{"id":964163,"date":"2021-11-03T19:29:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=964163"},"modified":"2021-11-03T19:29:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:29:06","slug":"truck-driver-edward-durr-holds-2229-vote-lead-over-democrat-senate-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/truck-driver-edward-durr-holds-2229-vote-lead-over-democrat-senate-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Driver Edward Durr Holds 2,229-vote Lead over Democrat Senate President"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Ftruck-driver-edward-durr-holds-2229-vote-lead-over-democrat-senate-president%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=964163&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Edward-Durr-Facebook-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Truck driver Edward Durr (R) holds a 2,229-vote lead over New Jersey State Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford) in the race for the 3rd district State Senate seat \u2014 one of the most surprising results of Tuesday\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to NJ.com, Durr had 32,497 votes to Sweeney\u2019s 30,268 votes with all precincts reporting as of Wednesday evening \u2014 a margin of nearly 4%. He has not yet officially won yet, but Sweeney delayed Senate leadership elections.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sweeney is one of the most powerful Democrats in the state, and the longest-serving state legislative leader in New Jersey history. Durr only spent $153 on his entire campaign, most of it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/truck-driver-leads-nj-senate-president-after-spending-153-on-campaign\/3030225\/\">apparently<\/a> on paper fliers and on food from Dunkin Donuts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Durr is the recipient of a sudden flood of attention, including admiration for his quirky, amateur-quality campaign video.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" readability=\"4.0366972477064\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I LOVE <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edwarddurr1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@edwarddurr1<\/a>\u2018s campaign video! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/exQmVhvcY8\">pic.twitter.com\/exQmVhvcY8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kerpen\/status\/1455899165230354448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Durr describes himself on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ED4NJ\">Facebook<\/a> page \u2014 he does not have a campaign website \u2014 as a blue collar conservative. He has run for public office, and says he was motivated by being denied a cancel carry firearms permit for no particular reason.<\/p>\n<p>The race for governor between incumbent Democrat Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli remains too close to call. Few gave the Republican any chance of winning before he turned in a surprisingly strong result on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truck driver Edward Durr (R) holds a 2,229-vote lead over New Jersey State Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-West Deptford) in the race for the 3rd district State Senate seat \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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-964163","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\/964163","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964163\/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=964163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}