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Fox News Poll: New Jersey governor’s race has tightened

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7 months ago

October 28, 2025

Fox News Poll: New Jersey governor’s race has tightened

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A new Fox News survey finds Democrat Mikie Sherrill ahead of Republican Jack Ciattarelli by 5 points among New Jersey likely voters (50-45%), down from an 8-point lead in late September (50-42%). Among registered voters, she’s up by 4 points (48-44%), down from a 7-point lead (48-41%).

Either way, the race has tightened, and Sherrill’s edge is inside the poll’s margin of sampling error.

This analysis uses registered voter results.

FOX NEWS POLL: DEMOCRAT SHERRILL LEADS NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR’S RACE

Key groups that give Sherrill her advantage include Black voters, those under age 35, women ages 45 and younger, those with a college degree and Hispanic voters.

Ciattarelli’s best groups include MAGA supporters, men without a college degree, White men, Catholics and those ages 55-64.

About nine in 10 of each candidate’s supporters say they are certain to back them, but more of Ciattarelli’s supporters (69%) say they are extremely or very enthusiastic about voting this year than Sherrill’s (64%). On both sides, one in 10 supporters say they could change their mind before voting.

Recent campaign attacks have taken a toll on the candidates’ favorability and honesty ratings.

Sherrill’s honesty and trustworthy marks remain positive overall — but have declined since late September. More voters now view her as more honest than not, by a 5-point margin (52–47%), down from a 16-point advantage just three weeks ago (56–40%).

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A similar shift occurred in her personal ratings. Sherrill was viewed more favorably than unfavorably by 10 points last month (51-41%) — and, now, views are net positive by only 2 points (50-48%).

Views of Ciattarelli have also shifted negatively, though not as much as Sherrill’s. On honesty, his marks have gone from being in positive territory by 4 points in September to underwater by 2 points today. His favorable ratings are net negative by 3 points now vs. by 2 points last month.

“The allegations about Sherrill’s record at the Naval Academy damaged her, but the manner in which those records were obtained have left Ciattarelli open to criticism as well,” says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who helps conduct the Fox News Poll with Democratic counterpart Chris Anderson.

“On the whole, it seems Ciattarelli has benefited slightly, if only because he was behind and needed to change the dynamics of the race.”

On some traits, perceptions of the candidates are closely aligned. For instance, 54% think Sherrill, a U.S. congresswoman, is a “strong leader” and an equal number, 54%, feel the same about Ciatterelli, a former state assemblyman. Half believe the phrase “can bring needed change” applies to each.

On other characteristics, there are modest differences — such as empathy: 55% think “cares about people like me” describes Sherrill, compared to 49% for Ciattarelli.

Voters identify taxes (34%) and the cost of living (19%) as the top two problems facing the Garden State, and a larger number trusts Sherrill to handle both of those — by 3 points on taxes and by 6 points on the cost of living. She is also favored on energy costs (+3) and healthcare (+14), while more trust Ciattarelli to handle crime (+7).

Some 92% of Republicans support Ciattarelli, and 89% of Democrats back Sherrill, while the small subgroup of independents splits. Sherrill benefits from more NJ voters identifying as Democrats than Republicans.

The candidates are competing to fill term-limited Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s seat. He beat Ciattarelli by about 3 points in the last election and leaves the governor’s mansion with mixed marks: 47% of New Jersey voters have a positive view of him vs. 49% negative.

In addition, while more than half, 55%, are currently unhappy with how things are going in the state, that’s an improvement from 62% who were dissatisfied in the months preceding Murphy’s first term.

In both 2020 and 2016, President Donald Trump received 41% of the vote in New Jersey. He performed better in 2024, garnering 46%, yet still losing to former Vice President Kamala Harris (52%).

Today, 45% of New Jersey voters have a favorable opinion of Trump, while 54% view him unfavorably. That’s up from eight years ago. During his first term, it was 36% favorable vs. 62% unfavorable.

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Conducted October 10-14, 2025 under the joint direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News Poll includes interviews with a sample of 1,002 New Jersey registered voters randomly selected from a statewide voter file. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (153) and cellphones (592) or completed the survey online by following a link received via text message (257). There was a subsample of 869 likely voters. Results based on both the registered voter and likely voter sample have a margin of sampling error of ± 3 percentage points. Sampling error for results among subgroups is higher. In addition to sampling error, question wording and order can influence results. Sources for developing weight targets include the most recent American Community Survey, Fox News Voter Analysis, and voter file data. Weights are generally applied to age, race, education, and area variables to ensure the demographics of respondents are representative of the registered voter population. Likely voters are identified based on past vote history and self-reported likelihood of voting. Results among subgroups are only shown when the sample size is at least N=100.

Fox News’s Victoria Balara contributed to this report.

As head of the polling unit, Dana Blanton runs the Fox News Poll and oversees the Fox News Voter Analysis election survey.

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New York

Deadly Gang Feud Left Bystander Paralyzed in Brooklyn

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2 hours ago

May 12, 2026

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Deadly Gang Feud Left Bystander Paralyzed in Brooklyn

A 16-year-old boy was heading to a Starbucks in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn in November, unaware he was walking near a marked man.

The teenager, who had just left a football game, was steps away from the coffee shop on Nov. 30, when two people fired into the street. They missed their target, a member of a rival Brooklyn gang, officials said on Monday. But they struck the boy, severing his spinal cord and leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, officials said.

The boy, who was not identified, was one of seven people shot — one fatally — between April 2025 and March 2026, as two groups from Coney Island, Koney Sides and FOG, formed an alliance and fired indiscriminately at rival gangs around Brooklyn in attacks that sometimes erupted in broad daylight.

Four of the people shot, including the 16-year-old boy, were innocent bystanders of retaliatory violence that swept through several Brooklyn neighborhoods, including Brownsville, Crown Heights and Canarsie, officials said. The other victims included another 16-year-old boy and two young men, 20 and 21, officials said.

Fifteen people, including 11 teenagers between 16 and 19 years old, were indicted on May 6 on charges that included conspiracy to commit murder and criminal possession of weapons, said Eric Gonzalez, the Brooklyn district attorney, who announced the indictments on Monday. The boy who was paralyzed was shot by a 16-year-old, officials said.

The other four defendants are between 20 and 27 years old. They have all pleaded not guilty.

“These men were ready for war, and we allege that they were willing to use those guns at a moment’s notice, never hesitating to take action against their perceived rivals,” Mr. Gonzalez said.

The accusations against the teenage defendants and the age of the victims underscored how youth-related shootings have propelled violence in the city, even as the overall number of killings and shootings keep dropping.

The feud was driven by grudges and beefs that are based on geography, with rivals mocking each other and escalating tensions in videos posted on social media.

“It’s not monetary,” said Joseph Kenny, the Police Department’s chief of detectives. “It’s not over drug turf. It’s not over girls. It’s just strictly over them disrespecting each other.”

Mr. Gonzalez, standing alongside Commissioner Jessica Tisch during a news conference, played several videos that showed some of the shootings, sometimes on busy streets where people were walking and riding scooters on sidewalks.

The violence began escalating after the April 27, 2025, killing of Javon Johnnie, one of the members of the Koney Sides/FOG group, Mr. Gonzalez said.

Two days later, at his vigil, members of the gang began talking about who might have killed him and mistakenly blamed a rival group, he said. Mr. Johnnie had been shot by someone he was trying to rob, officials said, but at the time his friends believed he had been killed by gang rivals based in Flatbush.

That night, four members of his group, including Tyquan Holmes and Tamari Carmona, 17, went to the Flatbush Gardens housing complex wearing masks and bearing firearms, Mr. Gonzalez said.

“They went out there looking for payback,” he said.

Surveillance video shows four people walking in a courtyard and coming upon two young men who see them, back away and flee. The group begins to fire when suddenly Mr. Carmona falls to the ground, fatally wounded. He had been shot by Mr. Holmes, who accidentally struck him in the head, Mr. Gonzalez said, describing it as an incident of “friendly fire.”

Five days later, Mr. Holmes texted his mother who had reached out to him to remind him to call his probation officer, Mr. Gonzalez said, showing the text exchange on a screen.

“Tell her I’m out of town,” he replied to her, according to the texts. “Got bigger things to worry about. Somebody life got took.”

Mr. Holmes then told her he was involved in the shooting, according to the texts.

Matthew Keith Mobilia, a lawyer for Mr. Holmes, now 18, did not immediately respond to a message for comment.

Commissioner Tisch said the defendants were awakened and arrested early in the morning on May 6 following a 13-month investigation into the two groups.

All but two of the defendants are “accused of pulling the trigger in these cases,” she said. Police officers recovered a total of more than 180 shell casings following the attacks, Commissioner Tisch said.

“Behind every one of these numbers is a real victim and a real community forced to live with the consequences of this violence,” she said.

In one instance in May 2025, four men wearing masks and hooded shirts shot at the house of a rival in Canarsie. One of the shooters was caught two minutes later by police officers who had been patrolling in the area.

In another, on Feb. 20 at about 11 p.m., a 16-year-old was shot in the abdomen when he was standing around Newkirk Avenue in East Flatbush with two other people. Three gang members shot at them, firing about 30 times, in retaliation for a shooting that had happened earlier that day, officials said, but the 16-year-old, who survived, had nothing to do with the feud.

“That is the level of recklessness that we’re talking about,” Commissioner Tisch said.

In 2025, the police carried out 70 gang takedowns and arrested about 390 people identified as gang members, she said.

That’s a significant number, Commissioner Tisch said, because about 60 percent of city wide shootings have “some nexus” to gang rivalries.

Boston, MA

Canvas reportedly reaches deal with hackers for stolen data – Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

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3 hours ago

May 12, 2026

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Canvas reportedly reaches deal with hackers for stolen data – Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

BOSTON (WHDH) – The maker of the online learning platform Canvas has reportedly reached a deal wit the hackers who took down the site last week to get their data back.

The company did not reveal what was given to the hackers in exchange for the return of more than 275 million users’ data, but said they confirmed the data was detroyed.

Canvas was down for several hours last week because of the cyberattack.

The hacking group said nearly 9,000 schools worldwide were impacted, including Harvard University.

They said they accessed billions of private messages and personal information.

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