Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey introduced Friday that he would search to develop into the Garden State’s subsequent governor, getting into what is predicted to be a crowded Democratic main discipline.
Gottheimer has represented his state’s fifth Congressional District, which lies in northern New Jersey, bordering New York, since 2017.
With Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, unable to run attributable to time period limits, a number of Democrats have already jumped into the race —together with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop — and a number of other others are anticipated to run.
In a video launching his marketing campaign, Gottheimer acknowledged that he would share comparable targets as different Democrats working for governor, together with preventing the incoming Donald Trump administration “on the key points.”
“From well being care to the atmosphere to gun security, each candidate shares the identical targets, and on the difficulty of abortion rights, we’ll all stand as much as Trump as extremist assaults on ladies’s well being care,” he added.
But one distinguishing characteristic of his marketing campaign, Gottheimer stated, is that he’s “centered like a laser beam on the necessity to decrease your taxes and decrease your prices.”
The marketing campaign launch video featured Gottheimer’s sister, who stated her brother has “at all times been a doer and an issue solver.”
The video additionally spotlighted Mary Frances Berry, an creator and activist who served on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1980 to 2004, and somebody whom Gottheimer has lengthy referred to as a mentor.
“He stands up for what he believes, and you may depend on him to ship,” Berry stated within the marketing campaign video.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., who has served alongside Gottheimer since 2019, is one other identify that has been floated within the state as a possible candidate in subsequent 12 months’s race.
A spokesperson for her congressional marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.