The mayor-elect of New Jersey is vowing to position the state as the forefront of the fight against President Donald Trump.
Mikie Sherrill, the incoming Democratic governor of New Jersey, ran her gubernatorial campaign almost entirely on how she would resist Trump with the power of the position. While she wasn’t polling like a winner, she did manage to pull off the victory and will be taking office today.
On Sunday, she once again spoke about the president, this time blaming him for the state’s affordability crisis.
“Your election really sparked the imagination of a lot of, especially Democrats, around the country. What are the big-picture aspirations you have for your governorship?” asked ABC News’ Jonathan Karl during an interview with the governor-elect.
“Liberty and prosperity. It’s what hundreds and hundreds of New Jerseyans, thousands have died for. That is what we’re protecting because, in that prosperity, we’re creating access to opportunity. And right now, the doors to opportunity are being shut down at every level. We see a president who constantly is running this tariff regime, putting more money in his own pocket, and raising costs on everybody else. So, we are fighting against that,” she responded.
“We’re fighting to open up the doors to opportunity, to lower people’s costs, to take on that affordability crisis, while at the same time, never backing away from rights and freedoms.”
She admitted that she has not spoken to Trump since her victory, though she says she’s “spoken to people in the administration about some of the key needs of New Jersey.”
“And when you do talk to him, and you saw Mayor Mamdani actually went to Washington, met with him in the Oval Office, a very surprisingly friendly meeting it seemed. What is your message to him, and what has been your message to his administration?” Karl prodded.
“My message is that the area I represent is responsible for an incredible amount of innovation, for the nation’s economy, and to continue to punish the people of New Jersey, who by the way send $70 billion more in federal taxes to the government than we receive back, to continue to attack opportunity, innovation, schools, jobs, cost of living, is madness,” she said. “I mean, this is the area where we can really grow the American economy, and instead, the president continues to focus on things like spending billions of dollars buying Greenland, and then putting tariffs up on Europe, like all of our NATO allies. Can you imagine the cost that that would be to everybody’s pocketbook?”
“And I can guarantee you, after spending a year and speaking to thousands of people across the state, that there is not one person in New Jersey that wakes up in the morning and says, ‘Gee, I hope today’s the day that the president dumps billions of dollars into buying Greenland, while my grocery store costs continue to go up.’ That’s a trade, I mean, nobody wants that trade,” the soon-to-be governor added.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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