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NNadir

(36,020 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 05:34 PM Wednesday

It's Mikie. It will be a pleasure to vote for her against Shitarelli, Trumper.

She won 34% of the vote in a six person race and carried all but six counties, with Steven Fulop being the only other candidate to carry more than one (two).

Congresswoman wins Democratic primary in New Jersey governor’s race

...Anjali Mehrotra, a national board member of the National Organization for Women, said she’s “an original Team Mikie.”

“I’ve been waiting for her to run for governor for two years now,” Mehrotra said. “I would like to see more women elected in office, and not just because I feel like we need representation, but actual research shows that women govern differently because they’re more empathetic, they’re more collaborative, and frankly, they’re more about the issues that I care about. Do I see a man fighting for universal child care? Probably not.”

Sherrill’s rivals had tried to disrupt her momentum by disparaging her as the establishment candidate during a time when many Democrats are disillusioned by their party and looking for seismic change.

But the “machine politician” insult failed to stick, likely because she has been in politics for less time than any of her campaign rivals aside from Sean Spiller.

Still, she and rival Steve Fulop, Jersey City’s mayor, led the race in spending, with both shelling out almost $9 million in what has become New Jersey’s most expensive primary in state history. Sherrill also got a nearly $4 million boost in spending by independent expenditure groups.

Whoever replaces Murphy will be tested in unprecedented ways, as the Trump administration increasingly attacks states’ sovereignty by cracking down on state and local officials who don’t embrace or at least allow its immigration enforcement, cost cuts, and other policies that have led to nationwide upheaval.


I'm happier than a pig in shit.
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