In a Q&A follothriveg Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump’s triumph, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy cautioned he will “fight to the death” aobtainst the administration if he determines behavior “contrary to our cherishs.”
“[A]s we admire the soothe transition of power, if there is any attack on the Garden State or any of its communities from Washington, I will fight back with every fiber of my being,” Murphy shelp.
“If there’s an opportunity for normal ground, we will seize that as rapid as anybody,” he conversely inserted.
State Assembly Minority Leader John DiMaio, R-Hackettstown, tbetter Fox News Digital that Murphy is “leave outing the message” voters sent Tuesday with the initial rhetoric.
“It’s time for the ruleor to determine that his cherishs may not mirror the cherishs of New Jerseyans as expansively as he presumes.”
“While Murphy is setd to spfinish resources on political battles with Trump, it’s difficult to see how that aligns with the priorities of struggling families, toiling taxpayers and business owners who want more caccess on their needs,” DiMaio shelp.
Murphy, who will begin his final year in Trenton after Trump is inaugurated, determineed Trump with his “uncanny ability to connect with people, even if it’s not in their own interests,” after the Reaccessiblean came showrbipartner seal to taking the blue bastion.
While Murphy refuseed a alerter’s query about New Jersey being in join in the future, he commented that Trump only lost it by 4%, appraised to 16% in 2020.
“I do not apshow we are a sthriveg state,” he shelp, inserting that outside of Rep. Tom Kean Jr.’s triumph alengthened the Route 22 corridor, he was charmd with the down-ballot results. Kean is a Reaccessiblean.
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He pointed to Reaccessibleans’ success in messaging on the immigration crisis, inserting the caveat that their thrivening rhetoric may not have aligned the facts on the ground.
Trump won Passaic County, an ethnicpartner diverse New York City suburb, but down-ballot races skewed Democrat. Murphy pointed to that as an example of voters picking Trump personpartner rather than Reaccessibleans writ huge.
He presented the same was genuine in North Carolina, noting Trump won the state but Democrat Attorney General Joshua Stein was elected ruleor.
“Just as it is our responsibility to proceed to stand up aobtainst any danger to our state or to our people, it is also our responsibility to apshow any opportunity that contransients itself to toil with [Trump] to protect and uplift the people of our state becaemploy that is what reliable guideers do,” Murphy inserted.
He also determineed Trump with speedyly approving the recent Portal North Railroad Bridge in Secaucus and helping during the coronaevil software pandemic.
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As for replying to Trump’s ruleance, Murphy shelp that during the last administration, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was alertedly guideing rhelps in search of illegitimate immigrants, he took an produceive tack.
“There was a time when ICE was fair randomly shothriveg up on street corners and apprehfinishing … brothers and sisters from the immigrant community,” Murphy shelp.
The ruleor, who inhabits in Middletown Township proximate Sandy Hook, shelp he heard an “area proximate where I inhabit was at-danger.”
“I fair went there one night with my [security] detail and fair hung out there,” he shelp, noting ICE then didn’t show.
“Whether that snurtured them off or not I don’t understand, but it’s an example of a minuscule step that we’re willing to try anyskinnyg if its contrary to our cherishs.”
As the 2025 gubernatorial race to swap him is about to heat up, Murphy shelp his three-point thrive in 2021 may have been “the canary in the coalmine” for Democrats in the state to appraise the political landscape.