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New Jersey’s Blue Wall Is Crumbling, and Democrats Know It
PJ Media ^ | 07/11/2025 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 07/11/2025 10:02:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Democratic Party is sounding the alarm in New Jersey, and for good reason.

What should have been a cakewalk in a deep-blue state has turned into a frantic scramble, with party leaders dumping millions into the governor’s race in a desperate bid to stave off electoral disaster. Democrats are terrified that their grip on New Jersey is slipping, and they’re willing to throw everything at the wall to keep it from shattering.

New Jersey, a state that reliably votes blue in national elections, has long been considered a Democratic stronghold. But the political winds have shifted. The party that once took victory for granted now finds itself in a full-blown panic, pouring cash into a race that should have been an afterthought. The reason? Voters are restless, and the Democratic brand is tarnished.

This isn’t just about one election. It’s about the growing sense that Democrats are losing their grip on New Jersey. Donald Trump’s support in New Jersey has grown with each election, hitting a record 1.9 million votes in 2024.

On top of that, activist Scott Presler, whose grassroots efforts helped flip Pennsylvania back to Trump, is now focusing on New Jersey, aiming to replicate that success. With momentum building and the GOP narrowing registration gaps, New Jersey’s long-standing Democratic dominance could be in serious jeopardy. A Republican breakthrough in 2025 — and even a red flip in the next presidential election — is no longer out of the question.

And the Democratic Party is essentially admitting there’s a problem for them in the state by flooding millions of dollars into the gubernatorial race. You don’t pour millions into a safe seat unless you’re worried it’s about to slip through your fingers. The panic is palpable.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: bluestate; democrats; mattmargolis; newjersey; pjmedia; scottpresler
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Same here in the north, but the NYC-Philly corridor smokes both our counties.


21 posted on 07/11/2025 10:53:12 AM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you disarmed because they intend on doing things you would shoot them for.)
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To: SeekAndFind

With all the fund raising problems the Democrats have, where are they getting the millions of dollars to funnel into New Jersey?


22 posted on 07/11/2025 10:54:36 AM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah this is Lucy with the football wishful thinking.


23 posted on 07/11/2025 10:55:29 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: SeekAndFind
Voters are restless, and the Democratic brand is tarnished.

That is a generous assessment. Their brand is insanity, riots and death. That is black, tarry poop tarnish.

24 posted on 07/11/2025 10:58:56 AM PDT by Kudsman (I am Coal baby! Burning for you. )
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To: Alberta's Child
Election fraud hasn’t been a big thing in New Jersey in years

What?

25 posted on 07/11/2025 11:06:16 AM PDT by frogjerk
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To: SeekAndFind

26 posted on 07/11/2025 11:46:25 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: MinorityRepublican
So? Before he lost his marbles, he was quite approachable because he was a career politican.

"Approachable". Now you've changed the subject from idiocy to approachability.

You said, "Joe Biden did well in 2020. I think they didn’t like Harris because she was basically an idiot."

To which I simply responded that Biden was an idiot too (and senile).

27 posted on 07/11/2025 12:13:41 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Dr. Franklin

“South and Central New Jersey are sparsely populated, e.g. the pinelands. It is North Jersey that is extremely urban, and that means the Rat fraud machine is vast there.”

It is not a North South Jersey issue. There are vast parts of North Jersey that are rural and Conservative. It is a Route 1 Corridor thing. 15 miles on either side of that road is democrat infested. The democrats strength lies along Rt 1 from New York to Philadelphia. Once you get away from Rt 1, either south or north, the democrat influence shrinks.


28 posted on 07/11/2025 12:48:25 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, black Trump supporter, executed in the street in broad daylight 2020.a)
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To: XRdsRev

Does that rte1 corridor have sanctuary policies along it? Asking for Tom Homan.


29 posted on 07/11/2025 2:16:19 PM PDT by Kudsman (I am Coal baby! Burning for you. )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

30 posted on 07/11/2025 5:14:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: Rummyfan

Frank “the Lout” is dead. In fact, I’m not convinced he was alive when he ran for the Senate seat in 2002.

Regarding NJ Democrats in general, if they had acted like this in 1860, New Jersey probably would have seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy.


31 posted on 07/11/2025 7:21:46 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: FreeReign
Ah, Joe's an idiot and he's senile.

Senile old crook. And Harris was a nullity.

32 posted on 07/11/2025 8:04:08 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: SeekAndFind
Christine Todd Whitman was a Republican. What did that get us?
33 posted on 07/11/2025 8:06:18 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: Rummyfan

So was the fat one more recently — Chris Christie.


34 posted on 07/11/2025 9:37:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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