Election night on Tuesday was longer than most observers — and certainly most pollsters — expected. Gov. Phil Murphy was ahead in all the pre-election polls, but his Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli told anyone who would listen that the race was too close to call.
With the race still not called by mid-afternoon Wednesday, many Democrats were saying it shouldn’t have been this close, and the introspection was well underway. Murphy underperformed in almost every county, compared to 2017.
