Unpacking The New Jersey And Virginia Races For Governor
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political correspondent Ashley Lopez, WNYC senior reporter Nancy Solomon, and WAMU reporter Margaret Barthel.
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| 0:22.1 | Hi, this is Mariswick in Houston, Texas, and I am currently trying to build the habit of going on a 30-minute morning walk. |
| 0:33.4 | To help me in this journey, I bring along my geriatric 14-year-old kitty, Slatchie, |
| 0:39.9 | and while she gets to smell the fresh air, see all the birdies, I have some pop down the sidewalk. |
| 0:47.8 | This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:50.2 | 105 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, October 6th. |
| 0:54.6 | Things have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully I will have worked my way up to running outside, and Satchel will still be enjoying the views. |
| 1:05.2 | Enjoy the show. |
| 1:09.6 | My brother walks his cat in L.A. It's a choice. I love it. It's kind of fun. It's not something you'd expect, a cat on a leash. Nope. It gets attention. Yeah. And I'm imagining the morning is the only time you could walk a cat outside in Texas. I have tried many times to do a sort of end-of-day walk. And, yeah, it's just too hot. Too hot. Yeah. Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. And we're joined by WNYC's Nancy Solomon, who also hosts the podcast Dead End, Crime, and Politics. Hi, Nancy. Hi. So today on the show, we are talking about |
| 1:47.3 | two key governor's races, both along the Eastern Seaboard, and we're going to start in New Jersey, |
| 1:52.3 | where early voting begins later this month. Nancy, let's talk about the candidates to succeed |
| 1:58.3 | Democratic Governor Phil Murphy. He's term limited. So who from his party wants to be governor? |
| 2:03.8 | The candidate for the Democratic Party is Mikey Sherrill. She is a three-term Congresswoman from New Jersey. Got elected in 2018 during the Blue Wave election after the Trump election in 2016. |
| 2:19.5 | She's a moderate Democrat, really disciplined about being a moderate Democrat. |
| 2:25.2 | During the primary, she came into some criticism from the progressive wing of the party. |
| 2:31.3 | But she pretty much holds that lane, And she's a, you know, |
| 2:36.2 | former Navy helicopter pilot and a former federal prosecutor. So she kind of brings that moderate |
| 2:42.7 | middle of the road kind of background and her politics pretty much follow suit. And on the |
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