John Froonjian

John Froonjian, the executive director of the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University, said the poll finds Murphy gets high marks for his handling of the COVID pandemic.

"We see a very strong resistance politically to the vaccine, where an actual majority of Republicans said they are probably or definitely not going to get the vaccine," said John Froonjian, director of the Hughes Center at Stockton.

Most New Jersey residents would pay higher taxes or fees to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a Stockton University poll released Monday.