Are the two in doubledigit leads, but lets run through the entire list just to be fair to all of them. Phil murphy, jim johnson, john wisniewski, raymond lesniak, bill brennan, and mark zinna are the democrats on the slate. Kim guadagno, Jack Ciattarelli, steve rogers, joseph rullo, and hirsh singh are the republicans who would like to be the next governor. The libertarian candidates are not gonna be pictured, but well tell you they are peter rohrman. The green party has seth kaperdale, and the independent candidate is jon lancelot. What do you see as some of the differentials, and what may, in the end, make a difference . Voters are going to the polls on tuesday. Well, historically, new jersey has the opposite party of whoever won the white house tends to do well. Murphy certainly hes kind of corzine 2. 0, right . Hes a Goldman Sachs guy, a gazillionaire whos funding his own race. Weve seen this movie before. And the other key thing for murphy is hes from monmouth county. For republic
Listen to what ted cruz said about getting to yes. If premiums continue to rise after we hold a press conference claiming to have repealed obamacare, that is a disaster. It is a disaster politically. Its a disaster substantiallily. It would be a failure of the mandate weve been given by the voters. Reporter take a look at three senators who are not a no, but theyre not yeses, theyre somewhat unclear. That obviously would be Susan Collins of maine, Lisa Murkowski from alaska, and rob portman from ohio. Neil as you do the math, it is simple, 48 democrats will vote no. Mitch mcconnell needs at least 50 republicans to say yes. Then he can get this through with the Vice President voting in favor as well. If he loses just one more, because if he loses more than the two, if it is three, this thing doesnt go forward. Negotiations are underway. Everybody has different concerns. Some like portman are concerned about funding for opioid at diction. Collins from maine is concerned about impacts fro
Fargos ceos compensation went up despite the sales scandal that shook the bank. We have more details on that controversial story coming up. But we start with the budget blueprint the white house ingave this morning. You can see the percentages there. Hes calling for cuts, meantime, at the Environmental Protection agency and the departments of state, labor, agriculture and commerce all in the range of 16 to 31 . We have full Team Coverage on which stocks stand to gain and lose the most from these proposed changes. Kayla tausche taking a look at infrastructure. Meg tirrell looking at pharma and health care. We got some glimmers of what the white house wants to do with infrastructure. Its proposing to end several projects. The governments proposing steep cuts to infrastructure heavy agencies and their programs at agricultu agriculture, cutting rural water program. And a billion dollar budget cut at the defense departments corps of engineers which maintains inland water ways like dams and
Get ready for more fed speak at home. Our road map begins with the president. No pullback despite the near daily drama in washington. New this morning, Electronics Ban targ it eieting flighting from muslim majority count countries. The president takes a visit to capitol hill, selling the Gop Health Care bill ahead of the vote on thursday. Stocks continue to show resiliency. The nasdaq taking aim at another interday high after four Straight Days of gain. The dow and s p up. S p is up 11 since the election. But the nasdaq put together three gains of less than a point. Yes. Which hasnt happened three times in a row since the 90 s. Closes at 5900 or 5901. I mean, it obviously tells you, maybe not that much going on, but also a coiling effect potentially. Youre seeing the volatility indexes and Everything Else looking like, you know, sort of the movement has been this offsetting action. At some point, no broad selling pressure. Really, something is working to keep it supported. It is amazin
Cspan buses, we have a call in set, take your calls and talk about issues of government corruption, why corruption threatens Global Security. It came from experience but i was living in southern afghanistan. I covered the following the taliban and for National Public radio. In january 2003, saying i really need to shut up already. I have no intention of focusing on corruption. I was doing standard reconstruction type work but in the very first project i wanted to do was rebuilding a village destroyed in the American Bombing in 2002, we were trying to rebuild mudbrick houses but in order to build a mudbrick house if you have seen a picture of southern afghanistan you will know one of the few abundant resources is stone, but it turned out we couldnt get any stone to the foundation of mudbrick houses because the governor awarded a monopoly to himself so he could crush it into gravel and sell it to the americans who were building their military base for ten times the going price. Not a goo