NJ-SEN 2024: Draggin' The Line (3/24: Murphy OUT)

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

If Menendez did step down, who would Murphy appoint?

Since Menendez is NJ’s first Latino Senator, I’d imagine there’s gonna be a lot of pressure on Murphy to appoint a Latino to his seat.

Albio Sires? Though he left to go back to be mayor of west NY.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

https://twitter.com/ryanobles/status/1706787159280111697?t=VyP0OmbAliCE0eWl1zOEC...

The elevator closing is hilarious timing.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Off topic, but are there any Republican parties that are run by "machine" politics?

There’s plenty of pastors around where I lived that basically directed their churchgoers to vote a certain way, but that’s a bit of an informal machine, since it wasn’t coordinated with the party or each other.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Looking forward to Senator Kim! Even if it did cost us what could have been an interesting primary. We'll get an interesting gubernatorial primary next year at least.

I have a bit of a hot-take though: Tammy Murphy dropping out now looks worse for her than if she were to stay in and risk losing to Kim. Her calling it quits demonstrates that she was always reliant on machine politics...which she was, but if she wants to run for some other office in the future, it makes perceptions of her even worse.

I guess her hope is that the line remains, or at least the people running the machines now and who may still have big political sway will back her for something in the future

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

I thought this line thing couldn't be that big of a deal until I actually saw a NJ primary ballot. Blegh.



Good for Kim and congratulations on his Senate seat.

What in the goddamn is this

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

https://twitter.com/traceytully/status/1773876247375888389https://twitter.com/wildstein/status/1773875950599406068https://twitter.com/NickTagliaferro/status/1773881978737115179

it's the desperate thrashing of a machine in death throes.