September 10, 2025 • 8 mins
Jack Ciattarelli talks with Mendte in the Morning about his race for NJ Governor as election day gets closer and polls continue to come out showing the race as a dead heat.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, we've been getting poll after poll after Paul in
the New Jersey race. Now there is a poll out
by Tipp Polling from Techno Metrica. This poll now has
the race between Jack Chittarelli versus Mikey Cheryl as a
one point contest, a virtual tie. Paul after poll after
(00:27):
poll showed it getting closer and closer, and this is
the closest it's been. And joining me now is Republican
candidate for governor in the great State of New Jersey,
Jack Chittarelly. Jack. I've been watching the polls, as I
know you will. Do you watch the polls.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I really don't, Larry, but I'm certainly aware of them
because people keep talking about them. But listen, the only
poll we really don't trust is the one that comes
out of the universities. They don't make the necessary investment
to get a very accurate one. We've got it as
a heat. My opponent has a dead heat. There's one
out there that's got me up by a point. We
just need to finish strong over these last fifty five
days and deliver a win.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Ya are you talking about the Tipp Pole the one.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I forget because there's a couple that are out there.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So I mean, listen, they've got it in single digits,
and last time around, they weren't saying that until the
second half of October. But we've got this thing as
a dead heat. And then I said, there's one other
poll out there I've heard of. This got me with
a one point lead. The poll I take is the
one every time I walk into a diner, Larry, and
that doesn't just mean a diners in Republican towns. But listen,
(01:35):
here's the other good news. And you know, in the
last month, we've gotten the endorsement of two Democratic mayors.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
We're about to announce a third.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Even Democrats across the state have had it with film
Murphy's filed policies knowing she's Murphy two point.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Zero, and she hasn't really run from that. I mean,
she doesn't run on his name or mention him a lot.
But you are absolutely correct. Many of the things that
she says she's going to do have been I've done
for the last eight years. I don't understand her running
like that, because you're right, what's happened in the last
(02:07):
eight years under Phil Murphy has been a disaster, and
why would you want to continue those policies? But she
really has in distances herself from him.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
She has no policies of her own. That's set a
different course. But Larry, there's only one name. She mentions, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
And as I keep saying that the people New Jersey,
what does the president have to do with our property taxes?
What does he have to do with our electricity bills?
What does he have to do with the failure of
our public education system? What does he have to do
with over development? What does he have to do with
(02:40):
the lack of support for law enforcement that's causing this,
this spike in nonviolent crime all across the state with
break ins, carthfts, and flash mobs.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
President's got nothing to do with that.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
We've been talking a lot today about crime, and I'm
glad you brought that up because casualst bail has proven
to be a killer been dying across the country. Just
in the last couple of days. We had that elderly
couple in Queens that was killed. We had the poor
woman down in Charlotte that was killed by somebody who's
been out on bail time and time and time again
(03:12):
as governor. Are you able to change that?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You bet? I am, and it's job number one.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
First of all, I'm going to point attorney general that
supports and agrees with me on the need to get
rid of cashless bail. It is created professional criminals, and
I'll put an awful lot of pressure on the legislature
to make the changes to the extent that I see
that we need to make them. But listen, I get
to appoint the twenty one county prosecutors. These are people
(03:38):
that charge the crimes, and I need to appoint superior
court judges that agree with me on this issue. We
need to stop showing more sympathy for the criminal than
for the victim. And the Charlotte case is heartbreaking, that
woman that was married, but it's the postal child for
everything that's wrong with cashless bail. It's created professional criminals
who've learned how to game the system with the arrest
(04:00):
release repeat is real.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Ask local cops.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, the second rail of runaway crime is the sanctuary
city policies. New Jersey is a sanctuary city, and you
have many cities that are sanctuary sanctuary state, and you
have many cities that are sanctuary cities. Is that all
going to be gone under Jacksheda?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Really, Larry, I don't need the legislature for that one.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
The Immigrant Trust Directive is by executive order, and I'll
reverse it on day one. It's executive order number one.
We shouldn't be encouraging illegal immigration. We shouldn't be handcuffing
our cops in any way. This is one of the
top three issues in the state, and we're going to
fix that on day one. But again, we need an
attorney general and county prosecutors who are going to support
(04:43):
local law enforcement. And when someone is arrested, we need
superior court judges that are going to give a punishment
that's appropriate for the crime, and that doesn't mean letting
people go.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I watched your town hall on Fox at a diner,
and I was surprised when they said that was very good,
by the way, and what to turn out you had.
I was surprised when they said. I was surprised by
two things. I was surprised when they said that Mikey Cheryl,
they reached out to her, she was invited and she
didn't show. I think that's a huge mistake on her part.
(05:12):
Has she been out there. Are you going to debate her?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
She's got the debate by law and two debates, but
the third debate, which was just invited to us, extended
to us by CBS News Channel two out of New York,
she declined she's not been making public appearances. When she
does make a public appearance, she walks in with a
three ring binder, with a speech prepared by staff that's
out of touch with what's going on every day in
(05:36):
New Jersey, in our communities. So I don't understand the
whole game plan. The DNC is trying to rescue her
now twenty million dollar ad by but we're matching her
dollar for dollar.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Up on the radio, on V and radio. So we
just got to keep doing what we're doing, Larry, and
I'm confident to win now.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I was surprised by that. I was also surprised by
the fact that you said, and I did not know
this until you said it. She's not from New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
She's not from New Jersey. We saw this with corasone
that didn't work out so well. We saw this with Murphy,
this hasn't worked out so well. She's not from New Jersey,
and very much like Corazon and Murphy. I really believe this, Larry.
She's using New Jersey as a stepping stone to get
somewhere else. The true ambition here is Vice President Cheryl.
President Cheryl. Okay, it's not about us, it's not about
(06:23):
New Jersey. It's about her. But all you have to
do is look at her time in the Congress. She's
tripled her net worth. She was found guilty of federal
law on stock trades and stock reporting. And while she
was sitting on the House Armed Services Committee, she was
trading defense stocks.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Larry.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
During the COVID pandemic, she's trading healthcare stocks left and right.
In twenty nineteen, she executed over one hundred and sixty
buy and sell trades while sitting in Congress.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Isn't it scary? Isn't it scary? How these congressmen and
congresswomen and senators go in and they have a certain
amount of wealth and they seem to triple it, or
they get five times as much wealth when they leave.
Is that what you're talking about? Is that what she's done?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
That's what she's done.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And she can't even answer the question how it is
her network is triple since time she took office, and
she's got the nerve to sit there and say, I'm
a career politician. I've term limited myself each and every time,
and in some of those jobs, I didn't take the
pay or the benefits.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, you listen. I know you have your own race
to worry about, but we don't have a lot of
time left. And I did want to throw out the
name Zora and Mom, Donnie, you may have to work
with him. If you're a governor and he he is
the mayor of New York City. What do you think
of a socialist running New York.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I think it's a very, very scary proposition. And I
will tell you that Jews in the Tri state area
are very uncomfortable about it. And my job is to
make sure our New Jerseys feel safe. I've also got
four and a one thousand New Jerseys that work in
Manhattan each every day. And this guy said that the
NYPD is a racist, anti queer threat to the community.
(08:00):
Do I not have to worry about these people. I
don't stop worrying about them just because they cross the border. Okay,
so this guy does not belong in public office, and
we'll do everything we can to make sure they lose.
But again, my opponent has endorsed him, and he returned
the favor by endorsing her.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I didn't know she endorsed him. Most Democrats aren't. That's
a little scary Jack. She had already Republican candidate for
New Jersey governor. Jack as always look forward to having
you back, looking forward to Larry.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Thank you.
Well, we've been getting poll after poll after Paul in
the New Jersey race. Now there is a poll out
by Tipp Polling from Techno Metrica. This poll now has
the race between Jack Chittarelli versus Mikey Cheryl as a
one point contest, a virtual tie. Paul after poll after
(00:27):
poll showed it getting closer and closer, and this is
the closest it's been. And joining me now is Republican
candidate for governor in the great State of New Jersey,
Jack Chittarelly. Jack. I've been watching the polls, as I
know you will. Do you watch the polls.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I really don't, Larry, but I'm certainly aware of them
because people keep talking about them. But listen, the only
poll we really don't trust is the one that comes
out of the universities. They don't make the necessary investment
to get a very accurate one. We've got it as
a heat. My opponent has a dead heat. There's one
out there that's got me up by a point. We
just need to finish strong over these last fifty five
days and deliver a win.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
And that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Ya are you talking about the Tipp Pole the one.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I forget because there's a couple that are out there.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So I mean, listen, they've got it in single digits,
and last time around, they weren't saying that until the
second half of October. But we've got this thing as
a dead heat. And then I said, there's one other
poll out there I've heard of. This got me with
a one point lead. The poll I take is the
one every time I walk into a diner, Larry, and
that doesn't just mean a diners in Republican towns. But listen,
(01:35):
here's the other good news. And you know, in the
last month, we've gotten the endorsement of two Democratic mayors.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
We're about to announce a third.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Even Democrats across the state have had it with film
Murphy's filed policies knowing she's Murphy two point.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Zero, and she hasn't really run from that. I mean,
she doesn't run on his name or mention him a lot.
But you are absolutely correct. Many of the things that
she says she's going to do have been I've done
for the last eight years. I don't understand her running
like that, because you're right, what's happened in the last
(02:07):
eight years under Phil Murphy has been a disaster, and
why would you want to continue those policies? But she
really has in distances herself from him.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
She has no policies of her own. That's set a
different course. But Larry, there's only one name. She mentions, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
And as I keep saying that the people New Jersey,
what does the president have to do with our property taxes?
What does he have to do with our electricity bills?
What does he have to do with the failure of
our public education system? What does he have to do
with over development? What does he have to do with
(02:40):
the lack of support for law enforcement that's causing this,
this spike in nonviolent crime all across the state with
break ins, carthfts, and flash mobs.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
President's got nothing to do with that.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
We've been talking a lot today about crime, and I'm
glad you brought that up because casualst bail has proven
to be a killer been dying across the country. Just
in the last couple of days. We had that elderly
couple in Queens that was killed. We had the poor
woman down in Charlotte that was killed by somebody who's
been out on bail time and time and time again
(03:12):
as governor. Are you able to change that?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You bet? I am, and it's job number one.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
First of all, I'm going to point attorney general that
supports and agrees with me on the need to get
rid of cashless bail. It is created professional criminals, and
I'll put an awful lot of pressure on the legislature
to make the changes to the extent that I see
that we need to make them. But listen, I get
to appoint the twenty one county prosecutors. These are people
(03:38):
that charge the crimes, and I need to appoint superior
court judges that agree with me on this issue. We
need to stop showing more sympathy for the criminal than
for the victim. And the Charlotte case is heartbreaking, that
woman that was married, but it's the postal child for
everything that's wrong with cashless bail. It's created professional criminals
who've learned how to game the system with the arrest
(04:00):
release repeat is real.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Ask local cops.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well, the second rail of runaway crime is the sanctuary
city policies. New Jersey is a sanctuary city, and you
have many cities that are sanctuary sanctuary state, and you
have many cities that are sanctuary cities. Is that all
going to be gone under Jacksheda?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Really, Larry, I don't need the legislature for that one.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
The Immigrant Trust Directive is by executive order, and I'll
reverse it on day one. It's executive order number one.
We shouldn't be encouraging illegal immigration. We shouldn't be handcuffing
our cops in any way. This is one of the
top three issues in the state, and we're going to
fix that on day one. But again, we need an
attorney general and county prosecutors who are going to support
(04:43):
local law enforcement. And when someone is arrested, we need
superior court judges that are going to give a punishment
that's appropriate for the crime, and that doesn't mean letting
people go.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I watched your town hall on Fox at a diner,
and I was surprised when they said that was very good,
by the way, and what to turn out you had.
I was surprised when they said. I was surprised by
two things. I was surprised when they said that Mikey Cheryl,
they reached out to her, she was invited and she
didn't show. I think that's a huge mistake on her part.
(05:12):
Has she been out there. Are you going to debate her?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
She's got the debate by law and two debates, but
the third debate, which was just invited to us, extended
to us by CBS News Channel two out of New York,
she declined she's not been making public appearances. When she
does make a public appearance, she walks in with a
three ring binder, with a speech prepared by staff that's
out of touch with what's going on every day in
(05:36):
New Jersey, in our communities. So I don't understand the
whole game plan. The DNC is trying to rescue her
now twenty million dollar ad by but we're matching her
dollar for dollar.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Up on the radio, on V and radio. So we
just got to keep doing what we're doing, Larry, and
I'm confident to win now.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I was surprised by that. I was also surprised by
the fact that you said, and I did not know
this until you said it. She's not from New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
She's not from New Jersey. We saw this with corasone
that didn't work out so well. We saw this with Murphy,
this hasn't worked out so well. She's not from New Jersey,
and very much like Corazon and Murphy. I really believe this, Larry.
She's using New Jersey as a stepping stone to get
somewhere else. The true ambition here is Vice President Cheryl.
President Cheryl. Okay, it's not about us, it's not about
(06:23):
New Jersey. It's about her. But all you have to
do is look at her time in the Congress. She's
tripled her net worth. She was found guilty of federal
law on stock trades and stock reporting. And while she
was sitting on the House Armed Services Committee, she was
trading defense stocks.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Larry.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
During the COVID pandemic, she's trading healthcare stocks left and right.
In twenty nineteen, she executed over one hundred and sixty
buy and sell trades while sitting in Congress.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Isn't it scary? Isn't it scary? How these congressmen and
congresswomen and senators go in and they have a certain
amount of wealth and they seem to triple it, or
they get five times as much wealth when they leave.
Is that what you're talking about? Is that what she's done?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
That's what she's done.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And she can't even answer the question how it is
her network is triple since time she took office, and
she's got the nerve to sit there and say, I'm
a career politician. I've term limited myself each and every time,
and in some of those jobs, I didn't take the
pay or the benefits.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, you listen. I know you have your own race
to worry about, but we don't have a lot of
time left. And I did want to throw out the
name Zora and Mom, Donnie, you may have to work
with him. If you're a governor and he he is
the mayor of New York City. What do you think
of a socialist running New York.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I think it's a very, very scary proposition. And I
will tell you that Jews in the Tri state area
are very uncomfortable about it. And my job is to
make sure our New Jerseys feel safe. I've also got
four and a one thousand New Jerseys that work in
Manhattan each every day. And this guy said that the
NYPD is a racist, anti queer threat to the community.
(08:00):
Do I not have to worry about these people. I
don't stop worrying about them just because they cross the border. Okay,
so this guy does not belong in public office, and
we'll do everything we can to make sure they lose.
But again, my opponent has endorsed him, and he returned
the favor by endorsing her.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I didn't know she endorsed him. Most Democrats aren't. That's
a little scary Jack. She had already Republican candidate for
New Jersey governor. Jack as always look forward to having
you back, looking forward to Larry.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Thank you.
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