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President Donald Trump’s promise to “Make America Great Again” may have made huge headway in New Jersey in last year’s presidential election, but a Rutgers-Eagleton poll released today finds that the president’s efforts may not be so popular among the state’s voters anymore.

According to the poll, which was conducted between July 31 and August 11, 51% of likely voters in this November’s gubernatorial election oppose the “MAGA movement” – and 46% of them strongly oppose it. 36% of likely voters support the movement (21% of them strongly), and 13% said they neither support nor oppose it.

The MAGA movement is, predictably, wildly unpopular among Democrats (4%-90%) and equally wildly popular among Republicans (87%-3%), with independents more split at 30% approve, 46% disapprove. Men, white voters, and older voters – three groups that lean more conservative – were more likely to say they supported the movement than women, nonwhite voters, and younger voters.

“Historically, moderation and center-right policy have often been a winning ticket for Republicans in New Jersey, but today, both GOP voters and candidates in the state appear to have aligned themselves with the national MAGA brand,” Eagleton Center director Ashley Koning said in a statement accompanying the poll release. “Even about a quarter of independents express some level of support for the movement, a critical group for Republican Jack Ciattarelli if he hopes to cross the finish line in November.”

The question on the MAGA movement was part of a larger poll Rutgers-Eagleton conducted earlier this month, one that also included a head-to-head test of the general election between Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) and former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli (R-Somerville). Sherrill posted a 44% to 35% lead, a result that Rutgers-Eagleton released last week.

Today’s polling release included a breakdown of those results based on respondents’ answers to the MAGA movement question. Those who oppose the MAGA movement break for Sherrill 82%-1%, and those who support it go for Ciattarelli 81%-2%; Ciattarelli also leads 40%-12% among the relatively small number of respondents who neither support nor oppose it.

The Rutgers-Eagleton poll was conducted from July 31 to August 11 with a sample size of 1,650 likely general election voters and a margin of error of /- 3.7%.

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A series of demonstrators opposing the war in Gaza interrupted a speech delivered by Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) on Tuesday evening.

Sherrill, the Democratic nominee for governor, spoke at a Women’s Equality Day event at Shiloh Baptist Church, a Black church in Plainfield. Sherrill was forced to pause her remarks three times, while staff and security led the demonstrators out of the room without major incident.

One woman walked toward the stage with a sign that read “Protect Women and Children, & Free Speech On Gaza.” The sign asked the congresswoman to oppose state legislation that would implement a controversial definition of antisemitism and support federal legislation that would restrict how and when the U.S. can send arms to Israel.

“I want to thank each and every person who came here tonight,” Sherrill said at the conclusion of her remarks, as another protester in the back of the room exclaimed toward the stage. “Yes, I want to thank the protesters who came here today. I want to thank the people who care so deeply about the future that they’re willing to come out and show up.”

Protesters of the war in Gaza interrupted Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s remarks during an event in Plainfield three times this evening. She finished her speech without major delays pic.twitter.com/8Tgw68eRGH

— Zach Blackburn (@zachblackburn23) August 27, 2025

Staffers for Sherrill signaled to protesters that they could speak with someone following the event, but asked for no disruptions.

After the third disruption, Rev. Dr. Danielle Brown, the church’s pastor, told the crowd to be respectful, and “if you have an outburst in you, at least respect the Black woman in the Black church.”

“If you want to be heard, there’s ways to do that,” Brown said to applause. “But we’re not going to be here all night because you cannot let her speak.”

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After a Pennsylvania judge determined last week that acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba had not been appointed properly and did not have the authority to continue serving, President Donald Trump’s administration quickly appealed his ruling – but its proposed timeline for that appeal may leave the situation unresolved for months.

The Justice Department, with the consent of the two New Jersey defendants who had challenged Habba’s authority in the first place, submitted a proposed expedited timeline to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals today that would result in oral arguments in “late October or early November.”

That would mean that Habba, a controversial figure at the center of one of the biggest nomination disputes of the second Trump administration, could be in limbo for months to come, with potential consequences for every federal court proceeding in the District of New Jersey.

When Judge Matthew Brann issued his ruling last week, he also preemptively stayed it pending appeal, theoretically leaving Habba’s authority in place for now. But according to today’s filing, many New Jersey cases had already ground to a halt before the decision came out, since the outcome of the case (and, now, its appeal) will determine whether any prosecution led by Habba’s office is valid.

“Even before Chief Judge Brann had issued his August 21 opinion and order, at least 12 District Judges in the District of New Jersey had begun adjourning matters pending the resolution of these questions,” the filing states. “Those adjourned matters include at least three trials that had been scheduled to begin in September, several guilty plea hearings, several sentencing hearings and a hearing on a post-trial Rule 29 motion. And shortly after Chief Judge Brann issued his opinion and order, yet another sentencing hearing was adjourned.”

The filing thus confirms what a number of news outlets had previously reported: the dispute over Habba’s authority has had a concrete impact on the administration of justice in New Jersey. And given the timeline put forward today, those impacts are not likely to abate any time soon.

“The longer it takes to resolve these appeals, the greater the risk that still more matters will be adjourned indefinitely, contrary to the interests of the Government, defendants, and the public in the disposition of criminal cases,” the filing states.

The Third Circuit has not yet agreed to the proposed timeline, nor has it stated which judges will oversee the case. If the timeline is approved, the next two months would involve several additional deadlines for filing briefs: the government’s brief on September 12, the defendants’ briefs on October 6, and a reply brief from the government on October 14.

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