New Jerseys Jack Ciattarelli getting grass roots push from Citizens Alliance to clinch governors race
In the Garden State, they’re knocking wood in droves.And hoping to deliver New Jersey from blue, flip it red and elect Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli.Citizens Alliance initiative NJ Chase has mobilized 105 workers to knock on doors all over New Jersey since August 4.As of Monday morning, they’ve hit 408,835 doors and are projected to reach at least 500,000 by Election Day.The initiative is a spinoff of PA Chase which along with Scott Pressler’s Early Vote Action, helped methodically flip the Keystone state red for President Trump in 2024.
Pressler has also seemingly been everywhere Ciattarelli is, rallying voters to come out for the GOP.“We’re in a very competitive spot,” Citizens Alliance CEO Cliff Maloney told of the neck-and-neck race between Ciattarelli and Dem candidate Mikie Sherrill.“It’s where we wanted to be.”A poll by co/efficient released Monday showed Sherrill with 48 percent of the potential vote compared to 47 percent for Ciattarelli, with five percent still undecided – making it too close for comfort for either candidate.Citizens Alliance targets registered Republicans, who are unlikely to vote, to request mail-in ballots and ensure they actually send them in before election day.
They’re essentially the good kind of nags.“I did not create this strategy.I am just replicating what Joe Biden did in Pennsylvania in 2020… We’re running a reminder campaign.
It’s placing a 20-year-old at their door and saying, ‘Will you promise and commit to voting today?’ We’re finally competing on the right.”Otherwise, there’s a significant amount of Republican votes wasted and left on the floor.In Pennsylvania in 2020, there were 140,000 Republicans who never sent their ballots back.“In 2024, we got that number [down] to 62,000,” said Maloney, adding that in Jersey, GOP voters had 183,908 mail requests.
Currently only 83,000 are outstanding.“We’ve heard thousands and thousands of times [from residents] that our do...