Christie tanks in latest poll

Biden now garners 13 percent of Democratic voters to Clinton’s 55 and Sanders’ 17. Bernie Sanders or Vice President Joe Biden, Trump would finish behind each, said a Quinnipiac University poll out Thursday. “When asked to choose the most important issue in deciding who they will support for the GOP nomination, New Hampshire primary voters select national security (25 percent) and the economy (23 percent) as their top concerns, followed by taxes and government spending (20 percent)”, Monmouth reports.

The Quinnipiac survey of 1,644 registered voters was conducted July 23rd through 28th and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.

Though poll respondents said the most important quality in a candidate is that they be honest and trustworthy, frontrunners Trump and Clinton fare the worst by that measure, at least among general-election voters.

The results are backed up by a Reuters poll Wednesday that put Trump at 25 percent nationally and Bush at 12 percent.

The poll released by Quinnipiac University is hardly predictive, but stresses the exceptional popularity of the businessman among the 17 republican candidates.

Trump himself recently touted a poll by the group Public Policy Polling, noting that the poll found 34 percent of self-identified Hispanics had a favorable opinion of Trump-higher than Bush, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio.

The strong support for Trump comes despite widespread criticism of his controversial comments about Mexican immigrants and Sen.

Almost 6-in-10 say Trump is not honest and trustworthy (58%) and slightly more (63%) say he does not care about the needs and problems of people like you. He led the “no way” list, with 30 per cent of Republicans saying they definitely would not support him.

In 2012, Republican Mitt Romney won nearly 60 percent of the white vote, yet still lost to President Barack Obama by five million votes.

“So there’s a lot of different ways to read that”, Quinnipiac Assistant Director Tim Malloy says. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie follows at 15 percent, then Bush at 14 percent.

“I create jobs, I make great deals, I’m successful, but I’ve never debated before”, Donald Trump told the Herald. She’d defeat him by a margin of 48 percent to 36 percent, according to the poll.