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The first event kicks off August 30th in Cleveland, featuring matchups with some of the best wrestlers on the planet. You've never seen wrestling like this. Learn more. At RealAmericanFreestyle.com. Joining us now is Jack Chitterelli, running for governor of New Jersey and storming from behind very strongly.
Jack, first off, your reaction, I know you're focused on your debate, and I don't blame you and all the issues of New Jersey. That's got to be, but it's hard not to notice something historic happening like what's happening in the Middle East, isn't it? Uh this is a And uh And we tip our cap to the President for taking a leadership role here. Um piece is long overdue. but most importantly, the release of the hostages.
Absolutely. And hopefully, they're going to be back soon. Your debate last night, how do you think it went? I thought it went very Very well in showing pointing out the differences between the two candidates. Once again, we got generalities, platitudes, and lies from my opponent.
And we called her out on it each and every time. But I thought you saw a real act of desperation. when she lied about my private sector career. and accusing me of having killed personally. 10,000 people.
Hmm. Talk about a dep desperate tactic by a desperate candidate. In what respect, I must have missed that. She was making mention of the fact that, as a medical publisher, I was a partner of some of the leading academic. medical centers in the country.
and we did continued medical education programs for doctors. And she's claiming because some of those dealt with pain management as a topic that I was the reason for the opioid epidemic across New Jersey. And that and so I personally responsible for the loss of 10,000 lives. Here is Mikey Sherrill talking about you and putting down people who work in public service, Cup 43. You know, my opponent denigrates public service at every turn.
He said law enforcement shouldn't get the pay they get because there's a lot more dangerous jobs out there where people make less. He's voted against our pension system in the past. Again and again, he puts down people who serve the public. I'm proud of my service at the U.S. Attorney's Office.
I'm proud of my service in the U.S. military. And I'm proud of people who serve. And as governor, I'm going to make sure I have their backs. No, I pointed out the fact that this is somebody who's endorsed Mundami, and Mundami's endorsed her.
you couldn't have a more anti-police Potential mayor of New York City than Mondami. This is somebody who voted to get rid of qualified immunity for local police. Which is the bedrock of the protection that enables them to do the job that they do, and also that I'm the only one endorsed by police. Unions across the state. because she's not pro police and because she's talked about reappointing our current re Attorney General, who's been the most anti-police attorney general in our state's history.
Has she ever answered the question? Of why she was kicked out of car, why she was not allowed to walk. Uh her after graduation. She's given us an explanation, but I will tell you it's a lie. What she has said is the reason.
Why she was punished at the Naval Academy, not being allowed to walk under graduation, not having her name listed in the commencement exercise program, is. Because she refused to turn in classmates. We're cheating. That's not true. And so we believe she either cheated herself or she she lied to the investigators.
All she has to do is approve the release. Of her disciplinary records to come clean and be transparent with the people of New Jersey as to why she was punished at the Naval Academy. You know, Brian, she's built her entire political career upon this Naval Academy experience and serving in the military. We Military service as I do my Army Captain Son. But she needs to come clean with the state of New Jersey as to why she was severely punished at the Naval Academy.
So you're saying you don't know, you don't know if she's telling the truth or not because her records aren't out there. You don't know if it's worse or. Than the cheating scandal, right? You just know that she wasn't allowed to walk and she was involved somehow, and she will not release the details. Right, and if what she is saying is true, then why would you hesitate in releasing your disciplinary records?
The disciplinary records would then confirm what it is that she's saying. She wouldn't turn in her classmates. The the honor code at West Point says this. You shall not cheat, you shall not lie, and you will not tolerate those who do. That's not the honor code at the Naval Academy.
You don't necessarily get punished. for not turning in a classmate. All it says is you will not lie. And so we believe that she's not telling the truth as to why she was severely punished.
So here she is talking about the number one issue. For people of New Jersey, and that is energy costs, utility costs, cut 44. I constantly hear about this from voters.
So that's why on day one I'm declaring a state of emergency on energy prices, freezing rate hikes. I'm going to take on the PBMs. Those are those middlemen that can drive up drug prices up to 10 times, driving down your health care costs. And I'm going to ensure that I'm taking on those landlords that are colluding to drive up your rental prices.
So housing, health care, utility costs, immediately get to work driving down your costs. And quite frankly, we know my opponent won't do it because his number one donor is somebody who's actually under investigation for driving up those rental costs.
So I'm going to continue to fight for New Jersey's, and my opponent just won't. Do those sound like solid programs? Uh they are not. Factor energy plan. There are seventy-seven incumbent Democratic legislators in New Jersey.
fifty two which are on the ballot this year, not one has embraced. Her illegitimate and not feasible energy plan to lower electricity costs. Even the governor, a member of her own party, was on TV and said. I don't think you can do that. Listen, it's one lie after another.
He doesn't understand New Jersey. The way to get our electric rates down is. To pull out a Reggie. The regional greenhouse gas initiative is a carbon tax policy that has failed New Jerseans. I could save $300 million to $500 million a year for homeowners.
tenants and businesses by pulling out of Reggie. and all of our other proposals. Are really, really lit razor. And it's all about generalities and platitudes there to the Congresswoman.
So this morning we had a voter panel that watched your debate, and your debate was up against the Phillies game for Southern New Jersey, big Phillies fans there, and the Yankee game.
So it's not easy.
So a lot of people are going to be watching the clips back. We had a voter panel that watched the debate. They came in, and here's what they said. after watching the debate. Did it change any of your minds?
If it did change your mind watching the debate. Raise your hand.
So it had no impact. No right.
So they had some had nice things to say.
Some thought that Mikey Sherrow was better. But did you need to score a knockout? Do you think you had a knockout last night and we just picked three panelists that didn't reflect that? Or do you feel as though there's enough time to close the gap further? Brian, there are four polls that have this as a dead heat, if not me, with a one point lead.
There are a couple polls that have me down by five to seven. points Those are the same polls that had Kamala Harris winning New Jersey last year by twenty plus. She only won by six. Those are the same polls that had me down by 12 points with two weeks to go last time. We lost by only three points.
The fact that I have the endorsements of prominent Democratic elected officials around the state. Says that all the energy is on our side, the momentum is on our side. I'm telling you, in comparing this to twenty one, when I thought we were going to win, this time I know we're going to win. The energy across the state has been electric. But Jack, the one thing you say, for example, I don't care what you think of Trump, Trump's not going to win in California and he's not going to win in New Jersey.
So Trump says he's got my full endorsement. And you were asked, where are you different? And you're different uh when it comes to windmills, right? Different from my opponent or different from Trump? Trump.
Listen, I'm very grateful of the fact he's put a temporary halt on wind farms off the Jersey shore. I'm concerned that he's approved the wind farm off of Entity. Empire wind farm. off of Long Island. And so we hope that doesn't lead to him changing his mind on the temporary halt off the Jersey Shore.
We do not want those wind farms. We think it ruins the ecology of our ocean, which is critically important to recreational and commercial fishing. Uh very significant component of our state economy. Not to mention, it's just not a good source of energy. It's not reliable and it's very, very expensive.
There are other ways that produce energy here in the state of New Jersey. And so, but he has been very good to New Jersey in other ways. He's beaten up on the New York Democrats over congestion pricing, but most of all, the big, beautiful bill. I mean, this thing raises the property tax deduction on your federal tax return to forty thousand dollars. That's critically important in New Jersey as we pay the highest property tax in the nation.
It doubles the child care tax credit for families with young children. It doesn't tax tips, overtime and Social Security, and it provides a magnificent tax credit for those who send their kids to private school. And my opponent voted no. All those things. Add up to anywhere to a $4,000 to $5,000 savings for the average middle-class family.
Going into the election without Trump's endorsement last time, where do the polls have you?
Well, the polls at the end, our polls had it as a dead heat. Yeah. were the ones that came out of our universities, which usually don't do a very good job of investing the necessary money to get the right kind of sample size. Brian, I'm telling you we're right where we need to be with regard to the polls. And let's not forget one thing.
Trump lost New Jersey in twenty twenty by sixteen points. I lost twelve months later by three. I outperformed Glenn Young in Virginia that year.
Okay. Four years later, Trump loses New Jersey by six points. He improved by over ten points. That was the single largest improvement of the fifty states Now no, he didn't win New Jersey. Guess what?
Ten points? Is the equivalent of about 300,000 people that feel differently about Donald Trump today than they did back in 2020. And right now, how many Democratic mayors have endorsed you? We've gotten the endorsement of four different Democratic mayors. A couple of former mayors.
And also, county commissioners across the state. And I will tell you, there's a whole lot of others that have just told me very privately. Jack, we're with you, and we need a change. They realize she's just a continuation. Of Phil Murphy's failed policies, Murphy 2.0.
And Murphy, she said that you would give Murphy a B and how he's done over these eight years. What about you? Oh my goodness, Brian, it's an F. It's been a failure across the board. The affordability crisis because of property taxes and When monthly electricity bills is all on him, the public safety crisis.
The spike in nonviolent crime, because we've handcuffed our police, we're going to let them do their job. The public education crisis, Yeah. school curriculum. We've slipped from two to twelve on the national report card. The overdevelopment crisis in our suburban communities.
because of all this social engineering with this high density housing. taking garden right out of the garden state. It's been failure after failure after failure. signature issue cannabis. Even the role out of that has been a total failure.
Ask the minority communities all across the state that he told them it was all about social justice. I mean, the whole thing's just been an enormous failure. And people of New Jersey deserve better. I don't think Mikey Sherrill is one of the I think she's one of the weakest candidates that I have seen. And they thought she was just going to roll to a victory.
And as some I read in Axios a couple of days ago, a Democratic strategist says basically her message is: isn't Trump really bad? And haven't they learned that that's not going to fly anymore? And soon it's not going to not even make any sense. Yeah. And her whole campaign is based on a stack of lies about me, disdain for Donald Trump.
and she can fly a helicopter. Is that what's going to fix New Jersey? Not yet. Come on. I don't think so.
She's and listen, she's not even from New Jersey. And you have generations that have had businesses there, right? We have. The Cheddarillis have been here for one hundred years, three generations of us. Have all been business owners, job creators, and have all achieved our American dream right here in New Jersey.
And unlike my opponent, I don't need a job. Unlike my opponent, I don't want to be senator. I don't want to be vice president. I don't want to be president. Just want to fix the state on love.
All right. Jack Chitterellians, Mikey Sherrill in the back stretch after their final debate last night. Jack, best of luck. Brian, thank you. It's Will Tain Country.
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