Washington Examiner Contributing Writer Joe Concha said recent events in New Jersey’s gubernatorial election could tip the scales and give Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli the victory this November.
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) is facing several campaign setbacks amid reports on her, including failing to explain how she made $7 million in stock trades after getting elected to Congress and being unable to walk at her Naval Academy graduation in 1994. These two controversies have cast uncertainty on her winning New Jersey, which is reliably a Democratic stronghold.
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Concha, a New Jersey resident himself, said the election isn’t about how it starts, but how it ends. He said almost all current polls put Ciattarelli and Sherrill in a “dead heat,” including one that was “the most accurate” on the 2024 election.
“So we have a Mikie Sherrill who, this is a business show, still can’t explain how she tripled her worth and made $7 million in stocks, defense stocks, amazingly that she picked just like [former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband] Paul Pelosi would, while she was on the Armed Services committee in the House,” Concha said on Fox Business’s Varney & Co.
“So, between that, between the fact that she obviously has a cheating scandal on her hands, she couldn’t even walk with her graduating class at the Naval Academy for some reason, yet she won’t explain or at least release the transcript as far as her disciplinary records. Jack Ciattarelli has all the momentum right now,” Concha said.
Concha added that President Donald Trump almost won New Jersey against former Vice President Kamala Harris last year, and Ciattarelli lost his last gubernatorial election against sitting Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy by only a few points. He said this, combined with Sherrill’s controversies, makes him think Ciattarelli could become the next governor.
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Sherrill did not cheat amid the 1994 Naval Academy scandal, but she said she wasn’t allowed to walk at graduation because she did not report her classmates who were involved. She is listed as a “notable graduate” on the school’s website and received the Navy Achievement Medal for saving the life of a classmate at the academy.
Ciattarelli promoted a website targeting Sherrill’s stock exchanges on X Monday. The post included Sherrell’s appearance on The Breakfast Club radio show, where she said she doesn’t trade “individual stocks.”