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Yahoo
a day ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Who is ahead in the NJ governor race? Polls, candidates, updates
The Brief New Jersey voters will select Democratic and Republican candidates for governor on June 10, with polls closing at 8 p.m. The race is closely watched for insights into voter responses to President Trump's second term. Leading Democratic candidates include U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, and U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer, with Sherrill slightly ahead in polls and fundraising. Former state assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, endorsed by President Trump, leads the Republican field, which also includes conservative talk radio host Bill Spadea and State Senator Jon Bramnick. New Jersey voters will have the chance to choose the Democrat and Republican candidates who will fight to succeed Phil Murphy as governor, a race that will be closely watched for signs of how voters respond to President Donald Trump's second term. With the New Jersey primary election on the horizon, here's a look at who's ahead for each party, who the candidates are and when we can expect results. Primary election day is June 10, three days away. Polls close at 8 p.m. What we know In the 2024 presidential election in New Jersey, the first results the AP reported came from Hudson County at 8:01 p.m. ET, one minute after polls closed. Vote tabulation ended for the night at 4:21 a.m. ET in Burlington County with about 95% of votes counted. Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey: According to a May survey, 28% of registered New Jersey Democratic voters said they would vote for U.S. Rep, Mikie Sherrill, as Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, and U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer each had 11% of Democratic responders' support. A month ahead of the primary, 24% of Dem voters said they were undecided. SurveyUSA: According to a poll conducted in May, voters showed slightly more favorable options for Sherrill compared to the rest of the field. Gottheimer was a close second. Fundraising numbers: Gottheimer has had a slight edge in fundraising, with about $9.1 million in contributions, followed by Sherrill and Fulop, each with about $8.9 million raised for their campaigns, according to the Associated Press. Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey: According to a May survey, 44% of registered New Jersey Republican voters said they would vote for former state Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, while 18% support talk radio host Bill Spadea. A month ahead of the primary, 23% of GOP voters said they were undecided. SurveyUSA: The poll conducted in May only asked voters about Ciattarelli, who "has favorability ratings of 40%-36% among the broader electorate and 63%-19% among Trump voters," accordin gto the New Jersey Globe. Trump endorsement: President Trump has endorsed Ciattarelli in May and campaigned for him in a virtual rally Dig deeper The race for governor features a crowded field of prominent current and former officeholders. U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop Teachers' union president Sean Spiller Former state Senate president Steve Sweeney Former state assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli Conservative talk radio host Bill Spadea State Senator Jon Bramnick Former Englewood Cliffs mayor Mario Kranjac Real estate developer Justin Barbera Tuesday is the primaries for governor, state General Assembly and the uncontested special primaries in state Senate District 35.
Vancouver Sun
28-05-2025
- Politics
- Vancouver Sun
Flawed, but ultimately fair, chief electoral officer says of B.C. election
VICTORIA — Elections B.C. chief Anton Boegman found himself on the defensive this week over a report on how his independent agency handled — and in some cases mishandled — the 2024 B.C. election. 'Elections are messy, to use a word, right?' the chief electoral officer told reporters on Tuesday. 'All election agencies hire people from communities to serve their fellow citizens in administering the election. And while all election officials are given training, at times they do make mistakes.' Many such mistakes are detailed in the report, the first of three that Boegman intends to release about last year's provincial election, the closest in B.C. history. A daily roundup of Opinion pieces from the Sun and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Informed Opinion will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. Eleven days after the election, officials identified one ballot box, containing 861 votes, that had not been counted. Officials in five electoral districts were found to have failed to report out-of-district votes, affecting results in 69 of the 93 electoral districts. In all, the chief electoral officer had to issue 41 orders, rectifying mistakes of one kind of other. Two separate orders dealt with errors in Juan de Fuca-Malahat, won by New Democrat Dana Lajeunesse. Another was needed to sort out several problems in side-by-side Surrey ridings, including one where the 22-vote NDP margin of victory is still being challenged in court. Other orders leave one guessing, as the riding is not identified nor is the number of ballots affected. Still, Boegman insists that in each case the problems were fixed and the overall outcome of the election was not affected. 'We were able to correct them, and we did correct them, and we were very transparent about that.' Most of the mistakes were attributed to human error among the more than 17,000 workers that Elections B.C. had to recruit and train in relatively short order. 'Our voting, counting and reporting processes are administered by short-term temporary election officials, who receive training and carry out their duties to the best of their ability,' said the report. 'Unfortunately election officials can and do make mistakes. The Election Act recognizes this by enabling the chief electoral officer to issue orders to correct mistakes.' 'Our goal is always error-free election administration,' added Boegman. 'As chief electoral officer, I take full accountability for the work of our officials. Elections B.C. has reviewed each incident or error and identified appropriate actions to improve future electoral event delivery.' The report also examines and discounts what it calls 'false narratives' about Election 2024: that non-citizens voted, that some people voted more than once, that there were abuses of balloting by phone and by mail, and that ballot boxes were not secured. Elections B.C. investigated a relatively small number of incidents alleging voting irregularities, some 30 in all. Twenty were determined to be 'unfounded.' Another 10, alleging a total of 15 potential contraventions, needed further review. Those included 'five false statements about election officials or voting administration tools, four instances of false election information, two of misrepresentation, and four unauthorized transmissions.' The outcomes of those reviews will be included in a report due later this year. For all that, Boegman told reporters, 'I stand by my assertion that the election was free, fair and secure.' Asked to give a letter grade to the Elections B.C. performance last year, Boegman ventured a 'B.' The lapses documented in the report could be viewed with less significance if B.C. were not known for elections where every vote counts. The B.C. Liberals lost their legislative majority by 189 votes cast in one seat in 2017, clearing the way for the NDP to take power. In 2024, the New Democrats secured their majority by one seat, Surrey-Guildford, and that seat by a mere 22 votes. The latter outcome is being challenged in court by Honveer Singh Randhawa, the B.C. Conservative candidate who ended up losing. He claims to have identified more than enough irregularities to challenge the 22-vote margin of victory and unseat NDP winner Garry Begg, B.C.'s solicitor general and minister of public safety. The case was up in B.C. Supreme Court this week on a preliminary matter regarding disclosure of voter identities, according to Bob Mackin of the Breaker online news service. Justice Barbara Norell expressed the hope that the case would get underway by mid-June. 'I am concerned,' she said in court. 'This is an election and we've got to get this matter heard as quickly as we can.' Elections B.C. is staffing the proceedings with a lawyer, acting as a friend of the court according to Boegman. Regarding a claim that one person had voted twice, Elections B.C. said the ballots were cast by two different people with similar names. As to the stakes for Begg and Randhawa, the Elections B.C. report has this to say: 'On hearing the application, the court may declare that the election in Surrey-Guildford is confirmed as valid, or that the election is invalid and the seat is vacant. 'For the latter ruling, a byelection would be held.' Make that a byelection to end all byelections, given that the NDP government's majority would be at stake as well. vpalmer@
Al Arabiya
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Bangladesh leader Yunus to meet key parties as pressure grows
Bangladesh's interim leader, who took over after a mass uprising last year, will meet powerful parties pressurizing his government later on Saturday, days after he reportedly threatened to quit. Muhammad Yunus, the 84-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner who leads the caretaker government as its chief advisor until elections are held, has called for rival political parties jostling for power to give him their full support. His press secretary Shafiqul Alam confirmed Yunus would meet leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), seen as the frontrunners in elections that could be held by December at the earliest, and the first since a student-led revolt forced then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee in August 2024. Yunus will also meet leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Muslim-majority nation's largest Islamist party. 'He is meeting BNP and Jamaat leaders this evening,' Alam told AFP. The South Asian nation of some 170 million people has been in political turmoil since Hasina fled, but this week has seen an escalation with rival parties protesting on the streets of the capital Dhaka with a string of competing demands. 'Our senior members will be there for the talks,' said BNP media official Shairul Kabir Khan. Jamaat-e-Islami's media spokesperson Ataur Rahman Sarkar also confirmed that they were invited. On Thursday, a political ally and sources in his office said Yunus had threatened to resign if Bangladesh's parties and factions did not back him. BNP supporters on Wednesday held large-scale protests against the interim government for the first time, demanding he fix an election date. Microfinance pioneer Yunus -- who has led the country after returning from exile at the behest of protesters -- says he has a duty to implement democratic reforms before elections. Jamaat-e-Islami loyalists have also protested against the government, demanding the abolition of a women's commission seeking equality.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Opinion - Democrats need to look forward, not back
I am a liberal columnist, commentator, podcaster and sometime political activist. I have been a Democrat all my life. But I am still stunned by how dumb Democrats can be. Like now. Fueled by tidbits leaked from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's blockbuster new book, 'Original Sin,' Democrats are rushing to distance themselves from Joe Biden, condemning him for waiting too long to decide not to run again, and blaming him for everything bad that's happening under President Trump — an exercise that seems especially cruel and unnecessary, given Biden's recent diagnosis with aggressive Stage Four prostate cancer. Based on more than 200 interviews with Biden insiders, elected Democrats and political consultants, Tapper and Thompson conclude that Biden was in far worse mental decline than most people realized; that White House staffers deliberately covered up the state of his decline; that Biden betrayed the party when he failed to announce, after Democrats' success in the 2022 midterms, that he would, as promised, not seek a second term; and that, after he finally did step aside, Democrats didn't have enough time to mount a successful campaign against Trump. 'The original sin of Election 2024 was Biden's decision to run for re-election,' Tapper and Thompson write, 'followed by aggressive efforts to hide his cognitive diminishment.' David Plouffe, senior adviser to the Kamala Harris campaign, who described her 107-day sprint to election day as a 'f—— nightmare,' blamed Biden for her loss: 'And it's all Biden…He totally f—– us.' In his review of 'Original Sin' for the Washington Post, Alex Shephard called the issue of Biden's health 'not just the most important factor in the 2024 election but the sole defining reason for Trump's victory.' Time out here. Anybody who tells you he knows the 'sole defining reason' for the success or failure of any election campaign doesn't know what he's talking about. And nothing else he says should be taken seriously. I realize that most of my fellow Democrats and commentators are in a hurry to scurry down that easy, beat-up-on-Biden rabbit hole, but count me out. It's a colossal waste of time, energy, resources and attention. I'm not saying Tapper and Thompson are wrong. I agree that Joe Biden should not have run for reelection. I agree he should have dropped out sooner. I agree that his delay in doing so was a factor — one of many, many factors — in the outcome of the 2024 campaign. But what's done is done. Every minute spent today talking about Joe Biden's mental awareness in 2022 is a minute not spent talking today about Trump's relentless efforts to gut our democratic institutions in 2025. Plus, let's get real, does anyone seriously believe that anybody, Republican or Democrat, cast their vote on Nov. 5, 2024, based on the state of Joe Biden's mental awareness? He wasn't in play at the time. Voters faced a clear choice between a former president and a sitting vice president; between a white male and a black female; between a convicted felon and a former prosecutor; between continuing with more of the same or shaking things up by giving Trump a second chance. If there was any singular, overriding issue in 2024, it was higher prices. Although the overall economy was strong, many Americans didn't feel good about it because all they saw were higher prices, especially at the grocery store. So 77 million of them voted, at least in part, because they believed a change in leadership would mean lower prices. Of course, it hasn't turned out that way. Just the opposite. Even the head of Walmart has warned that Trump's tariffs will mean higher prices. And it is a big mistake any time Democrats spend talking about Biden's mental capacity, instead of how the combination of Trump's tariffs and tax cuts for the wealthy are hurting working families today. This is not the first time we've had to deal with a president who showed signs of mental decline. According to most historians, Ronald Reagan was far more 'out of it' in the final year of his presidency than Joe Biden ever was. But note: Republicans didn't waste any time in self-flagellation over what might have been different if only they'd known more at the time. Instead, they focused on moving forward, building a strong party, and winning the next election. This is one more case where Democrats could learn a lot from Republicans. Bill Press is host of 'The Bill Press Pod.' He is the author of 'From the Left: A Life in the Crossfire.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
20-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Democrats need to look forward, not back
I am a liberal columnist, commentator, podcaster and sometime political activist. I have been a Democrat all my life. But I am still stunned by how dumb Democrats can be. Like now. Fueled by tidbits leaked from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's blockbuster new book, 'Original Sin,' Democrats are rushing to distance themselves from Joe Biden, condemning him for waiting too long to decide not to run again, and blaming him for everything bad that's happening under President Trump — an exercise that seems especially cruel and unnecessary, given Biden's recent diagnosis with aggressive Stage Four prostate cancer. Based on more than 200 interviews with Biden insiders, elected Democrats and political consultants, Tapper and Thompson conclude that Biden was in far worse mental decline than most people realized; that White House staffers deliberately covered up the state of his decline; that Biden betrayed the party when he failed to announce, after Democrats' success in the 2022 midterms, that he would, as promised, not seek a second term; and that, after he finally did step aside, Democrats didn't have enough time to mount a successful campaign against Trump. 'The original sin of Election 2024 was Biden's decision to run for re-election,' Tapper and Thompson write, 'followed by aggressive efforts to hide his cognitive diminishment.' David Plouffe, senior adviser to the Kamala Harris campaign, who described her 107-day sprint to election day as a 'f—— nightmare,' blamed Biden for her loss: 'And it's all Biden…He totally f—– us.' In his review of 'Original Sin' for the Washington Post, Alex Shephard called the issue of Biden's health 'not just the most important factor in the 2024 election but the sole defining reason for Trump's victory.' Time out here. Anybody who tells you he knows the 'sole defining reason' for the success or failure of any election campaign doesn't know what he's talking about. And nothing else he says should be taken seriously. I realize that most of my fellow Democrats and commentators are in a hurry to scurry down that easy, beat-up-on-Biden rabbit hole, but count me out. It's a colossal waste of time, energy, resources and attention. I'm not saying Tapper and Thompson are wrong. I agree that Joe Biden should not have run for reelection. I agree he should have dropped out sooner. I agree that his delay in doing so was a factor — one of many, many factors — in the outcome of the 2024 campaign. But what's done is done. Every minute spent today talking about Joe Biden's mental awareness in 2022 is a minute not spent talking today about Trump's relentless efforts to gut our democratic institutions in 2025. Plus, let's get real, does anyone seriously believe that anybody, Republican or Democrat, cast their vote on Nov. 5, 2024, based on the state of Joe Biden's mental awareness? He wasn't in play at the time. Voters faced a clear choice between a former president and a sitting vice president; between a white male and a black female; between a convicted felon and a former prosecutor; between continuing with more of the same or shaking things up by giving Trump a second chance. If there was any singular, overriding issue in 2024, it was higher prices. Although the overall economy was strong, many Americans didn't feel good about it because all they saw were higher prices, especially at the grocery store. So 77 million of them voted, at least in part, because they believed a change in leadership would mean lower prices. Of course, it hasn't turned out that way. Just the opposite. Even the head of Walmart has warned that Trump's tariffs will mean higher prices. And it is a big mistake any time Democrats spend talking about Biden's mental capacity, instead of how the combination of Trump's tariffs and tax cuts for the wealthy are hurting working families today. This is not the first time we've had to deal with a president who showed signs of mental decline. According to most historians, Ronald Reagan was far more 'out of it' in the final year of his presidency than Joe Biden ever was. But note: Republicans didn't waste any time in self-flagellation over what might have been different if only they'd known more at the time. Instead, they focused on moving forward, building a strong party, and winning the next election. This is one more case where Democrats could learn a lot from Republicans. Bill Press is host of 'The Bill Press Pod.' He is the author of 'From the Left: A Life in the Crossfire.'
