Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) leads her closest opponent in New Jersey’s Democratic gubernatorial primary by 13 percentage points in an internal poll obtained by HuffPost that highlights her strong position in the Garden State’s June primary. In the campaign’s poll, Sherrill, a former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor with a mainstream liberal voting record, has the support of 24% of likely Democratic primary voters, compared with 11% for former state Senate President Steve Sweeney, 9% each for Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, 5% for teachers union leader Sean Spiller, and 4% for Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop. There is a limit to what can be extrapolated from the survey’s findings, which Sherrill’s campaign shared with stakeholders on Wednesday afternoon. The live phone poll of 800 likely Democratic primary voters — conducted by Global Strategy Group from Nov. 20 to 24 — also found that 38% of likely primary voters were still undecided, suggesting the race is wide open. The poll’s margin of error is 3.5 percentage points under or over. But the internal poll ’s results are consistent with a survey conducted by the Laborers’ International Union of North America, which is backing Sherrill, that showed her ahead of Baraka by 12 points. A July poll conducted by a super PAC supporting Baraka found Sherrill leading the Newark mayor by a more modest six points. In the Global Strategy Group survey for Sherrill’s campaign, her support also corresponds with a net-positive favorability rating of 35 points, compared to 20 points for Gottheimer and 17 points for Baraka. That advantage is largely due to Sherrill’s higher level of name recognition, which contributed to a 41% nominal favorability rating with just 6% of those polled registering an unfavorable impression of her. In addition, the poll found that Sherrill’s numbers grew more than her rivals when respondents were given positive information about each of the candidates. The positive profile of Sherrill says her “entire life has always been about service — to our country, the Constitution, and the people of New Jersey,” while mentioning her Navy service and prosecutorial work. “Now she’s running for governor to bring new leadership to Trenton so we can reduce costs and help families get ahead, expand opportunity, and protect our rights and freedoms,” the biographical information concludes. A similar profile of Gottheimer, who many insiders see as Sherrill’s toughest rival, says he has “always put getting things done for New Jersey first, which is why he leads the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus. Josh has always focused on Jersey Values like lowering costs, lowering taxes, and protecting freedoms while getting money back from the moocher states.” To test the other candidates’ strength against a fundraising advantage Gottheimer is expected to develop (which would also enable him to communicate more), the pollsters provided half of the respondents with a second positive message about Gottheimer that emphasizes his New Jersey upbringing and specific ways in which he worked to lower costs for the state’s families. After that introduction, Sherrill’s support rose to 32%, Gottheimer’s rose to 18%, Baraka’s rose to 13%, Fulop’s and Spiller’s support rose to 6% each, and Sweeney remains the same. Finally, the poll tested negative messages against all candidates but provided one twice as long about Sherrill. In that scenario, Sherrill retained 30% of support, compared to 15% each for Gottheimer and Baraka, and 5% for Fulop. Meanwhile, Sweeney’s support grew from his original 11% to 14%, and Spiller’s support grew from his original 5% to 7%. The 2025 contest to succeed term-limited New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is sure to be closely watched following November election results that revealed a much more divided New Jersey electorate than was previously thought. Vice President Kamala Harris defeated President-elect Donald Trump in the state by less than 6 percentage points, a close margin for a reliably Democratic state. From 2020 to 2024, New Jersey moved more toward the Republican presidential nominee than any other state besides New York. Gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia have also typically been seen as a bellwether of political trends one year into a president’s new term. In 2021, Republican Glenn Youngkin took over the governorship in Virginia, and Murphy defeated a Republican challenger by just three points . The following year, however, Democrats outperformed expectations of a midterm blowout, holding onto the Senate and losing the House only narrowly. FBI Investigating Mysterious Nightly New Jersey Drone 'Cluster' National Democrats Plan $4 Million Ad Blitz For New Jersey’s Sue Altman What Tammy Murphy’s Failed Senate Campaign Says About New Jersey’s Changing PoliticsCBC resurrects live New Year's Eve broadcast special with coast-to-coast showJD Vance, Tony Abbott and ABC chair Kim Williams (Image: Private Media) The ABC Chair that Loved a Sailor ABC Radio National staff in Melbourne this week were amused by a tongue-in-cheek email doing the rounds ahead of Friday’s planned Christmas party, titled “Singers needed for Xmas Party!” The email said the chairman (ostensibly referring to ABC chair Kim Williams) had “promised to make an appearance” at the party, and was “looking [to] sing a culturally appropriate number based on Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore — he’s looking for some chorus singers to help out”. Word is that rather than Williams actually stepping up to the mic, a member of staff pretending to be the chair might belt out a tune. We asked the ABC what Williams’ chosen Christmas karaoke tune might be, but didn’t get a response. We’d love to hear your hypothetical suggestions for Kim Williams, dear reader — call us cliched, but we have him picked as partial to Paul Kelly’s 1996 classic How to Make Gravy , despite competitor streaming outlet Binge picking up the streaming rights to the recently released film adaptation. ‘Deeply repulsive’: ABC chair Kim Williams rails against Joe Rogan amid pitch for greater funding Read More Stop the TEAL There is an interesting contrast in the narratives surrounding the Coalition this coming election. One narrative, from political commentators, is that through bloody-minded obfuscation, effective culture warring, an increasingly explicit propaganda arm in the media, and an increasingly flailing prime minister, Peter Dutton has unaccountably gotten a party that was utterly wiped out in 2022 back into a competitive position ahead of 2025. The other, which is coming from the Liberal Party itself, is that there is a growing threat from the forces that actually wiped them out in the first place: teal independents knocking off Liberal “moderates”. First, we had Minister for Liminal Spaces Paul Fletcher use his one (and it turns out only) memorable public utterance to complain of a left wing conspiracy (a teal candidate) threatening his seat before, hilariously, just quitting anyway . Now, member for Berowra Julian Leeser is sending emails to his constituents expressing his worry about the same thing. “This campaign will be unlike anything Berowra has ever seen,” he darkly warns. “A teal candidate has been selected and will become a real threat.” Leeser, like every moderate remaining in Parliament, must be wondering what he can sell as his major achievements, watching as the party lurches ever further to the right under Dutton. To pick one example; he took a principled stand on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, quitting the shadow frontbench over Dutton’s conspiratorial opposition. Leeser told the Sydney Institute in October last year that the argument that the Voice was “peripheral business” was: As false as the argument in this campaign that Aboriginal people are privileged and this referendum is about special treatment and creating two different classes of Australians. What concerns me about this argument is not that it is hopelessly false. It is the total absence of empathy for our Indigenous brothers and sisters. Paul Fletcher’s grand conspiracy theory is the most interesting thing he’s ever said Read More Peter Dutton has apologised for boycotting the Stolen Generations apology, though not for his refusal to meet with Indigenous leaders at the Garma festival or his unsubstantiated claims of “rampant child abuse” in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. Just this week, Dutton promised , apropos of nothing, his government would remove the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags from his press conferences. So apart from the ongoing threat of the teal movement to his seat, one wonders how Leeser must have felt, given his stated views, begging his constituents to help him make Peter Dutton prime minister. Vance at a glance Fresh from telling Viktor Orbán’s favourite US think tank that “recent migrants from the Middle East” were behind rising antisemitism , former prime minister Tony Abbott snapped a pic with US Vice President elect JD Vance — “an honour”, in Abbott’s words. An honour to catch up with incoming Vice-President @JDVance . At a fraught time, America is blessed to have leadership of such calibre. pic.twitter.com/yjz78KemYS — Tony Abbott (@HonTonyAbbott) December 10, 2024 Abbott has long showered Vance in praise — perhaps after being turfed out of his gig on the UK board of trade , he’s looking for another foreign power to advocate for ? Fox in the hen house See if you can spot a subtle difference in Fox’s tone in discussing two deaths. Incredible pic.twitter.com/3krgpuIAtL — Majority Report (@majorityfm) December 10, 2024 Guests on Fox’s The Ingraham Angle were discussing with horror some of the veneration being lavished upon Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. “The Instagram posts from nutbag people, which I was sent in the commercial break earlier: crazy,” host Laura Ingraham said. “Like ‘he’s cute’ and people celebrating this. This is a sickness. Honestly it’s so disappointing, but I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.” She had barely drawn breath before saying the following: “Up next, the other big news out of New York, Daniel Penny. A lot of people think he’s a hero and tonight he’s not guilty.” Penny was acquitted after being charged with manslaughter after he had choked a homeless man (“menacing lunatic” in Ingraham’s phrase) to death. His trial, according to Ingraham, should never have happened . Have something to say about this article? 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Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. stock falls Monday, underperforms marketFLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — The New York Jets might be dealing with an opponent even tougher to overcome than their poor play, missed opportunities and ill-timed mistakes. Wide receiver Garrett Wilson suggested last Sunday a losing “gene” might be an explanation for after the team dropped to 3-10 with a loss at Miami. On Wednesday, Aaron Rodgers presented another perhaps more sinister reason. “I mean, it might be something like that,” the quarterback said of Wilson’s theory. “It might be some sort of curse we’ve got to snap as well.” Generations of frustrated Jets fans have half-jokingly insisted there have been negative forces at work against the franchise since Joe Namath delivered on his Super Bowl guarantee in January 1969. It remains the team’s only appearance in the NFL’s biggest game. Rodgers has been there once — and won — with Green Bay. The 41-year-old quarterback came to New York hoping to finally lead the Jets back to the Super Bowl. He even commented on how lonely the team’s only Lombardi Trophy looked during his introductory news conference 20 months ago. Instead, Rodgers’ first season in New York was cut short by a torn Achilles tendon just four snaps in, immediately resurrecting “curse” theories among jaded Jets fans. With its loss last Sunday, New York extended its playoff drought to 14 straight years, the longest active skid among the major North American sports leagues. And the team will be looking for a new general manager and coach after this season, and Rodgers’ future in New York is very much up in the air. “Whatever the case, this team, this organization is going to figure out how to get over the hump at some point,” Rodgers said. “The culture is built by the players. There’s a framework set down by the organization, by the upper ups, by the staff. But in the end, it’s the players that make it come to life. “And at some point, everybody’s going to have to figure out what that special sauce is to turn those games that should be wins into wins.” The Jets have held the lead in the fourth quarter in five games this season. They’ve lost each of them, including the past three games. New York’s inability to come away with wins in those prompted Wilson’s “gene” theory. “I’m not exactly sure what he was talking about there,” Rodgers said with a smile. “I don’t know what the proper nomenclature is for the situation where we’ve lost some leads or haven’t been able to take the lead late in the game, but that’s the way it goes sometimes. We haven’t been great in situational football. “A lot of those games come down to the plays in the first and second, even third quarter, where if you make the play the game is not in that situation. But in those situations, we haven’t been very good on offense or defense or even (special) teams.” Rodgers said “it takes a conscious effort, it takes an intentional effort” to establish a winning culture, and it includes leadership, practice habits and setting standards inside and outside of the locker room. And this year’s Jets, Rodgers said, are “on the edge” of that. “We just haven’t quite figured out how to get that special sauce worked out, mixed up,” he said. “It’s close and a lot of great guys are in the locker room. There’s some good mix of veterans and young guys, but we just haven’t quite put it all together.” ___ AP NFL:

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) leads her closest opponent in New Jersey’s Democratic gubernatorial primary by 13 percentage points in an internal poll obtained by HuffPost that highlights her strong position in the Garden State’s June primary. In the campaign’s poll, Sherrill, a former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor with a mainstream liberal voting record, has the support of 24% of likely Democratic primary voters, compared with 11% for former state Senate President Steve Sweeney, 9% each for Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, 5% for teachers union leader Sean Spiller, and 4% for Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop. There is a limit to what can be extrapolated from the survey’s findings, which Sherrill’s campaign shared with stakeholders on Wednesday afternoon. The live phone poll of 800 likely Democratic primary voters — conducted by Global Strategy Group from Nov. 20 to 24 — also found that 38% of likely primary voters were still undecided, suggesting the race is wide open. The poll’s margin of error is 3.5 percentage points under or over. But the internal poll ’s results are consistent with a survey conducted by the Laborers’ International Union of North America, which is backing Sherrill, that showed her ahead of Baraka by 12 points. A July poll conducted by a super PAC supporting Baraka found Sherrill leading the Newark mayor by a more modest six points. In the Global Strategy Group survey for Sherrill’s campaign, her support also corresponds with a net-positive favorability rating of 35 points, compared to 20 points for Gottheimer and 17 points for Baraka. That advantage is largely due to Sherrill’s higher level of name recognition, which contributed to a 41% nominal favorability rating with just 6% of those polled registering an unfavorable impression of her. In addition, the poll found that Sherrill’s numbers grew more than her rivals when respondents were given positive information about each of the candidates. The positive profile of Sherrill says her “entire life has always been about service — to our country, the Constitution, and the people of New Jersey,” while mentioning her Navy service and prosecutorial work. “Now she’s running for governor to bring new leadership to Trenton so we can reduce costs and help families get ahead, expand opportunity, and protect our rights and freedoms,” the biographical information concludes. A similar profile of Gottheimer, who many insiders see as Sherrill’s toughest rival, says he has “always put getting things done for New Jersey first, which is why he leads the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus. Josh has always focused on Jersey Values like lowering costs, lowering taxes, and protecting freedoms while getting money back from the moocher states.” To test the other candidates’ strength against a fundraising advantage Gottheimer is expected to develop (which would also enable him to communicate more), the pollsters provided half of the respondents with a second positive message about Gottheimer that emphasizes his New Jersey upbringing and specific ways in which he worked to lower costs for the state’s families. After that introduction, Sherrill’s support rose to 32%, Gottheimer’s rose to 18%, Baraka’s rose to 13%, Fulop’s and Spiller’s support rose to 6% each, and Sweeney remains the same. Finally, the poll tested negative messages against all candidates but provided one twice as long about Sherrill. In that scenario, Sherrill retained 30% of support, compared to 15% each for Gottheimer and Baraka, and 5% for Fulop. Meanwhile, Sweeney’s support grew from his original 11% to 14%, and Spiller’s support grew from his original 5% to 7%. The 2025 contest to succeed term-limited New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is sure to be closely watched following November election results that revealed a much more divided New Jersey electorate than was previously thought. Vice President Kamala Harris defeated President-elect Donald Trump in the state by less than 6 percentage points, a close margin for a reliably Democratic state. From 2020 to 2024, New Jersey moved more toward the Republican presidential nominee than any other state besides New York. Gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia have also typically been seen as a bellwether of political trends one year into a president’s new term. In 2021, Republican Glenn Youngkin took over the governorship in Virginia, and Murphy defeated a Republican challenger by just three points . The following year, however, Democrats outperformed expectations of a midterm blowout, holding onto the Senate and losing the House only narrowly. FBI Investigating Mysterious Nightly New Jersey Drone 'Cluster' National Democrats Plan $4 Million Ad Blitz For New Jersey’s Sue Altman What Tammy Murphy’s Failed Senate Campaign Says About New Jersey’s Changing Politics

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