The race for New Jersey’s next governor just got more heated after unredacted military records of the Democratic candidate were shared with an ally of her Republican rival.

Nicholas De Gregorio, an ally of Republican nominee for New Jersey governor Jack Ciattarelli, told CBS News that a Republican consultant in the state had asked him to investigate the background of Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill.

Sherrill graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1994, and Ciattarelli’s campaign has investigated her link to a cheating scandal at the Academy that year. Sherrill was not involved except for not telling on her fellow students, according to CBS.

“He [Chris Russell] asked me if I could help him at all, and my first stop was, let me see what I can find from FOIA, and it was really th

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