GOP front-runner Jack Ciattarelli has been walking a fine line, sticking to his moderate base while not entirely denouncing former President Trump
The conservative Republican vote for gubernatorial candidate could be split between Phil Rizzo and Hirsh Singh, clearing an already wide open path for Jack Ciattarelli. He’s been walking a fine line, sticking to his moderate base while also not entirely denouncing former President Donald Trump.
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An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.
Michael Aron has been reporting on New Jersey politics for 42 years. He semi-retired in 2020 but continues to report on elections and other special coverage.