NJ Gov Race Neck-and-Neck, US Nuclear Testing Resumes, Trump Meets Xi Jinping: AM Update 10/31
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Happy Halloween, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly, and it's Friday, October 31st, 2025. This is your AM Update.
I'm just going with my gut feel, which is this is a close race.
Election night is right around the corner, and the race for New Jersey governor is neck and neck. The U.S. resumes nuclear testing in response to recent Russian nuclear trials.
Well, I guess on the scale of from zero to 10, with 10 being the best, I would say the meeting was at 12.
President Trump returns from a marathon tour through Asia, culminating in significant progress on a new trade agreement with China. And it's that time of year again. The clock's set to fall back this weekend and regain a glorious hour of sleep. Is it worth it? All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update. Thank you so much for joining us. Because of that commitment, Walmart invested $350 billion in U.S. manufacturing, helping American companies like Fisher & Wieser Specialty Foods, a local Texas business, expand their operations in Fredericksburg, Texas, hire more people as well, and bring their Texas-grown peach jam to a national market. Their story is just one example of how Walmart's U.S.
manufacturing investment is supporting over 750,000 American jobs. Businesses across the country are empowered to sell more, hire more, and help their communities grow. From farms to factories to final shopping carts, learn how Walmart is fueling the future of U.S. manufacturing at walmart.com slash americaatwork. With Election Day just around the corner, New Jersey's governor race coming down to the wire. Republican candidate Jack Ciatarelli and Democrat candidate Mikey Sherrill in a statistical tie, according to the latest poll by Emerson College. Sherrill leading Ciatarelli by 1.49 to 48 percent among likely voters. Three more polls released on Thursday showing wider margins, Sherrill leading 46 to 42, according to Suffolk University.
Fox News has Sherrill with 52, Ciatarelli with 45% among likely voters. Quinnipiac has Sherrill up by eight points, 51 to 43, in a matchup deciding whether the Garden State stays blue or flips red. With early voting underway, we spoke to New Jersey Globe editor David Wildstein about the state of the race and the most recent polls.
You know, at this point, I'm not really paying that much attention to polling because these numbers are all over the place and we're not getting a really good read or at least an adequate read about where they projected electorate will be. At this point, there's just so much data out there that I'm just going with my my gut feel, which is that this is a close race.
With early voting beginning on Saturday, Wildstein notes a shift in voting behavior.
What we're seeing is Republicans becoming increasingly more comfortable with voting in advance of Election Day. Republicans are now returning vote-by-mail ballots at roughly the same pace as Democrats. I haven't seen that before. What we saw in 2024 is Republicans love in-person early voting, and those numbers are good. Democrats are catching up there. So the advantage still belongs to the Democrats because they are are more accustomed to voting by mail. So so 60 plus percent of all the vote by mail ballots that have been sent out have been sent to Democrats. It's almost a three to one advantage. Republicans have a long time to get a long way to go before they catch up here.
The environment and energy policies taking center stage in New Jersey. Cittarelli telling The Megyn Kelly Show on Thursday he would roll back the plastic bag ban. Thank God. Try going to Bed Bath & Beyond and getting out to your car and then back from your car into your home with all that stuff and no bag. It's impossible. At least at the grocery store, they sell the bags that you can buy, but they don't sell them at the big home goods store. I speak from experience. Trigger. Also, he says he would block the horrible offshore wind projects that almost nobody likes or wants, characterizing his opponent as too liberal on environmental matters.
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