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Guadagno, a close ally of Christie, isn’t likely to win, but if she did it, would largely represent continued gridlock with the Democratic dominated legislature. Murphy also promised to sign bills Christie has vetoed to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.Murphy promises more aid to state institutions of higher education and less reliance on tests in K-12 education.Murphy wants to charter a state bank, copying a practice that’s long been in place in North Dakota, that would be able to both meet certain policy objectives on the consumer side and guarantee that funds raised from New Jersey customers are invested in New Jersey businesses.Murphy has promised to extend a number of state-level protections to undocumented immigrants, including notably making them eligible for state-issued identification cards and occupational licenses.Christie has been vetoing gun control bills, including a measure to decrease accidental shootings by children, that Murphy would almost certainly sign.

Murphy is also proposing a big tax hike on New Jersey’s richest residents and corporations.

Murphy supports legalization of marijuana, a significant criminal justice policy initiative that he’s also counting on to raise revenue.

Given the state’s overall political lean, the Murphy administration will have fairly broad latitude to pursue a progressive agenda (though he will be constrained by the fact that New Jersey’s state finances aren’t in great shape and a Democratic administration will probably want to deal generously with New Jersey’s public sector employees and their pension plan).īut even given that constraint, the likely agenda for a Democratic trifecta is fairly expansive: Kim Guadagno, is going to be beaten by Democratic former banker and Ambassador to Germany Phil Murphy. Polls show fairly overwhelming odds that his chosen successor, Republican Lt. But for the past eight years, the once-popular Republican Chris Christie has served as governor. New Jersey is a solidly Democratic state that Hillary Clinton carried by 14 points and where Democrats have long enjoyed substantial majorities in the state legislature. New Jersey could get an empowered Democratic governor Medicaid expansion in Maine would be a huge deal for the estimated 70,000 Mainers newly qualified for the program and a shot in the arm to rural hospitals. Flipping Washington’s state Senate from a one-vote GOP majority to a one-vote Democratic majority will also create a Democratic trifecta a narrow legislative margin but one that creates new opportunities when combined with Washington state’s stronger fiscal position.

An expected Democratic win in New Jersey would create a Democratic trifecta in a blue state - potentially unleashing a wave of progressive policymaking that’s been stifled by eight years of Chris Christie. Yet Democratic victories in these three races have huge effects.

The New Jersey race looks set to be a Democratic blowout, the state Senate special in the suburbs of Seattle is lightly polled but also seems to clearly favor Democrats, and the paucity of polling in Maine makes it hard to construct any kind of narrative. These other races haven’t attracted as much attention because they’re less interesting from a horse-race perspective. National media coverage of Tuesday’s elections has focused fairly overwhelmingly on the governor’s race in Virginia, which seems to be close and features some interesting storylines about Ed Gillespie’s race-baiting electioneering tactics, which, if successful, will likely prove to be a model for Republicans nationwide.īut the policy stakes outside Virginia - in the not-so-close gubernatorial election in New Jersey, a Washington state Senate special election, and a Maine ballot initiative to expand Medicaid - are equally high.