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Newsweek
30-06-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
Jack Ciattarelli's Chances of Beating Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey: Polls
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Jack Ciattarelli is unlikely to beat Representative Mikie Sherrill in the race to become the next governor of New Jersey, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted for the American Principles Project (APP) by Cygnal, showed Sherrill with a 7 percentage point lead against her Republican rival some five months before Election Day. The Context New Jersey is one of two states holding gubernatorial elections this year, the other being Virginia. Incumbent Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, has served two terms and cannot run for reelection. On June 10, Ciattarelli, a Republican former state assemblyman, and Sherrill, a Democratic U.S. congresswoman, emerged as their parties' nominees following primary elections. A composite image of Representative Mikie Sherrill at a news conference in Washington, D.C., on February 13, 2024, and former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, on February 4. A composite image of Representative Mikie Sherrill at a news conference in Washington, D.C., on February 13, 2024, and former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, on February 4. AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, Mike Catalini, file While New Jersey has voted for a Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1992, the GOP has recently enjoyed increasing success, with Trump growing his vote share by 10 points in 2024. This was the best showing by a GOP presidential nominee in two decades. What To Know The poll of 400 likely general election voters showed that 50 percent of voters would vote for Sherrill, while 43 percent would vote for Ciattarelli. The survey, conducted between June 19 and 20, had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.36 percentage points. Meanwhile, a SurveyUSA poll of 785 adults previously found that 51 percent of likely voters said they would support Sherrill in the November general election, compared to 38 percent who said they would back Ciattarelli. The poll was conducted between May 28 and May 30. An internal poll from the Ciattarelli campaign, conducted by National Research and reported by the New Jersey Globe, showed Sherrill with a narrow lead—45 percent of the vote to Ciattarelli's 42 percent. What People Are Saying The Ciattarelli campaign told Newsweek earlier this month: "Make no mistake that this is a 'CHANGE' election and Ciattarelli is the CHANGE candidate. A majority of New Jersey voters (54 percent) believe that the state is heading in the wrong direction, while only 33 percent believe things in New Jersey are going in the right direction. Notably, Ciattarelli leads Sherrill by a whopping 72 percent to 14 percent margin among those wrong-track voters, and an even stronger 87 percent to 6 percent among voters who want a governor who will 'shake up Trenton.'" Micah Rasmussen, the director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University, previously told Newsweek: "It is certainly possible that New Jersey could elect a Republican governor in November. Governor Murphy was the first Democrat to be reelected in more than 40 years, and in that same span, three Republican governors were elected and reelected." What Happens Next The gubernatorial election in New Jersey is scheduled to take place on November 4.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Some Assembly primaries won't see a winner until next week
Though vote tallies were fast this year, a handful of races will remain too close to call until provisional ballots are counted next week. (Ed Murray for New Jersey Monitor) A handful of New Jersey's Assembly primaries remained too close to call early Friday afternoon, and counts for some races were poised to stretch until provisional ballots are tallied next week. Most of the state's races were decided on or shortly after Election Night due to a 2022 law that allowed election officials to prepare mail ballots for counting ahead of Election Day. But candidates in a handful of contests were separated by fewer than 200 votes, leaving final tallies up to provisional ballots that won't be counted until next week. 'The legislature and the Governor saw a problem, and they saw a need to fix it, and apparently they have fixed it because now we seem to be a fast-counting state, or at least we were this time,' said Micah Rasmussen, director of Rider University's Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics. In the 31st District, where voters gave Hudson County Commissioner Jerry Walker the Democratic nomination, Assemblyman William Sampson's (D-Hudson) lead over Assemblywoman Barbara McCann Stamato (D-Hudson) narrowed somewhat after county election officials updated vote tallies Thursday. Sampson leads his onetime running mate, who sought reelection under gubernatorial hopeful and Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop's slogan, by 194 votes, down from 308 on Wednesday. Hudson officials on Thursday reported there were 101 vote-by-mail ballots and 698 provisional ballots yet uncounted. Those could be enough to bring McCann Stamato back to second place in the district's primary. They're unlikely to save her running mate, Jacqueline Weimmer, who lags Sampson by 403 votes. Election officials will continue receiving late-arriving mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day until 8 p.m. Monday, though those ballots are typically small in number. Provisional ballots can only be counted after the end of the mail-voting grace period. In some counties, officials aren't counting more ballots until next week. Not all outstanding ballots will have been cast in Democratic primaries, and some mail and some provisional ballots won't be counted because the voters who cast them were ineligible to vote, among other deficiencies. Voters whose mail ballots are rejected have until June 18 to cure them. The contest for a second seat in the 20th District remained tight Friday morning. There, independent Democrat Ed Rodriguez leads party-backed Union County Commissioner Sergio Granados by 105 votes with Assemblywoman Annette Quijano (D-Union) in a distant first place. There were 543 mail ballots and 707 provisional ballots left uncounted in the Union County-based district late Thursday. The race remains too close to call and will likely be decided by provisional ballots. The uncounted ballots won't be enough to bring Walter Wimbush, Rodriguez's running mate, into contention for the seat. Rodriguez is among the independent Democrats who performed well in races that featured opponents on competing slates backed by party organizations and Fulop. 'When you get a one-on-one, you can say, 'Well, the other guy stinks,'' Rasmussen said. 'But when you've got six candidates — as we did in the gubernatorial field and as we did in some of these Assembly races — it's not enough to say the other guy stinks. You've got to say, 'No, this is why I'm the best and I deserve your first or your second vote.'' Outstanding ballots in the 35th District appear to favor Assemblyman Al Abdelaziz (D-Passaic), who leads his party-backed running mate, Passaic County Commissioner Orlando Cruz, by 261 votes for second place. Nearly all votes are counted in the Bergen County portion of the district, where only 18 mail ballots and 44 provisional ballots remain untallied. Passaic has more outstanding votes: 1,195 between both categories, and Abdelaziz ran ahead of Cruz in the county. Newark Corporation Counsel Kenyatta Stewart, who ran on an independent ticket, leads the assemblyman by 1,301 votes — more than the number of ballots currently outstanding — and will go on to face Republicans Nelvin Mercado-Duran and Rawell Perez-Muñoz in November. The district has not had a Republican member in three decades. A second-place race between Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla and Assemblywoman Jessica Ramirez (D-Hudson) in the 32nd District remained tight. Bhalla leads the incumbent, who ran on Fulop's slate, by 194 votes with 717 mostly provisional ballots left uncounted as of Thursday afternoon. Former New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency chief of staff Katie Brennan leads Ramirez by 497 votes and is virtually certain to be one of the district's Democratic nominees. Brennan, whose accusations of sexual assault against a 2017 Murphy campaign staffer roiled Trenton, ran with Bhalla on an independent ticket. 'This was a district where voters were paying attention and had really good choices, and I think the result of picking Katie Brennan at the top of the field is really a remarkable outcome for a housing advocate and a planner and somebody who we know about, given her experience with the Murphy campaign in the early days of the Murphy administration,' Rasmussen said. The three remaining candidates, Jersey City Councilman Yousef Saleh, Crystal Fonseca, and Jennie Pu, are not in contention for either seat. Some other contests remain close. In the Democratic primary in the 2nd District, Fulop-aligned Bruce Weeks trails Joanne Famularo, who has party backing, by just 82 votes with 1,026 ballots uncounted. The district is held by Republican Assembly members Don Guardian and Claire Swift, who were unopposed in the GOP primary. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump's pick for New Jersey governor pledges support as he seeks to lock up the primary
Republican Jack Ciattarelli is leaning on his endorsement from President Donald Trump to win next month's GOP primary for governor in New Jersey, pledging support for the president and saying during a debate Tuesday that he would not challenge Trump's executive orders in court. "I'm going to continue to work with the president. We spoke about that last week when we spoke about making the country and New Jersey safe again. We do that by getting rid of sanctuary cities, by getting rid of our sanctuary state status," Ciattarelli said during an exchange on immigration policy. 'I told him my attorney general will not be suing the White House for executive orders. We're not going to waste taxpayer dollars,' Ciattarelli said, later adding that he would "follow [Trump]'s lead" on deportations and that criminals should be deported. "At the end of the day, if he's going to deport all 14, 15 or 16 million, I support the president," Ciattarelli said. "He was elected on the promise of making the country safe again." Ciattarelli went on to defend his support for giving drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants, saying, "If by chance there are people he is not going to deport, we have to know who they are." Ciattarelli touted Trump's endorsement multiple times throughout the debate, at which he faced off against former radio host Bill Spadea, a staunch Trump supporter, and state Sen. Jon Bramnick, a Trump critic. Two other GOP candidates on the ballot for the June 10 primary did not meet the fundraising threshold to qualify for the debate, which was hosted by On New Jersey, the New Jersey Globe, Rider University and Save Jersey. Ciattarelli, a former state assemblyman who narrowly lost in the general election against Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in 2021, has been leading the primary field in limited public polling and campaign spending. Ciattarelli's campaign also launched a TV ad Tuesday that highlighted Trump's endorsement. Spadea acknowledged at the debate that Trump opted to endorse Ciattarelli, but he suggested Trump was swayed by skewed polling. 'The president endorsed a poll — a poll that was conducted and paid for by Jack's campaign," Spadea said in his opening statement. "The president did not endorse a plan. The president did not endorse a set of principles.' The candidates were asked how, as Trump allies, they would navigate Republican-led cuts to federal programs that could negatively affect New Jersey residents. "Did not the recession back in 2011 impact our ability to do this and do that, but yet we met that challenge? And I believe we can meet this challenge," Ciattarelli said. "But the first job of any governor is to provide for health and safety. And that [means] taking care of our most vulnerable people, whether it's people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, people on Medicaid, we will find a way." Spadea noted he has disagreed with Trump on "multiple occasions." "Disagreement is OK. You have to protect this state," Spadea said. Bramnick pledged "to fight for New Jersey, even if it means disagreeing with Washington Republicans. New Jersey's got to come first; it's simple as that." Ciattarelli pitched himself as the candidate most likely to win in November. He lost to Murphy by 3 points four years ago, and this year's race is expected to be competitive. A crowded field of Democrats are competing in next month's primary to replace Murphy, who cannot run for re-election because of term limits. This article was originally published on
NBC News
21-05-2025
- Politics
- NBC News
Trump's pick for New Jersey governor pledges support as he seeks to lock up the primary
Republican Jack Ciattarelli is leaning on his endorsement from President Donald Trump to win next month's GOP primary for governor in New Jersey, pledging support for the president and saying during a debate Tuesday that he would not challenge Trump's executive orders in court. "I'm going to continue to work with the president. We spoke about that last week when we spoke about making the country and New Jersey safe again. We do that by getting rid of sanctuary cities, by getting rid of our sanctuary state status," Ciattarelli said during an exchange on immigration policy. 'I told him my attorney general will not be suing the White House for executive orders. We're not going to waste taxpayer dollars,' Ciattarelli said, later adding that he is going to "follow [Trump]'s lead" on deportations and that criminals should be deported. "At the end of the day, if he's going to deport all 14, 15 or 16 million, I support the president," Ciattarelli said. "He was elected on the promise of making the country safe again." Ciattarelli went on to defend his support for giving drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants, saying, "If by chance there are people he is not going to deport, we have to know who they are." Ciattarelli touted Trump's endorsement multiple times throughout the debate, where he faced off against former radio host Bill Spadea, a staunch Trump supporter, and state Sen. Jon Bramnick, a Trump critic. Two other GOP candidates are on the ballot for the June 10 primary, though they did not meet the fundraising threshold to qualify for the debate, which was hosted by On New Jersey, the New Jersey Globe, Rider University, and Save Jersey. A former state assemblyman who narrowly lost in the general election against Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in 2021, Ciattarelli has been leading the primary field in limited public polling and campaign spending. Ciattarelli's campaign also launched a new TV ad on Tuesday that highlighted Trump's endorsement. Spadea acknowledged during the debate that Trump opted to endorse Ciattarelli, but he suggested the president was swayed by skewed polling. 'The president endorsed a poll — a poll that was conducted and paid for by Jack's campaign," Spadea said in his opening statement. "The president did not endorse a plan. The president did not endorse a set of principles.' The candidates were asked during the debate how, as Trump allies, they would navigate Republican-led cuts to federal programs that could negatively impact New Jersey residents. "Did not the recession back in 2011 impact our ability to do this and do that, but yet we met that challenge? And I believe we can meet this challenge," Ciattarelli said. "But the first job of any governor is to provide for health and safety. And that believes taking care of our most vulnerable people, whether it's people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, people on Medicaid, we will find a way." Spadea noted he has disagreed with Trump on "multiple occasions." "Disagreement is okay. You have to protect this state," Spadea said. Bramnick pledged "to fight for New Jersey, even if it means disagreeing with Washington Republicans. New Jersey's got to come first, it's simple as that." Ciattarelli ultimate pitched himself as the candidate most likely to win in November. He lost to Murphy by 3 points four years ago, and this year's gubernatorial race is expected to be competitive. A crowded field of Democrats are competing in next month's primary to replace Murphy, who cannot run for re-election due to term limits.
Forbes
14-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
How AI Reshapes Internships And Entry-Level Jobs
For students, internship experience is everything when it comes to their education and being ready for their careers. There's a lot of talk about AI taking jobs away from people, and before you say it's not happening, turns out it is. How widespread this becomes is still up for debate, but it's just a matter of how long it takes and what jobs are affected. To find out more, I wanted to talk to a good friend of mine. Dr. Eugene Kutcher III (I call him Gene) is the Dean of the Norm Brodsky College of Business at Rider University. Gene and I have been working on a project that touches on AI, internships, and jobs, so I wanted to sit down with him, ask a few questions, and see where it went. Joe: How do you see internships being valuable within an organization? Gene: I'm going to start with how internships are valuable for us on the education side of things. At Rider, we call it engaged learning. We have a requirement that every student, by the time they graduate, they engage in a number of what we call 'high-impact practices.' Things that evidence has told us connect students more with their learning, so it's a more personal experience for them. In a business school, front and center, and priority is internships because one of our key mandates is to get them jobs when they graduate and have them be comfortable, competent, and have some confidence when they go into those positions. For the students, it means everything when it comes to their education and being ready for their careers. Joe: Now that AI is doing more entry-level jobs, have you seen a change in the number of internships that are available or a shift in attitude about internships? Gene: I'm going to take a step back a little bit. Even through COVID-19, when everything went remote for students and they were suddenly getting internships that were completely virtual, we realized that things are going to be a little bit different from this point forward. Some of those internships have never really come back. And yes, a lot of those internships were remote, but some of them disappeared altogether. We know some of these opportunities were there before and are not there now, and that goes for internships for our current students, as well as entry-level jobs for our graduates. We have to work a little harder and prepare them a little bit more. But also, we have to figure out what critical thinking looks like for those positions that are requiring human beings to work with AI. It's refocusing a little bit about what those skills are. Joe: This is where the AI Accelerator program comes into play, right? Let's get companies that are already connected with Rider in some way more deeply engaged. We can create this place at Rider where an organization can say, 'I've got this idea how we might be able to apply AI in a brand new way, but we have no idea what to do about it." Rider has great students and faculty, and we have alumni that run an entire organization around doing this stuff with enterprise customers. They can mentor the students on the project that company is looking to accomplish. This isn't the standard internship at all now. It's literally a big four consulting company—a proof of concept whereby we can create an experiential learning experience the way you described. Rider is not only helping figure out this technology journey, but also allowing students to experience it. Gene: And it cuts right to the chase. Students would have the problem ready to go. A lot of times with internships, so much of it is about a program, and a lot of firms might not have anything ready for interns to do yet. We see that a lot—and that's always been the case, even when I was an intern back in the day. It's that, 'OK, now we have interns, now what do we do with them?' Where in this case, it's almost like, 'We've identified something we need, and now let's bring the students on board.' Joe: That's where traditional internships break down, is people say, 'We need an intern because we've always had an intern.' And then they get there and they say, 'I don't know what we do with these people.' Gene: Right. And it matches what they need. It's a win-win. Students realize they need to pick up some skills with AI and they're thirsting for a story to tell about what they've learned on the job. Because one thing that we try to instill in them is that today it's AI, but no matter what, you could pick them up out of today and drop them in a hundred years from now, and adaptability is going to have just to be the one thing that they always are ready for; to quickly learn on the spot with whatever it is that's needed right now. The idea that you need to be ready for something, you need not be comfortable with it. You have to just quickly figure out what's needed in the moment and figure out what your resources are, who's on your team that you're working with, who you can get mentoring from, what the problem is that needs a solution, and you don't have any time to waste. You have to figure it out as you go. If you want to hear more, check out the article on my website, A Deep Dive into the Rider AI Assistant Accelerator Program. Also, check out my new book, The AI Ecosystems Revolution, available right now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookseller.
