{"id":969261,"date":"2021-11-04T19:59:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969261"},"modified":"2021-11-04T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:59:17","slug":"its-official-conservative-truck-driver-edward-durr-defeats-nj-democrat-state-senate-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-official-conservative-truck-driver-edward-durr-defeats-nj-democrat-state-senate-president\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Official: Conservative Truck Driver Edward Durr Defeats NJ Democrat State Senate President"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fits-official-conservative-truck-driver-edward-durr-defeats-nj-democrat-state-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=969261&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-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Associated Press has called the race for New Jersey\u2019s State Senate District 3 for Republican truck driver Edward Durr, who has stunned the political world by defeating State Senate President Steve Sweeney by 2,298 votes, or nearly 4%.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/after-spending-just-153-on-campaign-truck-driver-beats-nj-senate-president\/3378682\/\">call<\/a> came on Thursday, two days after an off-year election that saw Republicans sweep many races, including the race for governor of Virginia. The GOP nearly won the governor\u2019s race in New Jersey, too, which few expected to be competitive.<\/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>In an exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/03\/exclusive-truck-driver-edward-durr-how-i-took-out-new-jerseys-top-democratic-boss\/\">interview<\/a> with Breitbart News on Wednesday, Durr said that he won because of a \u201cperfect storm\u201d in the state that resulted from severe coronavirus restrictions that saw the governor and the Democrats interfere with families\u2019 basic rights:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"22\">\n<p>\u201cThe main issue was rights,\u201d Durr said, via phone. \u201cPeople talk about how New Jersey has the highest taxes, and we\u2019re the worst state for business, with high debt, and so on, but bottom line is rights. It\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen somebody\u2019s messing with your family, you\u2019ll do anything,\u201d he said. \u201cThe governor was messing with people\u2019s families. When you mess with somebody\u2019s job, their livelihood, their home, their children \u2014 people just won\u2019t take that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sweeney had refused to debate Durr during the campaign, reportedly laughing at Durr when he challenged him.<\/p>\n<p>Durr ran a bare-bones campaign that cost less than $10,000. He walked door-to-door with volunteers after work, and did not even have a website outside Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney had been the longest-serving legislative leader in the history of the state.<\/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>The Associated Press has called the race for New Jersey\u2019s State Senate District 3 for Republican truck driver Edward Durr, who has stunned the political world by defeating State Senate &#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-969261","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\/969261","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=969261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969261\/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=969261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}