Are N.J. Republicans really doomed now that Christie is gone and Murphy is in charge?

Newark Star-Ledger ^ | March 18, 2018 | Brent Johnson

[GuavaCheesePuff]

For eight years, the Republican Party in New Jersey revolved around one person: Chris Christie.

But the two-term governor is gone now, and the Jersey GOP is in poor shape. Almost irrelevant, really, with Democrat Phil Murphy in the governor's seat and his party firmly in control of the state Legislature.

In fact, Republicans are left with their smallest number of state lawmakers in nearly four decades -- 41 out of 120 seats in the Legislature. In Washington, no Republican has been elected to the U.S. Senate since 1972, and Democrats are aiming at picking up a U.S. House seat or three in November's mid-term elections.

Few states have a lower opinion of Republican President Donald Trump, and registered Democratic voters outnumber Republicans nearly 2-to-1.

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[Anti-Bubba182]

After Democrats tax hell out of everything it is the Democrats who should be in trouble.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

See, there's no pleasing leftists.

Either Republicans go hard conservative, or they sit back and let the Dems screw everybody. Because this so-called moderate crap doesn't work. If it did, CA would be a RINO paradise.

[Luke21]

That nutbag state has been doomed for a very long time.

[Sooth2222]

The last time that a Democrat was reelected for a second term as a New Jersey governor was Brendan Byrne in 1978.

Murphy will be an epic disaster. He'll raise taxes on everything, but tax revenues will fall.

[allendale]

Christie got elected because he followed McGreevy and Corzine. They were both corrupt and incompetent. Sadly he squandered his legacy and power with his juvenile George Washington Bridge stunt. A statewide Republican needs to carry 57% of the vote to get elected. Otherwise they cannot overcome the endemic voter fraud in urban areas .

[Bonemaker]

My heart goes out to the normal people of NJ.just like it does to those in CA, CT, and here in illannoy.

[Williams]

It’s all demographics they loaded Northern NJ with “immigrants”.

[CaptainK]

If Christie hadn’t given Obama that big hug, and taken that obnoxious family only day at the beach, the Republican candidate might have won.

[VTenigma]

Are N.J. Republicans really doomed now that Christie is gone and Murphy is in charge?

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No,N.J. is doomed.

[VeniVidiVici]

Few states have a lower opinion of Republican President Donald Trump, and registered Democratic voters outnumber Republicans nearly 2-to-1.

And yet New Jersey puts up with screamingly high taxes. And with Democrats having a "California majority", bend over because here it comes. You're gonna get Murphyed.

[rstrahan]

NJ folk are moving out, selling, even taking a loss to get out of NJ. See them every day

[Alberta's Child]

The GOP isn't doomed in New Jersey. It's just plain 'effing useless. Tom Kean Jr. is the minority leader for the GOP in the New Jersey Senate? It doesn't get any more pathetic than that, folks. Kean couldn't lead anyone out of a burning house.

For all his flaws, Christie was in a no-win situation because it was impossible to govern as a Republican in a state where the Democrats have had large majorities in both houses of the state legislature for years.

The GOP will be a permanent minority party because Republicans have been fleeing this place in droves. Major employers move to places like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and Texas ... and they take a whole bunch of productive citizens with them.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

True.

The suburbs of Morris, Bergen, some parts of Middlesex, Cumberland, Burlington, Atlantic can’t overcome Newark and Elizabeth.

[dfwgator]

NJ folk are moving out, selling, even taking a loss to get out of NJ. See them every day

They have to find a new nest to foul.

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[Lurkinanloomin]

If Christie was the best they had then NJ Republicans were already doomed.

[Lurkinanloomin]

That’s exactly what they do, Virginia is the latest victim of Northeast liberals ruining a solid state.

[shanover]

It’s basically,”Will the last Conservative in NJ turn out the lights?”, I will be moving to a free state and have always been Conservative. The state is controlled by North Jersey urban political and “diverse” scum, and some of the wealthiest counties in America of liberal white rich. It could be two states politically like many in our fractured Republic. The state used to be a manufacturing and agricultural giant and now only makes liberalism.