"Sherrill, a four-term Democratic congresswoman who was first elected when she flipped a conservative U.S. House district in the anti- Donald Trump wave of 2018, said she had campaigned all year to "say no" to the notion that Trump was leaving his opponents deflated and powerless. She went on to defeat her Republican rival, the former state legislator and three-time gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli, by fourteen points-and watched Democrats win by similarly large margins in Virginia, California, and New York."
"The idea behind her campaign, she continued, had been "to finally galvanize what I think of as Democrats, meaning the working-class suburbanites, working people in the cities, in a powerful way so we can actually fight back. And then, not even a week later, to see the Senate fuck that all up?""
"Well, I'm really upset, so my take on it was, 'What the actual fuck?'"
Mikie Sherrill, governor-elect of New Jersey and former four-term congresswoman, expressed anger after eight Democratic senators voted with Republicans to end the government shutdown. She campaigned to mobilize working-class suburbanites and urban working people, tied her opponent to Trump, and defeated Jack Ciattarelli by fourteen points. Sherrill is a fifty-three-year-old former Navy helicopter pilot, litigator, and prosecutor who has sometimes questioned party leadership and repeatedly voted against Nancy Pelosi. Critics labeled parts of her campaign "milquetoast," but she emphasized energetic outreach to reclaim momentum and push back against Republican influence.
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