Poll: GOP voters split on Jeb

A new poll released shows Republicans are divided nearly in half on the prospect of a Jeb Bush presidential candidacy in 2016.

{mosads}Forty-nine percent of GOP primary voters would back Bush, according to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey. Another 42 percent could not imagine supporting the former GOP governor of Florida.

Republican voters are skeptical of Jeb, given that his brother, George W. Bush, and father, George H.W. Bush, were both presidents.

The poll’s results follow Bush’s speech on Saturday at the Iowa Ag Summit in Des Moines. Bush declared his “love” of the state during his visit.

The survey additionally found potential GOP voters were less enthusiastic about some of their other options.

Only 32 percent would back N.J. Gov. Chris Christie (R), it said, versus 57 percent who would not.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) received 20 percent of voter support, with another 51 percent rejecting his possible bid.

Seventy-four percent of voters would also pass on Donald Trump. Only 23 percent of respondents would back the New York business mogul.

The Iowa Ag Summit hosted many other likely GOP presidential hopefuls besides Bush. Among those attending were Christie, Trump, Gov. Scott Walker (Wis.), Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Ted Cruz (Texas), former Sen. Rick Santorum (Penn.) and former Govs. Mike Huckabee (Ark.) and George Pataki (N.Y.)