{"id":875926,"date":"2021-10-13T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=875926"},"modified":"2021-10-13T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:29:47","slug":"murphy-ciattarelli-go-head-to-head-in-final-n-j-governor-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/murphy-ciattarelli-go-head-to-head-in-final-n-j-governor-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy, Ciattarelli go head-to-head in final N.J. governor debate"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fmurphy-ciattarelli-go-head-to-head-in-final-n-j-governor-debate%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=875926&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 id=\"attachment_2548364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2548364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incumbent Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., right, speaks while Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli listens during a gubernatorial debate at Rowan University\u2019s Pfleeger Concert Hall Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, in Glassboro, N.J. (AP Photo\/Frank Franklin II, Pool)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 1:02 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, October 13, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Incumbent New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) and his Republican opponent Jack Ciattarelli duke it out in the second and final debate. New Jersey has not re-elected a Democrat for a second term as governor since 1977. On Tuesday, Gov. Murphy made his final pitch to the people of New Jersey as to why he deserves to break that trend.<\/p>\n<p>Ciattarelli suggested if Murphy breaks the nearly half a century trend and becomes re-elected, New Jersey would continue its downward spiral of expensive living and lack of services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t mind a governor who says if taxes are your issue, we\u2019re probably not your state. If you don\u2019t mind a governor who says he wants to make New Jersey the California of the East Coast, vote for Phil Murphy,\u201d said Ciattarelli. \u201cMy plan is very simple. I want to lower property taxes with a new school funding formula. I want to create more jobs by making New Jersey the best place in the country to do business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the dominating topic in the debate was how the two candidates plan to handle COVID. Murphy has faced mounting criticism for his handling of the virus considering New Jersey has the second highest per capita death rate from COVID-19 in the whole U.S. under his watch.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A clip from my Up Close with Bill Ritter interview. No one said handling a pandemic would be easy. But the least we expect from our Governor is consistency, leadership &amp; competency. We can do better. When I&#8217;m Governor, we will.<\/p>\n<p>Full interview here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xunLGichWP\">https:\/\/t.co\/xunLGichWP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/89A2qXbVxV\">pic.twitter.com\/89A2qXbVxV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Ciattarelli (@Jack4NJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jack4NJ\/status\/1447698528763977736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nursing home deaths at the start of the pandemic, like that of neighboring New York, has bogged the governor down in federal investigations. Nearly a third of all deaths in New Jersey came from the nursing homes. When asked why he hasn\u2019t looked into the issue on his own, the governor deflected and implied his opponent is an anti-vaccine advocate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is quite clear. The tragedy today is there is a playbook. We know vaccines work. We know masking works,\u201d Murphy went on. \u201cFor folks to ignore that, disregard that playbook, is putting lives needlessly at risk. It feels like an answer you\u2019d see in a debate in Texas or Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although, Ciattarelli has claimed he\u2019s neither anti-vaccine nor anti-mask. He is, however, pro-individual liberty on the issues. The former assemblyman said he thinks the best way to get more people vaccinated isn\u2019t by using the government to force them, but rather by giving them proper information and letting them choose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am vaccinated. I promoted my vaccination. I encourage people to get vaccinated,\u201d said Ciattarelli. \u201cAnd, I just believe that my role as governor, when elected, is to provide the information people need to make an informed decision. I will always promote, preserve, and protect the public health and safety and get people the information they need, and then the choice is theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polls have showed Murphy is the odds on favorite to win the re-election, with the latest showing him nine points ahead of Ciattarelli. However, the race has inched closer since May when Murphy had a 26-point advantage.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, New Jersey voters will head to the polls starting Oct. 23 with the final day of voting coming to a close on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/israeli-foreign-minister-comes-to-u-s\/\">Israeli Foreign Minister Comes To U.S.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., right, speaks while Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli listens during a gubernatorial debate at Rowan University\u2019s Pfleeger Concert Hall Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, in Glassboro, N.J. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-875926","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\/875926","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875926\/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=875926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}