{"id":1002760,"date":"2021-11-12T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1002760"},"modified":"2021-11-12T10:58:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:58:38","slug":"got-fed-up-with-it-truck-driver-edward-durr-who-unseated-top-democrat-speaks-out-against-high-taxes-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/got-fed-up-with-it-truck-driver-edward-durr-who-unseated-top-democrat-speaks-out-against-high-taxes-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Got Fed Up With It\u2019: Truck Driver Edward Durr, Who Unseated Top Democrat, Speaks Out Against High Taxes, Lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgot-fed-up-with-it-truck-driver-edward-durr-who-unseated-top-democrat-speaks-out-against-high-taxes-lockdowns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1002760&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican state Senator-elect Edward Durr of New Jersey said Thursday night he ran for office because he was \u201cfed up\u201d with high taxes and lockdowns in the state.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey state Senate President Steve Sweeney, a Democrat, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/581049-nj-senate-president-sweeney-concedes-in-dramatic-upset\">conceded<\/a> the election Wednesday to Durr.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight,\u201d the Fox News host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/ed-durr-truck-driver-republican-new-jersey-senate\">asked<\/a> Durr what prompted him to run. Durr cited \u201cthe high cost of living, worst tax rate, and the nursing home deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just became a combination of everything, and I got fed up with it,\u201d Durr said. Durr shared that rather than leave New Jersey, he decided to \u201cfix the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson responded, noting that Durr has received both praise and scrutiny in the media for having unseated Sweeney. Comments made by Durr on his Twitter account regarding Islam being a \u201ccult of hate\u201d have <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/jersey-state-senator-elect-deletes-032459014.html\">drawn<\/a> ire from some people and the media.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inflation crisis is starting to feel intentional: Durr\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qbEg49WSEBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Durr admitted he was surprised by the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it was a major thing to beat the senate president. He\u2019d been in there a long time. But everyone else has kind of made it a big deal,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Durr said that it wasn\u2019t just him who won in New Jersey, giving kudos to fellow candidates Bethanne McCarthy Patrick and Beth Sawyer, among others. McCarthy Patrick and Sawyer also beat their Democratic opponents in the third district in arguable upsets, the New Jersey Globe <a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/legislature\/where-new-jerseys-legislative-races-stand-with-nearly-all-votes-counted\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In concluding the interview, Carlson asked Durr if he\u2019d spoken with Sweeney since he won the election.<\/p>\n<p>Durr shared that he and Sweeney spoke via phone and Sweeney had congratulated him on his victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him if he ever needed anything, to give me a call because I\u2019m his representative now,\u201d Durr said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican state Senator-elect Edward Durr of New Jersey said Thursday night he ran for office because he was \u201cfed up\u201d with high taxes and lockdowns in the state.New Jersey state &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}