Grace Panetta

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It’s not clear whether the Republican gubernatorial nominee in New Jersey was going to use a gendered epithet or not.

In video footage captured at a fundraiser in early October, Jack Ciattiarelli paraphrased how President Donald Trump spoke to him on the phone ahead of the contest with Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill.

“Now I’m going to tell you exactly how he puts it on the phone and I’ll let you finish the sentence, but what he always says is: ‘You gotta beat this …’” Ciatarelli said, trailing off and leaving the word Trump used unsaid as members of the crowd laughed. “We’re going to win. We’re going to win, Mr. President. We’re going to win this thing.”

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