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New Jersey Democrat Flips To GOP, Credits Trump

The mayor of Bergen County, New Jersey's fifth-largest municipality, formally switched parties on Thursday, announcing his support 
for Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli.

Garfield Mayor Everett E. Garnto Jr. said he felt compelled to leave the Democratic Party, declaring that "the state is broken." 
His announcement came during a rally at a Garfield gymnasium, where several hundred people gathered to hear from both Garnto and 
Ciattarelli.

"For the last seven and a half years, Phil Murphy's policies have left us with sky-high taxes, soaring electric bills, and less 
safe communities," Garnto said. "New Jerseyans deserve better. Jack Ciattarelli is ready to turn this state around."

Garnto noted that he supported Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. A former school board member, he also spent twelve 
years as president of the Garfield Police Benevolent Association Local 46.

Trump won Garfield by about nine points in 2024, while Murphy narrowly carried the town by three points in the 2021 gubernatorial 
race.

Ciattarelli, a former assemblyman, will face U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) in the November general election. He also 
highlighted the backing of Dover Mayor James P. Dodd, a Democrat, arguing that such endorsements reflect growing frustration among 
moderate Democrats with state party leaders.

A new Emerson College survey shows that Republican former Rep. Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Rep. Mikie Sherrill are tied in the 
contest for governor of New Jersey in 2025, with each getting 43% of the vote and 11% of voters still not sure.

Emerson College conducted a poll of 935 likely voters on September 22 and 23, revealing a close contest between Jack Ciattarelli 
(R-NJ) and Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) for the position of governor of New Jersey.

The poll suggests that both candidates have 43% of the vote, with 3% backing another choice and 11% not sure.

The results indicate that the race is still tight, even though Election Day is only months away.

President Donald Trump, who has endorsed Ciattarelli, amplified the survey on Truth Social, posting both the poll results and a 
message praising Ciattarelli as "tough on crime and cutting taxes."

Trump wrote that Ciattarelli "will be a GREAT Governor" and criticized Sherrill for supporting "Open Borders (again!), men playing 
in Women's Sports, Transgender for everyone, and all of the things that almost DESTROYED America," adding that she is "a big 
supporter of the perhaps future Communist Mayor of New York City."

The Emerson results come after several events that have changed the contest for governor. Earlier this month, Ciattarelli and 
Sherrill were fighting over taxation and fiscal policy in a discussion.

Ciattarelli promised not to raise the sales tax and stressed cutting income and property taxes. He also accused Sherrill of not 
disclosing stock dealings while she was in Congress.

He said that Sherrill broke disclosure laws on defense and technology equities, citing stories from the New York Times and Business 
Insider.

Sherrill defended her record and promised to 'drive down your cost at every level."

Former Democratic Assemblyman Jamel Holley also backed Ciattarelli earlier, calling his campaign "the right way forward."

Ciattarelli has gained even more support thanks to the backing of organized labor. The International Union of Operating Engineers 
Local 825, which has more than 7,000 members, backed him in June. They said they liked that he was open to natural gas projects and 
didn't like that Sherrill was focused on solar energy.

Greg Lalevee, the head of the union, said that Ciattarelli "understands New Jersey" and the problems with its cost of living.

The race has also brought up foreign policy.

This isn't the first poll to show how competitive the race is. A poll by National Research Inc. in June showed Sherrill ahead by 
three points, 45% to 42%.

The survey also found that many people were unhappy with the way things were going in the state.

Fifty-four percent of voters said New Jersey was on the wrong track, and this group strongly supported Ciattarelli.

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a 
punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in 
reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."