“It’s a choice between standing for higher wages or going back to an economy that only worked for the wealthy and well connected.” Murphy said in a statement soon after the polls closed Tuesday. He has used the advantage to promote a range of first-term policy wins, including equal pay for women, a $15 minimum hourly wage, a new tax on income over $1 million and legalized marijuana. “If he’s got to look over his shoulder every time something happens to make sure the Trump wing of the party is still with him, that’s going to be a serious constraint for him,” said Micah Rasmussen, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University. Trump a “ charlatan.” In last month’s debate, when asked if he supported the former president, he said, “I supported Donald Trump’s policies.” Ciattarelli to strike national themes popular with Trump supporters instead of the good government and fiscal responsibility motifs that are more likely to resonate with mainstream Republicans and the state’s 2.4 million independent voters. Political analysts said the results could pressure Mr. Turnout was low, with fewer than 1 in 5 registered Republicans voting. Brian Levine, a former mayor of Franklin, N.J., finished fourth. Trump, who was in second place late Tuesday with nearly 26 percent of the Republican vote, four percentage points ahead of Mr. Ciattarelli qualified for public financing, making them eligible for the debate.īut it was Philip Rizzo, a pastor and real estate developer who also aligned himself with Mr. Ciattarelli in the only public debate of the primary. “We all know Trump won,” Hirsh Singh, an aerospace engineer and self-described Trump Republican who was running his fourth recent campaign for office, said as he faced off against Mr. Trump’s combative brand of politics among New Jersey’s party faithful, and the public discourse often touched on themes from the former president’s divisive term: the politics of mask wearing and the legitimacy of Mr. The Republican primary was seen as a test of the potency of Mr. We will reduce the size and cost of government.”
We will bring Main Street small businesses back to life. “We will make New Jersey more affordable by lowering property taxes,” he added. “The fact is, after four years of Murphy’s failed leadership, our state is struggling.” “Tonight New Jerseyans showed they are ready for a change, and we are just getting started,” Mr. His win comes four years after a second-place primary finish behind Kim Guadagno, the then-lieutenant governor. He had captured 49.6 percent of the vote in the four-man race for the Republican nomination by late Tuesday. Ciattarelli was declared the winner by The Associated Press. Less than two hours after polls closed, Mr. An Existential Crisis: The push to dethrone Iowa has inspired a rush of wistful memories and soul-searching among Democrats there.Obstacles to the Plan : Reshuffling the early-state order could run into logistical issues, especially in Georgia and New Hampshire.A New Chessboard : President Biden’s push to abandon Iowa for younger, racially diverse states is likely to reward candidates who connect with the party’s most loyal voters.Demoting Iowa : Democrats are moving to reorder the primaries by making South Carolina - instead of Iowa - the first nominating state, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire, Georgia and then Michigan.The Democrats’ Primary Calendar Upending decades of political tradition, members of the Democratic National Committee have voted to approve a sweeping overhaul of the party’s primary process. Virginia is the only other state with a race for governor. The election will come nearly a year into the first term of President Biden, a Democrat, making it an early bellwether of the electorate’s mood as the midterm congressional elections approach. Ciattarelli’s showing among his Republican base is considered likely to dictate the tenor and policy focus of the campaign.
But only 7 percent said he deserved an “A” grade on tax policies, a perennial, bread-and-butter voter issue in New Jersey, where residents pay some of the highest taxes in the country. Murphy’s handling of the pandemic earned high marks from 31 percent of residents, according to the poll. “He’s in a solid position that any politician would envy,” said Ashley Koning, director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling. Murphy’s favorable ratings have slipped by about seven percentage points since the start of the second wave of the pandemic in October 2020, according to a new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll, but are still at a robust 47 percent.
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