#mikie-sherrill

#mikie-sherrill

New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill secured a decisive victory in Tuesday's election to become the next governor of the Garden State in a race some polls predicted would be tighter. Sherrill beat the President Trump-endorsed Republican candidate, Jack Ciatterelli, by about 13% of the vote marking the first time since the 1960s that New Jersey voters elected a governor from the same party three terms in a row.

Barack Obama headlined a rally Saturday in Virginia to try to secure a victory for the state's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, who leads in polls days before the election. Obama moved between criticizing Donald Trump and Republican policy and rhetoric with a bit of humor while also explaining how Abigail Spanberger could help counter what Democrats see as the country's downward trajectory.

Mikie Sherrill is not prone to hyperbole. The Democratic nominee for governor of New Jersey is measured and mainstream-even "milquetoast," in the words of one progressive activist. But when I asked Sherrill what message a victory for her this November would send nationally, she made a rather bold declaration. "As New Jersey goes, so goes the nation," she told me.