Benny Johnson

It all started about six weeks ago when I had a rally just like this at a cafe restaurant up in Dover, Morris County.

What's the significance of that?

It's the heart of the legislative district of my opponent, Mikey Sherrill.

We had a couple hundred people there, and in walked the mayor of Dover, a Democrat who endorsed me on NJTV.

Two weeks later, it was up in Garfield, the fifth largest town in our most populated county, Bergen County.

There, the mayor endorsed me, and two minutes after he endorsed me, he said, what the hell?

I'm registering Republican.

And last night, it was one of the most prominent mayors, Democratic mayors in all of Bergen County, Nick Sacco.

We're proud to have their endorsement.

It's confirmation.

Nobody wants four more years of Phil Murphy.

Nobody wants Murphy 2.0.

No.

I got to tell you, though, the most fun I had was back in Dover.

The day we had that rally when the Democratic mayor walked in at the cafe restaurant, a woman walked in, not realizing just what the hell she walked into, a Chettirelli for governor rally.

And she came over to me kind of defiantly, and she said, I want you to know something.

Mikey Sherrill is my congresswoman, and I really like the job that she's doing representing me in Washington, D.C.

I said, ma'am, that's why I'm here.

You vote for me, I'll make sure she stays your congresswoman.

There was a pregnant pause, and then she looked up at me and said, I think I might like you.