From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, May 13th.

One of the big decisions in our area this year is who's going to be the next governor of New Jersey, right? Now, that always

matters on the perennial issues like housing, schools, transportation. This year, it has the

urgent overlay of how to adjust to the political revolution taking place in Washington that

affects the garden state in so many ways. So arguably, choosing a governor is an even bigger deal

this year than usual. Last week, we played excerpts from the Republican gubernatorial debate

held by WNYC and NJ Spotlight News from PBS. Last night, it was the Democrats' turn, the five

qualifying candidates with WNYC's Michael Hill and NJ Spotlights, Breanna Vinozzi.

Both moderators will join us in a minute after we begin with our first excerpt.

There were five candidates on the set.

In alphabetical order, they were Newark, Newark City Mayor,-Rise Maraca, Jersey City Mayor, Steve

Fullop, member of Congress, Josh Gottheimer, member of Congress, Mikey Cheryl, and former

State Senate President, Steve Sweeney.

Because there were five candidates, and we have the luxury of time on this show, yay, we'll

go beyond the usual sound bite length for some of our excerpts,

beginning with this. Here is about a three-minute exchange that involves Mayor Baraka,

Mayor Fuller, and Congresswoman Cheryl. It begins with Brianna Vinozzi's question to Baraka

about the incident at the ICE detention facility in Newark on Friday.

Mayor Barack, it's no secret.

You were arrested on Friday by Homeland Security for allegedly trespassing.

The Congress members you were with, along with yourself, have denied that accusation.

We're not here to debate exactly what happened.

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