Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., sent mailers to Republican voters stressing Republican candidate Frank Pallotta’s 2020 endorsement from Trump.
Trump has yet to endorse a Republican candidate in the 2022 primary race for New Jersey’s Fifth District.
“Frank Pallotta is too much like Trump,” the mailer reads, selling Gottheimer as a “problem solver” looking to find “commonsense, bipartisan solutions.” “Josh Gottheimer fights for Jersey families.”
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New Jersey Republican Party executive director Tom Szymanski ignited Gottheimer over the mailers in a Monday statement to Fox News Digital.
“The fact that Josh Gottheimer feels the need to spend tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, to try putting his thumb on the scale of the opposing party’s primary speaks volumes about how desperate he is given his track record of loyally supporting Joe Biden’s anti-energy and inflationary spending policies,” Szymanski said.
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“No amount of meddling or money spent will save Gottheimer from the voters this November,” he added.
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GOP front-runner and Marine Corps. veteran Nick De Gregorio said it “is clear who Josh Gottheimer wants to win this Republican primary – and it’s not the guy who served his country in four tours overseas and is now calling on him and others to sell off their stock portfolios to clean up Washington.”
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“For years, Democrats like Josh Gottheimer talked ad nauseam about Russian interference in our elections,” De Gregorio said. “Now Josh, who consistently presents himself as a bipartisan, common-sense Democrat who’s above the fray, is using Liberal special interest money to wage his own Putin-style disinformation campaign to confuse Republican primary voters about who the true Conservative leader in this race is.”
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“It’s dead wrong – and if Josh is the statesman he claims to be, he will immediately stop any spending in the CD5 Republican primary,” he added, calling on Pallotta “to immediately disavow Gottheimer’s attempt to put his thumb on the scale in this race.”
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“Josh is running scared with good reason. He knows that the cost of food and gas and the Biden administration’s abject failure to secure the border and support our cops is indefensible here,” De Gregorio said. “But here’s a message for you, Josh, man-to-man: I will never stop fighting for the future of this country against gutless cowards like you.”
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Gottheimer isn’t the only Democrat who seems to be tossing primary smokescreens trying to tie Republicans to Trump – the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race is seeing television ads from the presumptive Democrat nominee, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, targeting GOP state Sen. Doug Mastriano as “one of Donald Trump’s strongest supporters.”
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