GOP's Ciattarelli Digs In Despite Murphy's 65,000-Vote N.J. Lead

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(Bloomberg) -- Three days after New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy won re-election, Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli has yet to concede. The Associated Press called the tight race for the Democratic incumbent on Wednesday night. Murphy now leads by 65,242 votes.

“No one should be declaring victory or conceding the election until every legal vote is counted,” Ciattarelli said in a video message posted on Twitter on Thursday.

Here’s a look at where things stand:

Tight race:

The margin is 2.6 percentage points -- 50.9% for Murphy and 48.3% for Ciattarelli, according to the AP.

Murphy’s lead has continued to widen since AP declared him the winner.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jersey-gop-candidate-governor-still-182340801.html?a20_comeback_from_auth=1

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1. This is the kind of optics crap republicans *never* pay a price for

They're positioning this race (the one they lost) as close and the Virginia race as huge (the one they won) when they were roughly the same margins. Actually I think our margin was slightly larger.

But the media always refers to the nj race as "tight" or "close" or our victory as "narrow".

They rarely use those terms for the Virginia race.


And the media never calls republicans out for their inconsistency. Nor will they ever call ciattarelli a sore loser, as they never called Donnie a sore loser. But they just loved the whole "sore/loserman" thing in 2000 when Al gore refused to concede... while he was ahead in the popular vote and the electoral college and not all the votes in Florida has been counted.....

[Walleye]

2. Never heard of "legal votes" before this year.guess they had success with "illegal immigrants"

[PortTack]

3. Ignore him! He's just a sore loser.