NJDSC Calls on GOP Gubernatorial Candidates to Join Opposition to Texas Lawsuit Seeking to Overturn Presidential Election

Unprecedented Legal Action Threatens Democracy by Seeking to Defy the Will of the Voters

TRENTON, NJ — The New Jersey Democratic State Committee is calling on Republican Gubernatorial candidates Jack Ciattarelli, Doug Steinhardt and Hirsh Singh and Republican legislative leaders to join the State of New Jersey in opposing a baseless and dangerous lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General seeking to overturn the results of the Presidential election. Governor Phil Murphy and Attorney General Gurbir Grewal have signed on to a countersuit opposing this toxic, dangerous effort that has also been joined by the Republican governors of Maryland, Massachusetts and Vermont. While over 100 Congressional Republicans signed an amicus brief in favor of the Texas lawsuit, the state’s two Republican members of Congress, Chris Smith and Jeff Van Drew, did not join it.

“New Jersey Republican leaders have been quiet co-conspirators on President Trump’s continued attempts to steal the election by alleging nonexistent claims of voter fraud with no evidence, but this unprecedented and dangerous lawsuit should be a bridge too far for anyone but the most delusional, sycophantic Trump die hards,” said NJDSC Chairman John Currie. “It’s telling that some of the nation’s most prominent Republican governors as well as our two Republican members of Congress saw this lawsuit for the sham that it is and refused to sign on to it. Jack Ciattarelli, Doug Steinhardt, any other candidate for Governor and Republican legislative leaders need to decide if they stand with Texas and South Dakota or with the people of New Jersey. It’s time they publicly oppose this attempt to undermine our democracy.”