With two months to go before New Jersey voters select a successor to lame-duck Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, two well-respected and nonpartisan surveys had some stunning results.
According to a poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., leads the Republican nominee, former New Jersey State Rep. Jack Ciattarelli, by 45% to 37% statewide. The survey of 806 registered voters was conducted July 17-23 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
With the Garden State regarded as reliably Democrat turf and with no nominee of the sitting president’s party winning the governorship in the year of his inauguration since 1981, the race for the New Jersey State House is surprisingly close.
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