More than two-thirds of New Jersey voters are unhappy with the current state of the economy and 39% believe their family’s financial situation is worse than it was last year, according to a poll released Friday by the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University.
Most New Jersey voters, 58% of those polled, feel the country is headed in the wrong direction, while a third think it is on the right track. The results are similar to those of a poll conducted last year, but the partisan sentiment has flipped.
Under former President Joe Biden, the Republican disapproval drove the findings, with 91% saying the country was going down the wrong path. With President Donald Trump at the helm this year, 89% of Democrats say the country is off course.
About 48% of voters said th