Smart. He has no chance of winning a Senate race, and he has an enormous amount of cash on hand for a guy in a newly Likely D district.
Being a moderate in a House seat makes you a pain in the ass to leadership. Being a moderate in the Governor's race makes you a problem solver. He'll have to get past Fulop and Oliver, but Fulop has his own liabilities and Oliver's kept a low profile. Endorsed.
What are Fulop's issues, other than his wife making a million off having the right connections from baiting and switching and flipping in a intricate minuet with minority front persons one of three pot dispensaries that will be legal in Hoboken, that caused the local councilwoman in this chic NE corner or town to freak out, and actually start sobbing right on camera captured by zoom, saying it was going to drive her to toke that evening? (The pot shop will be across the street from the most expensive condo building in Hoboken in which she lives in a double unit with a forever view of Midtown Manhattan - even better than the one in my signature that is from the south end of town near our digs).
I must say JC is booming with new high rise construction in and around the drab DMV facility that I had the distinct displeasure of visiting (the only one in the state without parking, and far away from a PATH station).