NJ-centric Bramnick Prepared for the New 2025 Trump-Happy Terrain

One of the most eloquent and sustained anti-Donald Trump voices in either party, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jon Bramnick arguably faces a more difficult path to the 2025 governorship on the heels of Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris this past Tuesday.

Bramnick doesn’t see it that way. While his rivals will fight one another to prove their closeness to the sitting Republican president, the veteran state senator from Westfield sees a way to outpace his grappling foes. While many Republicans will try to use Harris’ mere five to six-point margin of victory to prove the swing state dynamics of a state that more Trump love can pull over the finish line, Bramnick interprets each election as an organism unto itself. Harris was a bad candidate, in his judgment, proved in part by the fact that in this election she received 20 million fewer votes nationwide than Biden in 2020. Even with Democrats here mailing it in, Trump still lost New Jersey. People voted against Harris, not for Trump, in the senator’s judgment. In office, the president will tack right on issues related to immigration deportation in a way that will probably wake NJ Democrats up again and likely energize them.

Committed to staying on course with his gubernatorial run, Bramnick sees 35% of the Republican electorate worshipping Trump, voters whom Ciattarelli and Spadea will aggressively court, even as Bramnick – who wouldn’t take Trump’s endorsement even if offered – maintains an under the radar presence and looks for opportunities to coalesce Reagan, Bush, Eisenhower Republicans.

He and his rivals will be pretty similar on issues concerning crime, taxes, and overdevelopment. The difference, Bramnick maintains, is the other two men can’t win a general election, especially with Trump in right-wing overdrive. On the trail, Bramnick continues to needle his opponents, Ciattarelli, Spadea, and over-the-road trucker Ed Durr, as multiple loss candidates. Trump emboldening them will simply short-circuit their general election chances.

Fighting for the same lane, Ciattarelli and Spadea will try to ignore Bramnick, particularly now, with Trump as the president-elect, and beyond. Prodded, they might offer the opinion that Trump wouldn’t even take Bramnick’s phone calls. Bramnick will counter that they won’t be in a position to make those calls as governor because they can’t win, and that Trump would probably be more inclined to talk to Bramnick than a fire-breathing Dem.

 

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7 responses to “NJ-centric Bramnick Prepared for the New 2025 Trump-Happy Terrain”

  1. After all of the nasty, horrible, and repugnant things Bramnick continually said about Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters, he’s DELUSIONAL if he thinks he’ll be the GOP governor nominee in 2025!

  2. In 2018 The Latino Action Network filed a lawsuit against the state of New Jersey, alleging school segregation. This was a “ sucker punch to the states’ progressive reputation.” The NAACP and The Greater United Methodist Church of New Jersey joined the lawsuit. Presently, it is in mediation. New Jersey’s home rule contributes to the segregation. Senate Bramnick authored an amendment to the New Jersey Constitution to protect home rule .
    New Jersey likes to celebrates its remarkable diversity but the school system is the sixth most segregated in the nation.
    The next Governor of New Jersey will need to address this issue and offer some meaningful solutions . The working class , which include the Latino community do not want to be left behind. Education is the civil rights issue of our time. The opportunity to access a good education is true civil justice .

  3. I would vote for a democrat before i voted for Jon “LOSER” Bramnick and I am die hard trump supporter. I would never support this clown in any fashion

  4. Bramnick is nothing more than RINO Democrat-Lite. He trashed Trump incessantly for the past 8 years. Bramnick is nothing more than a bad comedian with a law license. Time to send him packing. He’s offered nothing to NJ taxpayers–like cut TAXES by 50% or more!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. Judging by the echo chamber’s responses here, the cult has spoken.

    The fact that in order to get elected governor Bramnick would, per force, have to reach out to New Jersey independent and Democratic voters is completely lost on them.

    The cult really believes that the MAGA base elected DJT and that the MAGA base can elect the next governor of New Jersey.

  6. Sam’s Dad: Get your head out of your nether regions. The MAGA base now includes more Democrats, Blacks and Hispanics, along with suburban women, than ever before–and it’s going to continue to grow. That’s what won the election for Trump and the Republican down ballot.

  7. Seems as though this man thinks he is God’s gift to the residents of NJ. Nothing is further from the truth as he has done squat while he hangs out in Trenton. He has turned his back on those who have supported hm for years. He is more than a RINO and should change parties.

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