A new polls shows that most New Jersey voters want Chris Christie to exit the 2016 race for the White House and go back to his full-time job as governor.
Sixty-one percent of those asked said Christie should drop out of the race, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. Only 33 percent said Christie, who polled fourth among Republican presidential candidates in the poll, should stay in the race.
Even among New Jersey Republicans, just a bare majority, 53 percent, said Christie should stay in the race, while 40 percent said it is time to drop out.
And if Christie doesn’t end his 2016 presidential bid? Most, 51 percent, said he should leave his position as governor while he runs. This question broke down along party lines, as most Republicans (71 percent) said they want Christie to stay in office, and most Democrats (74 percent) wanted Christie to resign.
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More than six in 10 (63 percent) said that Christie’s presidential campaign is distracting him from issues at home, while 33 percent said it was not. Just 42 percent of Republicans called his campaign a distraction, compared to 79 percent of Democrats who did.
Among New Jersey voters, businessman Donald Trump continues to dominate the field with 31 percent. Ben Carson sits in second place at 21 percent, followed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 15 percent, Christie at 8 percent, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 7 percent, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina each with 4 percent. Other candidates received 1 percent or less, while 6 percent said they were undecided.
The latest polling numbers come as Christie, who failed to earn a average of 2.5 percent across selected polls, fell to Tuesday’s undercard presidential debate on Fox Business Network.
The telephone-based poll was conducted Nov. 4-8, surveying roughly 1,500 New Jersey voters overall with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points. Among the 481 Republicans surveyed, the margin of error is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points, and the 538 Democrats surveyed carry a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
