As New Jersey's Ciattarelli concedes, the GOP gubernatorial nominee vows to run again in four years

Ten days after New Jersey's extremely close gubernatorial election, Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli conceded to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy. But moments later Ciattarelli declared he plans to run again for Garden State governor in four years, saying "that is exactly my plan. I’ll be running for governor." Ciattarelli’s announcement elicited cheers from his supporters attending his news conference in his hometown of Raritan, New Jersey. Pointing to Murphy, who was reelected by a razor-thin margin, Ciattarelli said "I want the governor to be successful in addressing the issues that are most important to New Jerseyans. But I just have this feeling that there’s going to be a lot of fixing to do come four years from now."

This could very well be a preview of the 2022 election.

I feel most FReepers feel our election system is currently set up to be election fraud central. Until we can grow some balls and fix it forever, it will continue.

Personally, I’m sick of it.

The guy didn’t really have much of a campaign except a few commercials talking about taxes and a few jokes about Murphy. The voters were scammed from both ends. I feel that this guy was in the pocket of the Democrats (lets put this guy in in the primary and he’ll stand down with challenging us for any election shenanigans in Nov).

I think since the GOP needs to re-examine its strategy and see what is successful against likely ingrained DEM cheating and what isn’t going back several election cycles (federal/state/local) One of the patterns that has emerged is that Dem cheating is usually successful if they have enough time to coordinate and set up all their apparatuses(legal, media, union, govt agencies, oppo research, etc...) on all levels against the GOP candidate. But they all have to be in sync and ready to go early on or their operation has a high chance of failing.

That’s when they take the GOP opponents/incumbents seriously enough to have all hands on deck early on.

However, they end up losing when they think their candidate early on in the election will simply be the coronated winner like they thought in 2016 with Hillary. They thought the same thing with McAuliffe in 2021 at the beginning of the election, speculating the VA GOP wouldn’t be able unite around a nominee who the Dems could frame as either too right-wing “crazy” or too establishment “boring.” And, finally, the Dems rested on their laurels in the NJ Senate race where this truck driver won.

The question here is what does the GOP do to maintain such seats after blindsiding the Dems in these types of elections (b/c the Dems didn’t have time to get their cheat apparatus together) when re-election comes about? That was DJT’s campaign team’s biggest error. They didn’t change up their strategy enough from 2016, assuming the Dems were gonna play the same if not similar way.

I agree with what you say. I would also add that the reason the Democrats are more successful at cheating (as you lay out with all the coordination they employ) than the Republicans are more successful against countering the cheating, is that the Democrat party is actually more of an “organization” with many resources at the ready vs the Republican party, who at best, are a lose collection of ‘like minded’ people, and the only vestige of an ‘organization’ are the entrenched establishment Republicans who command resources primarily only for their own personal benefit of keeping power in the ‘club’ (i.e. Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy - ‘RNC committee’, who only care about their own power than they do about statewide and national elections.

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