Atlantic City, NJ (AP)-with weeks in New Jersey’s breed of the governor of New Jersey, the most crucial members of the diverse coalition of the Democrats, including the Union and Black Guide, have concerns if they shouldn’t.
The democratic chairman of New Jersey State, Leroy Jones Jr., recently spoke about a conference conference in the Democratic National Committee, which was to project strength before the autumn elections. Nevertheless, he made a warning.
“As a black man, not just as a black chair, we have to do better,” said Jones, referring to challenges with the black community of the state.
The voters of New Jersey on November 4 will decide an election that has sparked intensive interest from both gigantic political parties – as well as the White House. The race, together with a choice for the Governor of Virginia, is seen as an early sign of how voters feel about President Donald Trump and the leadership of the Republicans. Trump hopes that a victory of his republican loyalist Jack Ciattarelli will send a resounding message against democratic MP Mikie Sherrill that his GOP has been more than ever before.
And when the election day is approaching, Trump and his allies always become confident that the prospects of her party in New Jersey, more than in Virginia, who currently has a Republican governor. Trump, who supported Ciattarelli, was positive in a social media contribution last week.
“Jack is tough in terms of crimes and taxes, two things that people really ask today. He will be a big governor,” wrote Trump. According to Trump’s allies, a visit to the presidential before the election day was not excluded.
In the meantime, democratic leaders are working to downplay the expectations in the race for the successor to the democratic governor Phil Murphy, who will end his second term at the end of the year. They quickly find that the Democrats have not won three consecutive governor elections in New Jersey since 1961.
New Jersey reliably supported Democrats in the President and the US Senate races, but swung the governor of Republicans and Democrats during the elections. Four years ago, Murphy defeated Ciattarelli in a rather expected race and won with around 3 percentage points.
“The governor of New Jersey’s governors are always very competitive,” said Meghan Mehan-Draper, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association. “We knew all the time that this would be a tight race.”
Loosening of Democrats to workers
Traditionally, organized workforce has supported Democrats. This is not necessarily the case in the Trump era – a potential problem for democrats in a state with one of the highest members of the country’s union membership.
Abi Ortiz, a 61-year-old local president of the team in Southern New Jersey, said that he had seen a significant change between the members to the GOP in recent years.
“I thought I would never see it,” said Ortiz, who started as a team in 1987 as a UPS truck driver. “But now we actually demand that the candidates say: ‘What will you do for the working class?'”
The democratic state, Senator John Burzichelli, said that the loosening of the Democrats’ workers was a red flag. The path through the problem is more discussions with members and voters.
“The national democrat brand that I don’t believe is in a good place,” said Burzichelli. “The support of the (union) leadership is one thing, but the support of rank and file is different. We have to make sure that it is reminded that the state party differs from the National Party brand.”
And as Democrats fear, there are signs that Ciattarelli gets into harmony. Last week he won the fraternal decision of the police, the only major law enforcement union in the state, which previously supported a candidate. Ciattarelli is the first Republican to win the support of the Union for decades.
This is even the way Sherrill’s politics is largely geared towards the established interests of the unions.
Sanrill was recently approved by the Teamsters Council, which represents the members of the Union’s southern New Jersey. In a speech to the members of Atlantic City Last week, she said that New Jersey will never become a “right to work” on her watch and promised to protect collective bargaining rights and to protect standing ovations from the ballroom full of members. A law of “right to work” prohibits a company and a union to sign a contract according to which the employees have to pay fees or fees to the union that they represent.
In an interview, Sherrill said that she took into account how crucial it is not only to win union officers, but also members.
“I need unions that join me in this fight,” she said. “But it is not enough to have leadership in battle. I need the boys on the ground, and so my job is as soon as I have this support to continue to fight this fight on site.”
Slip the support of black voters?
Democrats are also concerned that more and more black voters, usually loyal democrats, vote for Ciattarelli or not appear at all.
Sanrill hoped to partly support the support among the black voters by selecting the black Rev. Dale Caldwell as a running mate. Some local groups applauded the move. Others said that sharing the ticket with a black man couldn’t be enough.
The meeting woman Shavonda Sumter, a democrat from North New Jersey, who leads the legislative black caucus, said she has seen Sherrill’s reach to black voters since the area code in June.
She said black voters tell her that you want to hear plans that expand access to university education and make up a larger proportion of government procurement contracts in black and own.
“I think it is critical that she reaches as many people as possible,” said Sumter. “People are looking for their voices that can be heard.”
In the meantime, Ciattarelli puts his campaign as an attempt to reach most, if not all of the more than 500 cities in the state, including democratic areas with gigantic black areas. This month, for example, he visited Irlington, a city with a predominantly black population who voted for the democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris about Trump with a 10: 1 ratio.
Billy Premph, a veteran of the Air Force and the youngest Republican congress candidate, said he speaks to black voters who feel disillusioned by the democratic leadership.
He said that Sherrill’s message, which is largely responsible for the problems of the state at Trump, does not combine as it has for Democrats in previous years.
“Trump is the President of the United States, but he does not make the daily decisions of what is happening here in the state of New Jersey,” said Premph.
“Many people who voted Lockstep with the Democratic Party, be it in contradiction to President Trump or just because they are traditional die -hard democrats, do they now look at it like:” Well, what exactly did the Democrats do to drive the state? “
