Trump’s influence looms large in New Jersey governor primary races

Today is the main day in New Jersey, only one of two countries in the country, along with Virginia, elections for the ruler this year.

In the spotlight in the races of the nominations of the ruling Republicans and Democrats, he is the most powerful person in the country and polarizing: President Donald Trump.

In the elementary confrontation of the Republican Party, which was over the most famous battle for Trump’s support, singular candidate Jack Seatarley fell to the president’s support two weeks ago.

“I ask you to go out and vote in favor of a real hero for your mandate: Jack Seatarley. He was a friend of mine, and it was a real success story,” Trump said a week ago.

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Ciattarelli Fox News Digital told Trump’s leaders of the Trump club Golf Philadelphia that the president’s support was a “really big deal” and “the president is doing a very good job in New Jersey”.

CItarelli, a former state deputy, offers his third presentation to the ruler. Unfortunately ran to the Republican Party nomination in 2017. Four years later, in 2021, CItarelli was excessive as a Republican candidate and close to the overthrow of the current democracy, the governor of the state, Phil Murphy, lost only three points.

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In the competition for Murphy’s backwardness, which carries the limited extent, investigative studies indicate that Seatarley is the candidate in the Republic of Five People with two other prominent prominent candidates: the former businessman and the famous conservative radio host Bill Spadia and Senator John Pramenik, a lawyer who served for the state’s government leader.

Ciattarelli and Spadea spent months circulating the fire around any of them was a greater Trump’s supporter.

“It was definitely disappointing,” Spadi said of Trump’s support for Nayatarley. “I mean, we did not put any bones on this. We fully wanted to support the president. Unfortunately, the president supported a survey and not a plan.”

SPADEA highlighted in a Fox News last week that “I was a supporter of President Trump since he got on the elevator,” referring to Trump’s announcement of his first presidential campaign in 2015.

“There is no doubt that I am the logical conservative. I am the actual Republican in this preliminary election.”

Spadea asked from Trump’s Ciattarelli, on the pretext that his rival “Trump has had the best part of the past eight years … We thought this support was better to offer with me.”

After winning the Republican Party’s nomination four years ago, Ciattarelli said when asked whether he was looking for the president’s support at the time, “There is only one support I seek, and this is the support of the voters in New Jersey. This is the only important.”

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Soon forward until 2025, Seataraille said: “People really appreciate (Trump) for New Jersey. He puts a temporary grip on wind farms off Jersey Beach. He strikes Democrats in New York because of the pricing of crowding. He supports a quarter of salt salt. [state and local tax] Discount on our federal tax declarations. These are great deals in New Jersey, and for this reason he got a lot of great support here. I am honored to have his support. “

While Trump’s support lost, Spadi said that there was a silver lining.

“Our supporters are galvanized. The matter, in fact, on Tuesday and Wednesday, after Trump Jack, had an increase, the two best days we have in collecting low dollar donations.” “So it has had an opposite effect in fact-increasing low dollars, increasing our volunteers. We are now knocking more than 3000 doors per week, and we get an incredible response from the popular base.”

“Almost Trump’s supporter talked to his face on Earth believes Donald Trump made a big mistake,” Spadea said.

Republican governor candidate Bill Spadi speaks with voters at the Somalefel Street Exhibition, New Jersey, on June 1, 2025. (Bill Spadia Campaign)

When asked about the reason for Trump’s support instead of Spadea, Ciattarelli said, “The president wants to win. He knows that I gave the best opportunity to win in November.”

“He knows that we will raise the necessary funds. We raised more money than the other five Republicans combined.”

Ciattarelli is an accredited public accountant who started a medical publishing company before entering politics. He was allowed to collect donations to him to control the wars of the initial advertisements of the Republican Party.

But Spadea, referring to his media career, said that he would be the most vulnerable Republican candidate in November in New Jersey, full of blue.

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“The largest fans in the state were built: a third democracy, a third independent, a third Republic. So my resumption is not only that conservative rule in the Republican Party,” he said.

The Democratic Conservative Association, which indicates the rush by the best candidates for Trump’s long -term, described the Republican confrontation for the year 2025 as a “battle of Maga” and that there is “extremism in the preparatory elections of the Republican Party.”

Democrats have their initial battle, as it faces six main competitors for nomination.

They are actors. Mickey Sherrill and Josh Gotimer, Narka mayor Ras Barka, the mayor of Jersey City Steve Voloub, head of the New Jersey Education Association Sean Spiller and former Senate Steve Sweeini.

The introductory elections are one of the first opportunities for the polls for Democrats who aim to aim to apostasy after the setbacks of the November elections, when the Republicans won the White House, the majority in the Senate and defended their fragile control in the House of Representatives.

Primary critics see on Tuesday as “Belweether” of how the party pushed back against Trump’s sweeping and controversial moves since its return to the White House in January.

Like Murphy, who aims to succeed, Democratic candidates have greatly criticized some Trump campaign against illegal immigration and discounts in the federal workforce by the recently established Ministry of Government.

The governor of New Jersey Murphy Murphy State and prevented from running for his re -election this year. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images/File)

But the candidates were carefully followed on a high line between construction on the legacy of Murphy as a ruler, with the call to change in the current situation in Capitol the state in Trenton.

The Republican Referees Association, which aims at Murphy and his party, argued that “the democratic rule in Trenton was a disaster, which led to high costs, failed schools, and New Jersey families who get a short end of the stick.”

While New Jersey has long bowed towards the Democrats, the Republicans have achieved success in the ruling elections.

“It is not a blue country when it comes to the ruling racing. Republicans won six out of the last 11 years. This is better than 50 %,” said Sitarili.

Trump, who spent for years on the summer weekends at his golf club in Pedmiestter, has gathered a large group in a campaign last year in Weldwood. He improved 16 points in the state in the 2020 elections to a six -point deficit last November.

President Donald Trump speaks at the time while the campaign gathered in Wildows, New Jersey, on May 11, 2024. (Hana Pierre/Bloomberg via Getti Emiez)

“He really looks forward to Trump’s active participation … I think New Jersey is keen to get him to the campaign’s path with me and help achieve a victory for us in November.”

Meanwhile, Garden’s state often became national addresses this year. The Newark Liberty International Airport has witnessed a multiple interruption of the FAA system this spring, causing the travel delay.

Meanwhile, the transmission kick in New Jersey created more chaos in traveling when passenger trains sat shortly.

The protests by prominent Democratic politicians in a facility to enforce immigration and customs in Newark also put the state in the spotlight. Among the arrest was one of the candidates: Newark Baraka.

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The early vote for a person ran from June 3 to Sunday. The polling mark should be placed on the basis of voting by the election day and the provincial election council received it in or before the sixth day after the end of the polls.

The polls are open for personal voting on the primary day at 6 am and closed at 8 pm

Remy News contributed to Fox News to this report.