Donald Trump professed his love for New Jersey on a Nov. 3 teleconference with supporters of Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican nominee for governor.

“I’m in the state all of the time," the president said. “I love the state and we got to make it really great again.”

But Tuesday, New Jersey's voters didn’t return the love. The message was clear: Please, get out.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill coasted to a commanding victory fueled, in large part, by drumming fear into voters that a victory for Ciattarelli was a victory for Trump. Voting for Ciattarelli was tantamount to allowing blue New Jersey to be annexed into the bright red MAGA movement, she argued.

Trump would crow for weeks of his conquest as validation of his frenzied 11 months of his second term. Sherrill’s campaign, thin on policy an

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