| Winner | Losers |
| LORETTA WEINBERG | TAHESHA WAY |
| The Senate Majority Leader demonstrates courage and leadership by telling the story of being sexually assaulted 70 years ago. | The Secretary of State, “Tahesha In Way Over Her Head” continues to face harsh criticism. so far only in private, from Democrats and Republicans for her handling — or not handling — of the special election for Bergen County Sheriff. |
| MIKIE SHERRILL | REPUBLICANS |
| The Democratic congressional candidate raises about $2 million in the last quarter, putting her in range of taking out Josh Gottheimer as New Jersey’s Human Fundraising Machine. | The latest voter registration numbers shows that New Jersey has 921,531 more Democrats than Republicans, an enormous mathematical advantage. The 7th and 11th have about 1/4 of the voter registration edge they had when the districts were drawn in 2012. |
| PHIL MURPHY | STOCKTON UNIVERSITY |
| The Governor of New Jersey gets some good news: a Quinnipiac University poll shows him with 54% approvals — continuing to make him the most popular first-year governor in modern state history. | The Stockton Poll was a big deal for a day, until a prominent pollster beat the crap out of their methodology — and then two polls came out that sidelined theirs. |
| CORY BOOKER | JOE ANDL |
| The United States Senator has a 58% approval rating in a new Quinnipiac University poll released this week. That’s good news as he mulls a bid for president the same year he’s up for re-election to the Senate. | The seemingly AWOL Burlington County Democratic Chairman, who appeared on the cusp of ousting GOP majority on the freeholder board, now looks bad with a newspaper report that he knew about domestic violence charges involving one of his candidates. |
| ANTHONY CURETON & JACK DELORENZO | LEONARD LANCE |
| Bergen County is getting a new Sheriff, and it will be one of these guys, both winners of contested elections and both the establishment choices. | The five-term congressman, in a tough race, sees the story of his “I tend not to believe” the woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault grow into a big-deal New York Times story. |
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Jeremy Jedynak deserves to be in the loser column this week. He completely squandered an opportunity to change attorneys in Rockaway, but committed a series of fatal mistakes and is now stuck with an attorney who doesn't like him. The biggest error was trusting an outside venue for hosting a council meeting where timing was critical. What could go wrong did go wrong, and then they had to scramble with an impossible situation - meet the deadline to act as mayor and change attorneys but still notify the public 48 hours prior to the meeting. Impossible because the courts have ruled several times in the past that sending notification 48 hours prior is insufficient. So he accomplished nothing as acting mayor when he could have scored a big accomplishment, and instead he pissed off the residents even more, spent more taxpayer money on legal fees, and has a court defeat on his political record. Such a shame.