Republican New Jersey Governor Candidate Jack Ciattarelli Not Conceding
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The New Jersey Governor race continues.
GOP candidate Jack Ciattarelli announced he is not conceding in the race.
The result of New Jersey’s election for governor will be “legal and fair” no matter the outcome, Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli said Thursday in his first comments since The Associated Press declared incumbent Democrat Phil Murphy the election’s winner.
Ciattarelli has not conceded the election.
“No one should be declaring victory or conceding the election until every legal vote is counted,” Ciattarelli said in the 2-minute video clip posted on Twitter.
Ciattarelli, a former Assembly member, said he will wait for the state’s 21 counties to complete counting thousands of mail-in and other ballots, which could take until next week, before deciding whether to ask for a recount.
The RNC has deployed lawyers to New Jersey.
"RNC deploys 20 lawyers to NJ as counting continues"
Every legal vote will be counted & our election integrity team (the largest such team ever assembled) will be scrutinizing the process to ensure that's the case & that we get @Jack4NJ elected Governor https://t.co/EpQOZvhnxf
— New Jersey GOP (@NJGOP) November 3, 2021
With Jack Ciattarelli trailing by only 15,000 votes out of about 2.4 million tabulated (so far), Save Jersey has learned that the Republican National Committee (RNC) is dispatching a legal team to the Garden State to supplement the Ciattarelli campaign and NJGOP legal efforts.
The RNC lawyers are also prepared to go to court if necessary to address any Democrat shenanigans as the vote counting continues into next week; vote by mail ballots are counted in New Jersey if they were postmarked by Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Prior to Election Night, the RNC fielded poll watchers for 104 targeted New Jersey precincts and trained 286 total poll watchers. The RNC-backed election integrity program also dispatched 187,000 emails and 54,000 texts to New Jersey voters.
