Posted on 11/04/2021 2:26:04 AM PDT by Libloather
Republican New Jersey state Senate candidate and truck driver Ed Durr is on the verge of defeating longtime Senate President Steve Sweeney in a sweeping victory that would upend Democratic Party leadership in the Garden State.
The 62-year-old Raymour & Flanagan truck driver holds a lead of more than 2,000 votes in a tight race for the state's Third District Senate seat.
"I didn’t beat him. We beat him," Durr said on "Fox News Primetime" late Wednesday. "The state of New Jersey, the people of New Jersey beat him. They listened to what I had to say and I listened to what they had to say, and it’s a repudiation of Governor Murphy [who] went and locked us down and ignored the people’s voice and senator Sweeney chose to do nothing for those 18 months," he said.
Durr reportedly spent under $5,000 on his general election campaign. His campaign video was filmed on an iPhone by the nephew of a good friend, he said.
His victory proves that " you cannot tell people they can’t have a job. You can’t tell people they can’t go to church," he told host Rachel Campos-Duffy. "And that’s what was done. And there was nothing done by the legislature, so this was the people’s voice being made heard clear."
Durr said he felt compelled to run against Sweeney over frustrations stemming from the state's coronavirus response and lockdowns, which had a crippling impact on employment in the state.
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Chill. Get a laptop and open up some RAT emails.
We have one real citizen patriot winner here. God Bless New Jersey!!
“Asked what he plans to do on his first day as Senate president”
Doesn’t the majority party vote for who they want in that spot? If so, how does a GOP nob get it?
Yeah, those jobs are reserved for some goom bagabones.
Exactly. The author of this article is ‘effing ignorant … which is apparently a primary qualification for employment at Fox News.
I love stories like this... representation was intended for people like Mr. Durr.. not lifetime elites. He will bring a needed common-man perspective to the state Senate.
Still a step ahead of fraud pedojoe “I’ve shat myself” bidet…
One of the best wins of the day. I wish him most well.
Defeating the Senate President just makes you a Senator, not the Senate President. Anyway, I think the Democrats kept control of both houses of the NJ legislature. It is hard to figure out the new party breakdown from the news. The majority party picks the Senate President. A new senator who was a truck driver who did not campaign much is unlikely to get a leadership position.
If the dim was ahead by 2,000 votes he would have been declared the winner.
In football terms he’s an interior lineman-I’d call him a big ugly.
The current Senate President was a thorn in the side of King Murphy.
*A new senator who was a truck driver who did not campaign much is unlikely to get a leadership position.*
Is Kevin McCarthy ripe for the same treatment? Just think. The GOP takes back the house. Would you want him for speaker or Jim Jordan?
This truck driver is 62 years old. Time to collect his SSI and another-probably small-government paycheck.
Jim Jordan is my rep. What do you think? McCarthy is a tool.
May the Lord bless Ed Durr. Amen.
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