New Jersey Republican primary winner Jack Ciattarelli speaks to supporters on June 10, 2025. Thomas P. Costello/Asbury Park/USA Today Network/Imagn Imagn East Brunswick, New Jersey —

Jack Ciattarelli ticked through the states where New Jersey’s most recent Democratic governors grew up as he kicked off a rally Wednesday night.

“They brought Jon Corzine here from Illinois — that didn’t work out so well. They brought Phil Murphy from Massachusetts — this isn’t working out so well. My opponent’s not from New Jersey,” the former state assemblyman and Republican nominee for governor told hundreds of people packed into the Brunswick Grove bar.

“So I got a really simple idea,” he said. “How about we elect the Jersey guy?”

Ciattarelli, born and raised in the central part of the state,

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