hoping to unseat democratic governor phil murphy. murphy looks to be the first democrat reelected as governor since 1977. we re live at a polling place in jersey city. welcome to fox news alexis. hello. good morning, bill. thank you very much for the welcome. very happy to be here and excited to be part of the fox team. here in jersey city the polling location things are picking up a little bit. poll locations have been open since 6:00 this morning expecting people to keep coming in throughout the day to cast votes. the state of new jersey has more registered democrats than republicans the race is tighter than people expected. new jersey governor phil murphy, democrat, is running for his second term in office. incumbent squaring off against assemblyman jack ciattarelli. top concerns are taxes and the covid-19 pandemic. fox news spoke with both candidates on the campaign trail in the last few days.