When we are five weeks to New Jersey in New Jersey, New Jersey, and voters are already paying to post voting, all six candidates have the way to ensure a democratic nomination.
Only one of the two US governor races takes place this year, the race has become a raucous barometer about how voters from Jersey react to the second term of office of President Donald Trump.
The last polls slightly put the American representative Miki Sherrill Before other candidates, but political experts in New Jersey say that an extremely competitive race is still forthright and can have razor margins. All candidates have experience in the chosen position of the mayor, senator of state or member of the Congress – and the voter database.
“He is undecided in the first place; Miki Sherrill is in the distant second second, and everyone else is around her in third place”, recently Patrick Murray, a surveyer from New Jersey he said on PBS.
Experts predict that the main winner can move to victory with only 20% of votes – or 250,000 voting cards.
“Many election cycles have ever taught us never to speak,” said Ashley Koning, director of Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling. “… it really comes down to who really turns out and how many.”
Here is a look at the paths of every candidate for victory.
The mayor of Newark Barak Ras is a progressive, which would be the first black state governor. He particularly accepted the colorful voters of the working class, who claims that the Democratic Party took for granted. Barak can energize voters who do not always appear in voting, but have a record of voting in elections they care about, although some say it’s gambling.
Barak claims that democrats must stop trying to be “Republican Lite”.
Has support for progressive organizations such as Party of working families and various trade unions.
The barraka surprised some politicians by Being the second favorite In some voices of the party committee.
“We have seen too long that many Democratic Party strategies were focusing only on the suburbs and focusing only on, to be honest, mainly white voters,” said Antoinette Miles, director of the family party family at New Jersey. “… if this electorate in the original distorts a more multi -one, more black and Latin, I think it is a path to victory.”
The mayor of Jersey City, Steven Fulop, was conducting an anti-establishment campaign. Some question the validity From this brand, taking into account his earlier involvement in the establishment of Hudson, but he did not refrain from public criticizing a lot of political actors during his campaign.
Fulop has a unique strategy. He created a coalition that could be described as its own anti-estabiseement type. He recruited the candidates for Ballot throughout the state, who will apply for the offices and state offices with a common slogan. He argued that this strategy gave more people to escape, but conducting candidates against democratic souvenirs also made him enemies.
“This can be the first test in which we really see if someone can collect something that could reliably question the power of the poviat organization,” said Micah Rasmussen, director of the Rebovich for New Jersey Politics Institute.
Fulop also announced the candidate of the Governor of the lieutenant and said that he would again turn to the Prosecutor General Matt Platin.
Fulop checks some of the boxes that other candidates in the race advertised within their BIOS: his parents are immigrants and he is a veteran.
Fulop would also be the first Jewish governor of the state.
Gottheimer goals for an older and more conservative crowd
US representative Josh Gottheimer focused on more moderate and conservative democrats through repeated “lower taxes, lower costs”. Gottheimer was the only democrat in New Jersey in Congress, who voted for the Act on Laken Riley-who allows you to detain undocumented persons on the basis of arrests related to theft-theft-ending to the right of other candidates in the area of ​​immigration.
Thanks to tactical tactics, like a nationwide trip to the dining room, it is the goal of older voters because they are more moderate. He also tried to reach employees with blue collars.
Gottheimer did not get as much establishment support as expected, but he assured the sought-after support from the Democrats of the Bergen-Hrabism Ferry has the second largest number of registered democrats in this state.
Gottheimer, who would also be the first Jewish governor of state, stands out as a democratic candidate who most involves the Orthodox Jewish community, said David Rosenberg, executive director of New Jersey Jewish Business Alliance.
“Look at Jewish documents, you see Josh,” he said.
American representative Miki Sherrill can be described as generally more progressive than Gottheimer and Sweeney, but less progressive than a barraka and full. She is a candidate with the greatest support from the facilities of the Democratic Party throughout the state.
With the line of the Function, released from New Jersey, it is not clear how vital these recommendations are. But even with their reduced authorities, regional committees bring a structured support system of the party’s involved voters.
Sherrill said she was successful in building a wide coalition, although taking into account her origin as a veteran and mother, she said she had a special resonance with women and suburban veterans.
“It is still a feeling from women who want to see a woman chosen for office, and the fact that she is a veteran gives her this recognition with some men who have great respect for their military origin,” said Patricia Campos-Medina, a progressive activist at New Jersey, who advises Sherrilla in engaging with Latin voters.
Sean Spiller is the president of the New Jersey Education Association, the largest union of teachers in a state of about 200,000 members. His campaign is unique because of how much he is based Multi -million Super Pac called Working New Jersey largely financed from trade union contributions from public school teachers.
But despite the support of the group, Spiller failed to get enough individual donations to qualify for public matching funds and the stage of debate. He was Only a candidate in a democratic field that has not achieved a comparative test.
“I think that this will send a very strong signal to every voter who points out that in a sense has disappeared in the background,” said Rasmussen. “… voters are wondering where it is or what happened.”
Spiller, an immigrant from Jamaica, who served one semester as the mayor of Montclair, would also be the first black Garden Governor.
Critics say that the apply of teachers’ Union contributions to support his campaign is not the best look, but his supporters say that he can support public education and that the relationship has a relationship Candidates are taken up before.
The question is whether the barrier to work in New Jersey resonated with a sufficient number of voters, and whether a sufficient number of teachers appears for him. Spiller also has some possibilities of gathering voters who have developed claims against other candidates in the field, such as Sweeney, which has a bumpy past with Njea.
Sweeney is the only candidate from South Jersey – and has Establishment support show – Giving him a unique geographical base since voting in northern NJ, he is divided into five ways.
“I would say that the main voters from southern Jersey are one of the most organized main democrats in the state,” said Rasmussen.
Sweeney, iron union leaderHe put himself as a more moderate candidate who goes against the status of New Jersey as your sanctuary. He took messages for employees, seniors and disabled parents. Sweeney has He attributed his interest in a public office Until the birth of his daughter Lauren, currently 32, which has Down syndrome.
Sweeney was the longest serving president of the State Senate, a powerful position in which he deeply got acquainted with New Jersey’s policy. While Sweeney’s knowledge about the state distinguishes him, some consider him a nostalgia campaign representing the venerable shirt policy while there is a hunger for something fresh. Sweeney was removed from a long place in 2021 by Ed Durr, a republican truck driver who was little known at the time.
