A majority of registered voters see both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush as figures of the past even when looking ahead to 2016, according to a survey released Monday.
The new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that Americans deem the former secretary of State and the former governor of Florida as representative of “policies of the past.”
Specifically, 51 percent of respondents said Clinton “would represent too much of a return to the policies of the past,” while 60 percent said the same of Bush.
Contrarily, only 44 percent agreed that Hillary “would provide the new ideas and vision the country will need for the future.” For Bush, that figure was even worse at 27 percent.
The survey also asked members of the Republican and Democratic Parties who they could envision themselves supporting for president when voting in their respective primaries.
Eighty-six percent of those planning to vote in the Democratic primary could see themselves voting for Hillary Clinton. The former secretary of State handedly beat out Vice President Joe Biden (54 percent), Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (51 percent), Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (21 percent) and other potential challengers for the Democratic nomination in this category.
In contrast, Bush didn’t fare as well against his potential GOP foes. While 49 percent of those voting in the Republican primary could envision themselves voting for Bush, he was eclipsed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (56 percent), Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (53 percent) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (52 percent).
The poll was conducted between March 1 and 5 and involved 1,000 American voters.
