Jeb Bush’s net favorability among Republicans has plummeted since July, according to a new poll.
The former Florida governor, once the favorite to win the GOP presidential nomination, has seen his net favorability go from +27 in July to -1 in January, according to a new Gallup poll released Friday.
The dive can be attributed to men, whose demographic’s favorability of Bush has gone down 39 points since July. Women’s favorability of the candidate went down 13 points over the same time.
Bush now has the worst image among Republicans of any GOP candidate.
Bush’s favorability rating seems to have fallen the more voters get to know him. Bush is second to only Donald Trump in that respect.
In July, 81 percent of those polled were familiar enough with Bush to rank him positively or negatively, and that number is now 89 percent. Trump sits at 94 percent when it comes to name recognition.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has become more liked over the last few months.
The New Jersey governor started July with a net favorability rating of just +6 points before seeing that number dip below zero the following month. In the latest poll, Christie’s net favorability is up to +23 points.
The poll is a accumulation of telephone-based surveys conducted from July 8 to Jan. 5, and surveyed more than 44,000 Republicans and Republican-leaning independent U.S. adults. The overall margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points. The July poll of between 800 and 1,000 adults was conducted July 8-21, while the most recent poll of between 800 and 1,000 adults was conducted Dec. 18 – Jan. 5.
