By The Staff | The Save Jersey Blog
There are still five months left to go, Save Jerseyans, but Donald Trump has a healthy-sized hill to climb in New Jersey if he wants to overcome Hillary Clinton.
A brand new CBS/YouGov poll out on the eve of the New Jersey and California primaries find the real estate mogul trailing the former Secretary of State by 15-points, 49 percent to 34 percent, in the Garden State.
Mitt Romney lost New Jersey by close to 18-points in 2012.
“In both cases, sizable numbers of each candidates’ backers are motivated mainly by voting against their opponent: Forty-two percent of those for Trump are mainly out to vote against Clinton; forty-one percent of Clinton backers are looking to vote against Trump,” CBS News reports. “And in many instances Clinton and Trump could motivate turnout as well. Thirty-eight percent of California general election voters feel Trump as the Republican nominee will make them more likely to turn out, and 26 percent say Clinton as the Democratic nominee will make them more certain to vote come November.”
Clinton had led eight of the last eleven national polls since May 1st. Clinton beats Trump in New Jersey by over 9-point on average; a recent Monmouth Poll put the margin at only 4-points but with a large number of undecideds.
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