Hillary Clinton leads Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by 14 percentage points in a new poll of the Democratic race in New Jersey.
The Quinnipiac University poll showed Clinton earning the support of 54 percent of likely voters in the Garden State’s Democratic primary, while Sanders got 40 percent. An additional six percent of likely voters were undecided, but 15 percent said they may change their mind before the June 7 contest.
While Clinton has a comfortable lead, Sanders performs much better in a hypothetical general election matchup against Donald Trump. The socialist senator bests Trump by 12 percentage points, 49-37, while Clinton has a 7 point advantage over Trump, 45-38.
“Donald Trump’s name was all over Atlantic City in the glory days of casinos, but since the bankruptcies, the Trump name doesn’t look like a political winner in New Jersey,” said Maurice Carroll, Quinnipiac University poll assistant director, in a statement. “Sen. Bernie Sanders hangs in there, but New Jersey looks solid for Secretary Hillary Clinton in the June 7 Democratic primary. Some people are ‘feeling the Bern.’ But in New Jersey, the Bern is lukewarm at best.”
Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,989 New Jersey voters from May 10-16 with a margin of error of 2.2 percentage points. The survey included 696 likely Democratic primary voters with a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points.
