Representative Mikie Sherrill won the Democratic nomination for New Jersey governor Tuesday, defeating five rivals thanks to heavy fundraising and political support from the bulk of the party establishment. She will face Republican Jack Ciattarelli, a former state legislator who narrowly lost a previous gubernatorial race in 2021.

Sherrill’s victory means that in the two main statewide elections of 2025, for the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia, the Democratic Party is nominating candidates drawn directly from the military-intelligence apparatus—what the WSWS has characterized as the “CIA Democrats.”

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The title is kind of confusing. The WSWS (trotskyist newspaper) has declared Mikie Sherrill to be a CIA asset because she was in the US Navy. She’s not openly CIA like Elissa Slotkin.

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      If she is running as military connected, and supported by corrupt business interests, and has a vested interest in USA military, it’s close enough