Poll: 60 Percent Of New Jersey Voters View Trump Unfavorably
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP)-- A new Rutgers-Eagleton poll finds more than 60 percent of New Jersey voters view Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump unfavorably.
That's compared to 30 percent who say they have a favorable impression of him. New Jersey's primary is in June.
The poll was released Monday. It surveyed more than 700 registered voters.
Sixty-two percent have an unfavorable view of Trump, and roughly the same percentage say he makes them angry because of the kind of person he is or something he has done.
Thirty percent have a favorable view of him. Slightly more, 34 percent, say he makes them feel hopeful.
The poll was conducted in the first week of April and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Trump is railing against a deal reached by rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich to divvy up a series of upcoming contests to maximize their chances of halting Trump's march to the GOP nomination.
"It's collusion,'' Trump says of the deal, speaking at a rally in Rhode Island. Trump says that, ``if you collude in business or if you collude in the stock market, they put you in jail. But in politics, because it's a rigged system, because it's a corrupt enterprise, in politics you're allowed to collude.'' But Trump says he's actually OK with the decision because it demonstrates his rivals' weakness.
"It shows how weak they are. It shows how pathetic they are,'' he says.
Trump also mercilessly mocked Kasich in Rhode Island Monday, labeling his eating "disgusting'' and calling him "stubborn'' for remaining in the race.
Speaking in front of a rally crowd in Warwick, Trump says of Kasich that "I have never seen a human being eat in such a disgusting fashion.''
He continued: "This guy takes a pancake and he's shoving in his mouth.'' That's not presidential, Trump added.
The billionaire developer was referring to Kasich's morning conversation with reporters while eating. Trump said he'd been watching television with his youngest son Barron when Barron told his father, 'Daddy look.' I said, 'Don't watch! Little bites, little bites.'''
Trump called Kasich stubborn and compared him to a child for refusing to exit the race when he has no chance of winning without a contested convention. He also took aim at Ted Cruz, saying: "when he's under pressure he's like a basket case.''
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