Chris Christie and Jeb Bush Have Major Iowa Problems

They may be popular with swing voters, but Republicans in this crucial caucus state are not sold: Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Poll.
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Chris Christie and Jeb Bush are both among the Republican Party's most popular governors to ever lead big states, New Jersey and Florida. It's a little state, though, that could trip up their presidential ambitions. Simply put: Iowa Republican caucusgoers don't like either of them very much.

“I see a failure in both of those guys to stand with conservative thinkers,” Dave Peters, a Baptist pastor from Waterloo, Iowa, said in describing his opposition to Bush and Christie.