The New Hampshire Primary is still a few months away, but Chris Christie (aka Fatty McThunderbiscuits) is having trouble breaking loose from the “not Trump” pack of alternatives, Save Jerseyans.
Wednesday’s new CNN poll paints a bleak picture of his Granite State prospects, a place where Christie is investing most of his time because he likely needs to finish second there or face the possibility of a second consecutive early departure from a presidential nominating contest (Christie finished 6th in New Hampshire back in 2016 with only 7.38% of the vote).
The “good” news? He’s only a couple of points removed from second place.
The bad news: according to the CNN/UNH survey (the first released with September data), Christie is in 4th place (11%) behind Trump (39%), Ramaswamy (13%), and Nikki Haley (12%). Ron DeSantis continues to struggle badly and is essentially tied with Christie at 10%.
But the topline number is not the worst news for Christie.
His favorability rating is waaaaaay under water (17%-67%), and a near-supermajority of New Hampshire primary voters (60%) report that there isn’t a scenario in which they’d support Christie. Mike Pence (42%) and Trump (30%) don’t come close to the same level of negative not “under any circumstances” sentiment among the available voter pool.
Only 19%, by the way, say the same thing about Nikki Haley who arguably has some momentum as of late in the race to finish directly behind former President Trump…
Click here to view the full survey results.
