Who can revitalize the NJ GOP?

[Suburbia]

Who?

Jack Ciattarelli? Chris Brown?

[Roll Roons]

Maybe Jon Bramnick? Last year's Assembly results were better than anyone expected, considering they held all of their seats and picked up two against all odds. Might as well look to the guy who made it happen.

[MT Treasurer]

Phil Murphy.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Phil Murphy.

The NJ GOP party is fairly moderate compared to the rest of the country, the GOP had Chris Christie whom helped Obama get reelected. There is no force like that in the GOP anymore. Pataki's, Ridge and Chris Christie's are gone

[Continential]

Maybe Jon Bramnick? Last year's Assembly results were better than anyone expected, considering they held all of their seats and picked up two against all odds. Might as well look to the guy who made it happen.

The Democrats were maxed-out in the Assembly.

[Suburbia]

Bramnick is too boring.

Chris Brown? Vince Polistina?

[smoltchanov]

Bramnick is too boring.

Chris Brown? Vince Polistina?

Brown, but only in post-Trump America. He is too moderate and too clever for present day GOP..

[Fuzzy Bear]

The history of NJ's Republicans in my lifetime is an example of how nothing mobilizes Republicans like a tax issue.  Democrat Brendan Byrne was on the ropes in 1977 over initiating an income tax, and won reelection only because challenger Raymond Bateman was found to have cast key votes allowing the income tax to move forward.  Democrat Jim Florio lost to Christie Todd Whitman in 1993 over a tax issue.  Chris Christie defeated Jon Corzine in part over tax issues.

If the tax burden issue reaches critical mass in NJ, the GOP will have a comeback there.

[Suburbia]

Brian Bergen?

I don't think Kean and Bramnick can cut it.

Steve Oroho?

https://www.votebergen.com/

Either Bergen, Oroho, Peters or Brown can be the first president from NJ since Wilson one day.

Is it the Wilson curse?

[Roll Roons]

Brian Bergen?

https://www.votebergen.com/

He'd actually be a good candidate for NJ-11 in 2022 or 2024.

[Suburbia]

Brian Bergen?

https://www.votebergen.com/

He'd actually be a good candidate for NJ-11 in 2022 or 2024.

Do you see him being governor or president?

[UkrainianRepublican]

Nobody. NJ GOP is dead and irrelevant

[Suburbia]

Nobody. NJ GOP is dead and irrelevant

How?

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

Law and order
Statues burning
Dems are sjws

Aim those messages at
Angry WWC men in Big Cities
The Romney-Clinton suburbanite are not going to return to the NJ gop

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Law and order
Statues burning
Dems are sjws

Aim those messages at
Angry WWC men in Big Cities
The Romney-Clinton suburbanite are not going to return to the NJ gop

Don't urban WWC vote more Democratic than suburban types? The culture war stuff has much more pull over the urban-rural divide and I would argue that if the national strategy continues with that, the NJ GOP has a better path to relevance by figuring out how to win over exurbs and all but the innermost of suburbs.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

Phil Murphy.

Bob Menendez

[Suburbia]

Phil Murphy.

Bob Menendez

NJ GOP had a chance to defeat Menendez in 2006 and 2018. If not then, when?

[RINO Tom]

Law and order
Statues burning
Dems are sjws

Aim those messages at
Angry WWC men in Big Cities
The Romney-Clinton suburbanite are not going to return to the NJ gop

I think you’d be my caricature of a hack ... congrats, lol.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Phil Murphy.

Bob Menendez

NJ GOP had a chance to defeat Menendez in 2006 and 2018. If not then, when?

In a Republican wave year with another ongoing trial, perhaps? They'd still need a strong candidate and it'd be a long haul, but their chances could be reasonable.

[S019]

Brian Bergen?

https://www.votebergen.com/

He'd actually be a good candidate for NJ-11 in 2022 or 2024.

NJ-11 is not flipping, as long as Sherrill is the incumbent, she's quite popular here. Anyways, the easiest answer here is Democratic infighting, for instance Murphy fighting with the legislature, etc., which could weaken him in 2021. Some random Republican could take advantage of that, but the infighting matters far more than the random Republican.

[Roll Roons]

Brian Bergen?

https://www.votebergen.com/

He'd actually be a good candidate for NJ-11 in 2022 or 2024.

NJ-11 is not flipping, as long as Sherrill is the incumbent, she's quite popular here. Anyways, the easiest answer here is Democratic infighting, for instance Murphy fighting with the legislature, etc., which could weaken him in 2021. Some random Republican could take advantage of that, but the infighting matters far more than the random Republican.

Pete Sessions went from not having a Democratic opponent in 2016 to losing his seat by nearly 7 points in 2018. Sherrill may be popular now, but if Trump loses this fall, let's see what happens when he's out of the picture. The nice thing about Jersey's off-year elections is that 2021 can be an early indicator of where the national political mood is headed, as they were in 2017 and 2009.

Also about the Murphy infighting, you're right, but the identity of the Republican candidate does matter to some extent. Jon Bramnick would be much more likely to pull off an upset than Scott Garrett.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

Law and order
Statues burning
Dems are sjws

Aim those messages at
Angry WWC men in Big Cities
The Romney-Clinton suburbanite are not going to return to the NJ gop

I think you’d be my caricature of a hack ... congrats, lol.

RINO Tom, let's be real here. By 2030, who knows what "woke" stuff the dems will come up with. I mean, just the other day, Harris/Pressley co sponsored a bill that gives relief to struggling businesses....but 3/4 of that would go to minority owned businesses. That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about. You can't convince me there won't be a rebellion of some sort

[Pyro]

The hero we need.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Law and order
Statues burning
Dems are sjws

Aim those messages at
Angry WWC men in Big Cities
The Romney-Clinton suburbanite are not going to return to the NJ gop

I think you’d be my caricature of a hack ... congrats, lol.

RINO Tom, let's be real here. By 2030, who knows what "woke" stuff the dems will come up with. I mean, just the other day, Harris/Pressley co sponsored a bill that gives relief to struggling businesses....but 3/4 of that would go to minority owned businesses. That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about. You can't convince me there won't be a rebellion of some sort

Extrapolating anything out to 2030 is foolish enough and the NJ GOP will be seeking to revive themselves to some extent long before that point.

[Ferguson97]

The ghost of Thomas Kean Sr