John Solomon

Because all the things that Donald Trump and the Republicans did in 2024, they weren't doing in 2025.

They didn't get out the early vote like the operation that Lee Zeldin did with AFW and Bernie Marcus's money and got 3 million people who hadn't voted in a decade out early in the bank.

They didn't do that.

And until you change the laws, you've got to win the early vote.

The Democrats swamped that.

The Democrats got their day of vote out in urban areas like Newark, and we didn't.

That's one of the rules that we failed.

The second rule we failed is you don't run from MAGA.

And both of our major...

Both of the Republican nominees for governor ran from Donald Trump.

They tried to hide their alliances with Donald Trump.

The one guy tonight who leaned into Donald Trump and MAGA, Jason Myers, outperforms everybody else on the ticket statewide.

What does that tell you?

You don't run...

from the thing that got you there, that built the base of the movement, that energized the party.

If Donald Trump had come into New Jersey the last month, he would have beaten down Mikey Sherrill on her earlier cheating scandal with the Navy.

He would have beaten her down on so many of the other issues.

Abigail Spanberger wouldn't have had the cakewalk because we would have been talking every day about the Saudi complex where she worked right after 9-11 with a group of people

that were aligned with terrorists.

The candidates didn't bang it.