Club for Growth Poll Finds Stefanowski With Wide Lead Over Klarides. Advantage Grows With Spotlight on Eversource.

Bob Stefanowski enjoys a wide lead over former state Representative Themis Klarides in the 2022 Republican contest for governor, according to a survey of 300 likely Republican primary voters. The Club for Growth, a conservative campaign fundraising organization, commissioned the poll.

The survey, conducted early in June, found Stefanowski leading Klarides 47-18 in a two candidate contest. The poll found 57% of those asked less likely to support Klarides when told her husband is a top-ranking executive at Eversource, the state’s largest utility. Klarides’s intermittent criticisms of Donald Trump also make primary voters less likely to support her.

Questions about Eversource and Trump pushed Stefanowski to a 48 point advantage over Klarides.

Stefanowski was the 2018 Republican nominee for governor. Klarides served in the state House of Representatives for 22 years, ending her tenure there as the Republican leader.

Fabrizio, Lee & Associates conducted the poll. Read it here.