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Why New Jersey major turnout is a superb signal for Democrats

Editorial Board Published June 19, 2025
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Final week, Rep. Mikie Sherrill gained New Jersey’s hotly contested Democratic gubernatorial major with 34% of the vote in a six-way race. New Jersey is considered one of simply two states holding off-year governor’s races in 2025, the opposite being Virginia.

Sherrill is now the frontrunner heading into November’s election. Her Republican opponent, former state Rep. Jack Ciattarelli got here shockingly near profitable 4 years in the past. However like Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, he benefited from Donald Trump not being on the poll or in workplace. This time round, Trump is all in, loudly endorsing Ciattarelli—a lot to Sherrill’s delight, little doubt.

Sherrill instantly pointed to the sky-high Democratic turnout as each the important thing to her win and a preview of November. 


Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill, left, and former state Rep. Jack Ciattarelli will match off in New Jersey’s gubernatorial election in November.

“We had almost 800,000 people voting in this primary. That’s unheard of,” she instructed the Washington Publish. “It shows you the passion people have, shows you what’s coming in November here.”

And that’s  underselling it. Democratic turnout now stands at 814,669, a genuinely extraordinary quantity. The closest comparability is from 2017, which noticed 503,682 votes. In 2021, it was simply 382,984 (an unopposed major), and solely 195,171 in 2013.

Republicans additionally hit a document of 459,574 votes, up from 339,033 in 2021 and the mid-200,000s in 2013 and 2017. However even with this increase, they nonetheless lag far behind Democrats’ surge.

This turnout is very encouraging given New Jersey’s sharp rightward shift within the 2024 presidential election. Vice President Kamala Harris carried the state simply 52-46, in comparison with President Joe Biden’s 57-41 win in 2020—a web 10-point swing to Republicans, largely pushed by weak Democratic turnout. That’s clearly been fastened.

Holding New Jersey’s governorship—and reclaiming Virginia’s—issues. However what’s actually thrilling is what this says in regards to the 2026 midterms.

Typical knowledge says that the social gathering within the White Home will get shellacked within the midterms—particularly with an unpopular president. However Biden and Democrats already broke that rule in 2022. Nothing’s carved in stone.

In the meantime, Republicans received obliterated in Trump’s first time period through the 2018 midterms, when Democrats flipped 41 Home seats and seven governor seats. His second time period is off to a fair worse begin, and with these early indicators of hyper-engaged Democrats, the vibes are good.

Certain, 2026 remains to be a great distance off. But when these numbers spook sufficient Republicans in swing districts, Democrats would possibly be capable of grind this narrowly divided Congress to a halt. 

That alone is price celebrating.

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