The race for the governor of New Jersey warms up to taxes like Sherrill, Ciattarelli Clash

Democratic and republican candidates in a crucial election for the governor of New Jersey exchange taxi in one of the most taxed nation states.

Friday, representative Mikie Sherrill, the 2025 Democratic candidate, launched a new advertisement labeling his rival of Gop Jack Ciattarelli “High Tax Jack on Friday.

And Ciattarelli, following the first debate between the two candidates, underlined on social networks that Sherrill “refused to exclude your taxes”.

Taxes, as well as affordability, are the main problems of the New Jersey campaign campaign in one of the most expensive states in the country.

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The democratic representative of the governor of governor Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey answers questions during the first general electoral debate with the republican opponent Jack Ciattarelli. Sunday September 21, 2025 in Lawrenceville, NJ (AP photo / Noah K. Murray)

The announcement of Sherrill’s campaign highlights the “taxes are on the table” Comments by the package of Ciattarelli Jim Gannon earlier this week during the debate of Lieutenant-Governor.

“Whoa Jack, what the (beep) said to your guy,” said the narrator in the digital point.

The response of Gannon’s debate, a sheriff of the county, came because he was asked if the Ciattarelli administration would consider an increase in taxes over the millionaires.

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“We have to look at him. You have to look at everything,” added Gannon. “What I say is that the millionaires, we cannot simply beat the millionaires. The millionaires, several times, are employers; they employ us.”

After the debate, the Ciattarelli campaign said Gannon meant that tax reduction is on the table, not raising them.

Jack Ciattarelli, the republican candidate for the governor of New Jersey, participates in a forum of candidates at Fairleigh Dickinson University, on October 1, 2025 in Madison, NJ (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

Ciattarelli, who almost defeated the Democratic Governor Phil Murphy four years ago, seemed to be cleaning in a digital interview Fox News the day after the debate.

“There will be no increase in tax under the Governor Ciattarelli. And I will put a very specific plan on how to reduce income and property tax here in New Jersey. No tax increase,” he said.

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The Tax Crossfire occurred a week after Sherrill, during his first debate with Ciattarelli, seemed to give her rival political ammunition with her answer to a question to know if she would plan to increase the sales tax if she was elected governor.

“I’m not going to get into anything right now, because I’m not going to tell you what you want to hear,” said Sherrill.

The republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli, on the left, shakes the hand of the Democratic candidate for Governor Mikie Sherrill, on the right, before a debate on Sunday September 21, 2025, in Lawrenceville, NJ (AP photo / Noah K. Murray)

Ciattarelli went to social networks following the debate to write: “We asked the two candidates this evening if they undertake not to increase your taxes as governor. One would do it. It’s me. Mikie refused. Hear this strong and clear New Jersey: Mikie Sherrill refused to exclude your taxes. Here is the truth: we cannot afford Mikie.”

But the next day, Sherrill, in a campaign statement, undertook not to increase the sales tax.

“I will not increase the sales tax as governor,” she said.

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Taxes were the main concern in the minds of New Jersey voters in a Fox News survey published this week.

In spontaneous and uncomposed responses, 34% said that taxes is the biggest problem that the state is confronted, 20% affirming the cost of living. Other problems such as housing and energy costs have been mentioned by 5% or less.

The survey, which was led from September 25 to 28, said that Sherrill was preferred by 16 points among those whose priority is the cost of living, while tax voters have favored Ciattarelli by 5 points.

Sherrill, a veteran of the navy who piloted helicopters during his years in the army and who was then federal prosecutor before the first election of victory in the congress in 2018, held a 7 -point lead on Ciattarelli among the registered voters interviewed in Fox News Survey.

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But Ciattarelli, a former state legislator and certified accounting that launched a medical publishing company before embarking on politics, praised in its digital Fox News interview that “energy is out of the charts, and the fact that I am approved by state Democratic mayors, said a lot about people who want changes here in the state of New Jersey”.

The two candidates will compete next week during their second debate and final before the voters went to the polls in the elections to succeed Murphy limited in the long term.