{"id":966551,"date":"2021-11-04T08:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=966551"},"modified":"2021-11-04T08:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:58:55","slug":"republican-jack-ciattarellis-campaign-calls-aps-decision-for-democrat-phil-murphy-irresponsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-jack-ciattarellis-campaign-calls-aps-decision-for-democrat-phil-murphy-irresponsible\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Jack Ciattarelli&#039;s Campaign Calls AP&#039;s Decision for Democrat Phil Murphy &#039;Irresponsible&#039;"},"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\">24<\/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%2Frepublican-jack-ciattarellis-campaign-calls-aps-decision-for-democrat-phil-murphy-irresponsible%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=966551&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Republican Jack Ciattarelli\u2019s campaign says it\u2019s \u201cirresponsible\u201d the Associated Press called the New Jersey race for Democrat governor Phil Murphy so early in the counting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cWith the candidates separated by a fraction of a percent out of 2.4 million ballots cast, it\u2019s irresponsible of the media to make this call when the New Jersey Secretary of State doesn\u2019t even know how many ballots are left to be counted,\u201d Ciattarelli Campaign Communications Director Stami Williams said on Twitter Wednesday.<\/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<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.625\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With the candidates separated by a fraction of a percent out of 2.4 million ballots cast, it\u2019s irresponsible of the media to make this call when the New Jersey Secretary of State doesn\u2019t even know how many ballots are left to be counted. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DnwIRASspC\">https:\/\/t.co\/DnwIRASspC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stami Williams (@StamiLW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StamiLW\/status\/1456030420974383114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Both the Associated Press and the <em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;called the race in favor of Phil Murphy on Wednesday evening when he led Ciattarelli by just over 19,000 votes. Since then, with 90 percent reporting, Murphy\u2019s lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/11\/02\/us\/elections\/results-new-jersey.html\">has widened<\/a> to over 29,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The delay in having the race called likely stemmed from a snafu out of Essex County, where a poll worker mistakenly shut off voting machines in 56 districts before the count had finished.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cA mistake by a poll worker led machines in 56 voting districts in Essex County, the state\u2019s second-most populated region,&nbsp;to be turned off&nbsp;before their ballots were tallied, local election officials said,\u201d reported the&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/03\/nj-governor-race-results-delayed-amid-poll-machine-snafus\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPFacebook&amp;sr_share=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><em>New York Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Essex County, Passaic County had similar voting issues in five districts that heavily leaned toward Murphy, which likely delayed the call into Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Murphy\u2019s projected victory, Democrats are fretting over how close&nbsp;Ciattarelli came to pulling off an upset in a race that had him&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-jersey\/story\/2021\/10\/27\/monmouth-poll-murphy-leading-ciattarelli-by-11-points-in-new-jersey-gubernatorial-race-1392061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">down by 11 points<\/a>&nbsp;just a week ago, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/WAlCU\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a> warning Democrats the poor turnout could be a harbinger of doom for 2020.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18594282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/NJ.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18594282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/NJ.jpeg\" alt=\"New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli speaks at his watch party on November 02, 2021 in Bridgewater, New Jersey.(Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli speaks at his watch party on November 02, 2021 in Bridgewater, New Jersey.(Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNew Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy narrowly won his race for a second term Wednesday night, to the relief of Democrats stunned by their loss in Virginia, but the narrow margin and a strong Republican surge across the Garden State left them alarmed and wondering what went wrong,\u201d WaPo noted.<\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. Senator Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.) said the election results showed Democrats lost \u201cpersuadable\u201d voters in the Garden State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the base was fine,\u201d Torricelli said. \u201cThis wasn\u2019t the base. It was the persuadable voters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Jack Ciattarelli\u2019s campaign says it\u2019s \u201cirresponsible\u201d the Associated Press called the New Jersey race for Democrat governor Phil Murphy so early in the counting. \u201cWith the candidates separated by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"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-966551","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\/966551","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966551\/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=966551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}