Experts believed New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy would easily win on Tuesday night. But we learned in 2016 and Tuesday night that the experts are often wrong.
The New Jersey governor race is too close to call. Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli trails Murphy by about 1,400 votes as of this morning.
First, we have Essex County. It seems the counting continues in heavier populated places. Murphy will probably win, but still. So odd.
Then something interesting happened in Bergen County. We went to bed last night with Ciattarelli up by 5% with 100% of the county reporting with 219,894 votes.
We woke up with 261,528 votes counted and Murphy up by 4%. The county somehow found 40,000 votes overnight
Could it be absentee and mail-in ballots? I thought they counted those first. New Jersey anchor Kurt Siegelin said officials are still counting those votes.
The County Clerk website still says Ciattarelli is ahead. It hasn’t updated its count.
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