{"id":985665,"date":"2021-11-08T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T21:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=985665"},"modified":"2021-11-08T16:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T21:13:49","slug":"it-was-just-a-tsunami-leader-of-powerful-democratic-org-says-nobody-expected-such-a-narrow-victory-for-murphy-in-nj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-was-just-a-tsunami-leader-of-powerful-democratic-org-says-nobody-expected-such-a-narrow-victory-for-murphy-in-nj\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Was Just A Tsunami\u2019: Leader Of Powerful Democratic Org. Says \u2018Nobody\u2019 Expected Such A Narrow Victory For Murphy In NJ"},"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\">42<\/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%2Fit-was-just-a-tsunami-leader-of-powerful-democratic-org-says-nobody-expected-such-a-narrow-victory-for-murphy-in-nj%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=985665&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>A top New Jersey Democrat, George Norcross, sounded off on the recent surge of Republican voters that disrupted the Democratic Party\u2019s grips on power in the Garden State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just a tsunami,\u201d Norcross told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/11\/08\/new-jerseys-midterm-carnage-520293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a> for a piece published Monday. \u201cNobody saw this coming. Nobody. Including me, and I like to think I\u2019m pretty astute about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norcross, a prolific fundraiser and head of numerous Democratic organizations in New Jersey, attributes the Republican wave to President Joe Biden\u2019s poor performance in the Oval Office and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/08\/joe-biden-poll-kamala-harris-november-38-28-percent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tanking poll numbers<\/a>, Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy&nbsp;won by less than <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/election\/2021\/results\/new-jersey\/governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100,000 votes<\/a> over Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli, despite the fact that polls indicated Murphy had a double-digit lead over Ciattarelli, and that Democrats had approximately one million more registered voters than Republicans, Politico reported. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/03\/new-jersey-governors-race-close-results-phil-murphy-jack-ciattarelli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Murphy Narrowly Wins Re-Election In Nail-Biter New Jersey Governor\u2019s Race)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a hitherto unknown truck driver named <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/03\/new-jersey-edward-durr-steve-sweeney-state-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ed Durr<\/a> beat out State Senate President Steve Sweeney in a surprise victory for Republicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.2660550458716\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is the New Jersey truck driver who is beating the NJ Senate President after spending only $153 on his campaign \u2013 Go Ed Durr!!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OoqysjYprb\">pic.twitter.com\/OoqysjYprb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1455924167644168198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Norcross maintains that Democrats need to change voter perceptions quickly in order to stay in power at the federal level, warning that \u201cif this mood maintains itself, that\u2019s trouble,\u201d according to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>The report also noted that when, for example, a left-wing politician such as Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigns with Democrats, many voters might feel alienated from the party, even in a blue state such as New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democratic Party today, because of a lack of prominent leaders, has largely become defined by the progressive faces in our country,\u201d Norcross said, according to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>With midterm elections one year away,&nbsp;Biden\u2019s cratering <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/biden-approval-rating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approval rating<\/a> might play a crucial role in how the Democrats fare against Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top New Jersey Democrat, George Norcross, sounded off on the recent surge of Republican voters that disrupted the Democratic Party\u2019s grips on power in the Garden State.\u201cIt was just &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"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-985665","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\/985665","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\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985665\/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=985665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}