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There are now less than eight weeks until Election Day. In New York City, the polls say the mayoral race looks like a shoo-in for Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani to handily beat Andrew Cuomo in a four-man race. If you cross the Hudson River, however, and examine the New Jersey gubernatorial race, you’ll find a different story; there, polls say that Jack Ciattarelli and US representative Mikie Sherrill (D-11th) are locked in a neck-and-neck sprint for Trenton. Ciattarelli was in a similar position four years ago, when he nearly prevented Phil Murphy from capturing a second term. He appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to say that the polls are meaningless to him, except for the final vote tally on November 4th.
Ciattarelli told host Larry Mendte that despite the chatter, he’s only focused on reminding voters of his core message– especially if there’s a cup of coffee involved. “I’m certainly aware of them because people keep taking about then, but listen, the only poll we really don’t trust is the one that comes out of the universities. They don’t make the necessary investment to get an accurate one. We’ve got it as a dead head, my opponent has it as a dead heat, there’s one out there that’s got me up by a point. We just need to finish strong over the last 55 days and deliver a win, and that’s what I’m going to do... The poll I take is one every time I walk into a diner, and that doesn’t mean just the diners in Republican towns.”
Ciattarelli says Sherrill is misleading New Jersey residents by claiming that all of the Garden State’s woes are caused by one man. “There’s only one name she mentions- Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. And, as I keep saying to the people of New Jersey, what does the President have to do with our property taxes? What does he have to do with our electricity bills?... The President’s got nothing to do with that.”
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