{"id":995817,"date":"2021-11-10T19:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T00:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=995817"},"modified":"2021-11-10T19:29:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T00:29:01","slug":"nj-democrat-senate-president-steve-sweeney-concedes-to-republican-truck-driver-ed-durr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nj-democrat-senate-president-steve-sweeney-concedes-to-republican-truck-driver-ed-durr\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Democrat Senate President Steve Sweeney Concedes to Republican Truck Driver Ed Durr"},"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\">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%2Fnj-democrat-senate-president-steve-sweeney-concedes-to-republican-truck-driver-ed-durr%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=995817&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\">New Jersey Democrat Senate President Steve Sweeney&nbsp;conceded to Republican challenger Ed Durr on Wednesday after refusing to concede last week after apparently scrounging up 12,000 mystery ballots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI of course accept the results. I want to congratulate Mr. Durr and wish him the best of luck,\u201d Sweeney <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2021\/11\/10\/steve-sweeney-new-jersey-senate-election-results-edward-durr\/\">said<\/a>&nbsp;upon acknowledging his defeat to truck driver Durr.<\/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<div id=\"attachment_18689418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/wi\/ap\/10\/election-2021-legislature-jersey-jersey-senate-president-steve-sweeney-pauses-questions-of.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18689418 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/election-2021-legislature-jersey-jersey-senate-president-steve-sweeney-pauses-questions-of-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney pauses to take questions from members of the media during a news conference in Trenton, N.J., Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. (AP Photo\/Matt Rourke)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yet Sweeney blamed the red wave on November 2 for his loss by 2,000 votes. \u201cIt was a red wave,\u201d he said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/07\/steve-sweeney-wont-concede-to-truck-driver-claims-12000-found-ballots\/\">ignoring<\/a> the \u201cbare-bones, stealth\u201d campaign Durr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/03\/conservative-truck-driver-edward-durr-mounts-surprise-challenge-new-jersey-state-senate-president-2021\/\">waged<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"15.18200408998\">\n<p>At one point, Durr \u2014 a complete unknown in politics, who became involved when he was told it was impossible to obtain a concealed carry firearms permit \u2014 appeared to overtake Sweeney, forcing a local newspaper to&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/legislature\/sweeney-burzichelli-taliaferro-win-in-the-3rd-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">retract<\/a>&nbsp;its call for Sweeney.<\/p>\n<p>Shocked political observers noted that Durr had no campaign website, other than a&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ED4NJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook page<\/a>, and appeared to have spent next to nothing in his political race \u2014 after opponents&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2017\/10\/njeas-battle-with-sweeney-setting-spending-records-in-nj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">spent<\/a>&nbsp;millions in an attempt to unseat Sweeney in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Durr has campaigned multiple times for office in New Jersey. His efforts paid off when Republicans swept multiple local and state races on November 2.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking by phone after the election, Durr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/03\/exclusive-truck-driver-edward-durr-how-i-took-out-new-jerseys-top-democratic-boss\/\">told<\/a> Breitbart News the election was about family. \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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen somebody\u2019s messing with your family, you\u2019ll do anything,\u201d he explained. \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<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Democrat Senate President Steve Sweeney\u00a0conceded to Republican challenger Ed Durr on Wednesday after refusing to concede last week after apparently scrounging up 12,000 mystery ballots. \u201cI of course &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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-995817","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\/995817","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995817\/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=995817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}