With under a day to go before polls open in New Jersey and Virginia, a new poll released by Trafalgar found the gubernatorial races in both states neck-and-neck.
According to Trafalgar, incumbent New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is leading his Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli by just 4.2%, with 4.3% of voters still undecided and likely to make their decision as they enter the voting booth.
Ciattarelli has trailed Murphy throughout the campaign, but he has been consistently cutting deeper into the Democrat’s lead over the past several months, with polls showing Murphy’s dropping from the mid-20s to single digits.
Both Murphy and Ciattarelli have made overtures to Lakewood frum community in an attempt to garner support in the frum-majority city of 135,000, and a fierce debate has been raging over who frum Jews should support.
The Lakewood Vaad and BMG Roshei Yeshiva, as well as Agudath Israel New Jersey Director Rabbi Avi Schnall, have endorsed Murphy for reelection, saying they have a strong relationship with him. They additionally say that frum Jews owe Mr. Murphy a debt of hakaras hatov for not shutting down shuls and yeshivos at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
On the other side of the debate, numerous askanim and a handful of rabbanim have thrown their support behind Jack Ciattarelli, whom they will support and advance the true needs and interests of the overall Lakewood community, rather than only the wishes of a few power brokers and wealthy business leaders.
In Virginia, a separate Trafalgar survey found that Republican Glenn Youngkin leads his incumbent Democratic opponent Terry McAuliffe by 2.3%, 49.4% to 47.1%, with 1.6% still undecided.
Youngkin was recently the target of a political stunt carried out by the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, in which five Democratic activists dressed up as tiki-torch bearing white supremacists and announced their support for Youngkin at one of his campaign stops.
The stunt failed and the organizers of the stupid prank were exposed, leading to numerous political analysts to question whether internal polling shows Youngkin with an even larger lead than public polls suggest.
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Thanks for reminding everyone where the values of Lakewood and BMG leaders are… lgbtq +++, welfare state, build back better, abortion, and tottal Sodom!
NJ won’t have the Republican winning. VA might.
Jack Ciattarelli’s policy on gay marriage:
Do you support the legalization of same sex marriage?
Yes, but allow churches the right to refuse same-sex ceremonies.
Ciattarelli said he supports a woman’s right to get an abortion and if the U.S. Supreme Court undoes Roe v. Wade, he said, he would sign a law that protects abortion rights in New Jersey.
But he would impose limits: no abortions after 20 weeks, and minors should have to get a parent’s consent.
A a member of the Legislature, Ciattarelli repeatedly voted against legislation that would have reinstated the $7.5 million Christie cut to women’s clinics.
So there you have it. Both Murphy & Ciattarelli are lowlife mushchasim!
Vote for the Libertarian party candidate Gregg Mele. He’s pro life and will cut all State funding to planned Parenthood. It’s not clear though what his position on gay marriage is.
What about the Project Veritas expose that showed MUrphy’s true colors regarding vaccine mandates? Can you trust someone who has an agenda he hides from voters just so he can win an election?
“On the other side of the debate, numerous askanim and a handful of rabbanim have thrown their support behind Jack Ciattarelli, whom they will support and advance the true needs and interests of the overall Lakewood community, rather than only the wishes of a few power brokers and wealthy business leaders.”
This seems to be a subtle but not so subtle rebuke of the Lakewood Vaad and BMG Roshei Yeshiva in their support of the Democratic incumbent. Perhaps YWN should rethink the language it uses in making a recommendation for a particular candidate in reflecting what it believes is Da’as Torah. Was this statement the result of a consensus survey of the Vaad of Rabanim that supports and provides guidance to YWN?
Mindful, please stay away from bizayon talmidei chachomim,
I’m voting for guy with the straight teeth! Never trust a politician with crooked teeth and a crooked mind!
MURPHY WILL MANDATE VACCINES FOR YOUR CHILDREN! VOTE CIATTERELLI
The only reason Murphy didn’t close Shuls was because Cuomo did and he lost the case in court.