{"id":10162,"date":"2025-06-11T11:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/5-takeaways-from-the-new-jersey-primaries\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T11:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:20:22","slug":"5-takeaways-from-the-new-jersey-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/5-takeaways-from-the-new-jersey-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"5 takeaways from the New Jersey primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The matchup for New Jersey&rsquo;s gubernatorial race is set, with Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli having won their respective nominations Tuesday.  Ciattarelli&rsquo;s victory, after having won the GOP nomination four years ago and gained President Trump&rsquo;s coveted endorsement, seemed all but assured heading into the primary&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5343552-new-jersey-governor-primary-takeaways\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The matchup for New Jersey&rsquo;s gubernatorial race is set, with Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli having won their respective nominations Tuesday. Ciattarelli&rsquo;s victory, after having won the GOP nomination four years ago and gained President Trump&rsquo;s coveted endorsement, seemed all but assured heading into the primary&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}