EWING - Democrats crammed into a diner down here in Bonnie Watson Coleman country received Mikie Sherrill with all the perked-up, jolted Sunday afternoon energy of (a handful of) Jets and (prodigious) Eagles fans eager for a win - and a winner.

Watson Coleman backed Ras Baraka in the Democratic Primary - and was with the mayor when ICE slapped handcuffs on him for doing his due diligence at Delaney Hall. Now, with the primary settled in favor of the congresswoman, she's all in for Sherrill.

"First of all, I think Mikie Sherrill is smart enough and sharp enough - and as a result of her him [Jack Ciattarelli] down in that debate, she sure is strong enough [to keep MAGA at bay]," the congresswoman told InsiderNJ on the ramp of the New Ewing Diner.

Watson Coleman referred to Trump as toxic and cognitively impaired, and Republican gubernatorial nominee "Jack Ciattarelli sold his soul to Donald Trump."

"Donald Trump doesn't give you his endorsement without having your loyalty," the Congresswoman added.

The place was packed, with Mercer Democrats crowding in to back Sherrill, among them Mercer County Democratic Committee Chair Janice Mironov, state Senator Shirley Turner (D-15), Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds Jackson (D-15), Assemblyman Anthony Verrelli (D-15), Assemblywoman Tennille McCoy, Mercer County Clerk Paula Sollami Covello (pictured, below), Mercer County Commissioner Sam Frisby, Ewing Council Vice President David Schroth, Councilwoman Kathleen Wollert, and many others.

"Mikie is a great candidate who is working hard in Mercer County and all over the state and we're going to continue work hard to make sure we bring her across the line to success and a great victory on November 4th," Mironov told InsiderNJ.

Democratic State Committee Chairman LeRoy Jones rolled in, having just accompanied the Democratic nominee for governor to church (Greater Mount Zion AME) in Mercer. He grabbed a table packed with allies.

Mercer backs Democrats countywide. The county went big for Kamala Harris last year over Donald Trump: 66-32%. But more than a few people here noted the ages old divide in a battleground town like Hamilton, where behind every door lives either a public worker or an angry taxpayer - or both.

"It's a toss-up," one jittery Dem told InsiderNJ as Mikie Sherrill showed up and dove into booths of outstretched hands on the other side of the diner.

"Jack's run a good campaign," a source admitted to InsiderNJ.

"But then so has Mikie," the source added, eyeballing the incoming Democratic nominee.

SEE ASSEMBLYWOMAN MCCOY ON THE CONTEST HERE:

State Senator Shirley Turner (D-15), whose fought her own political wars with the larger party

apparatus, (just like her former slate make Watson Coleman), told InsiderNJ that Sherrill must contend statewide with insidious intraparty misogyny.

The Senator - prized for her knowledge of education, social justice, infrastructure and the environment, and American civics, has the highest respect for Sherrill.

"New Jersey does not take too kindly statewide to women and minorities - but that was then and this is now," Turner told InsiderNJ.

"Hopefully, we've gotten better," added the senator. "But not only does a woman have to work hard - she has to work twice as hard."

It's more than an ongoing, underlying theme.

Dems even here sense a very close election. People in the room describe years of establishment complacency and neglect in both parties, creating - or contributing - to what sources characterize as the electorate's national embrace of Trump and MAGA, out of desperation.

Troubling, horrifying.

Watson Coleman, however, and her allies, will not accept what they see as a cave-in to anarchism, nativism, an anti-Labor agenda in the sinister disguise of working-class attitudes, and worse, the totalitarianism of a President who talks openly about turning the military on American cities, as they take on the challenge of unifying their own complicated party, which today in this local eatery looked energized for Sherrill, as their party nominee relentlessly worked the tables.

WATCH CONGRESSWOMAN SHERRILL CAMPAIGNING WITH SENATOR TURNER AND ASSEMBLYWOMAN REYNOLDS JACKSON HERE: