinnipiac University poll out Thursday finds.
Among those surveyed, 53 to 40 percent say that Chris Christie would not make a good president.
Fifty to 44 percent of voters don’t even want to see him run and, if he does, Christie should resign from office, say 62 to 32 percent of voters.
The survey also asks quite a unique question: Are American voters ready for a “Jersey Guy” president like Christie? Garden State voters say no, 49 to 43 percent.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has more support in the state, beating Christie in a hypothetical match up, 50 to 39 percent.
“Even Jersey guys, actually Jersey girls, don’t think the nation will go for a Jersey guy like Gov. Christopher Christie,” Maurice Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said.
“Besides that, we’d sooner vote for the girl from New York, Hillary Clinton. She beats all the probable Republican candidates, including the governor. He does better than the other Republicans but he still loses his home state,” Carroll added.
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