Edward Durr is a blue-collar truck driver for a furniture store in South New Jersey. In an incredible David v Goliath political upheaval, Durr decided to run for office against the most powerful Democrat in the New Jersey Senate, and it looks like Edward Durr is going to win. {Direct Rumble Link}
New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney was a likely candidate to become the Democrat candidate for governor in New Jersey, as he has deep political connections and decades inside the Garden State political machine. However, Edward Durr was fed up with the ridiculous COVID dictates from the governor’s office, and the non-response from any political office to push back against the nonsense. So, he decided to take a stand.
Specifically, because he knew his neighborhood was frustrated with the politics of COVID and the manipulative rules, Edward Durr decided the district needed another option and ran against Sweeney for the State Senate seat. Mr. Durr has stunned the political establishment with a genuine grassroots campaign that has likely defeated the second most powerful office holder in New Jersey. WATCH:
(Via Politico) “I kept telling myself and telling people I was going to do it, but in the back of my mind I was like, ‘You know, how am I going to beat the Senate president?” said Durr, who ran unsuccessfully for Assembly in 2019 and has never held elected office.
But Durr said that as he sat in his living room with his family Tuesday night as the results rolled in, it dawned on him that there was a decent chance he‘d soon be a member of the state Senate. “My daughter was sitting next to me. She laughed at me and said ‘Dad, you’ve got tears running down my face,” Durr said Wednesday morning.
Durr, a 58-year-old father of three and grandfather of six who grew up in South Jersey and lives in Logan Township, estimates he spent less than $10,000 on the race. By contrast, in 2017, when the New Jersey Education Association, state’s largest teachers union, was feuding with Sweeney, it spent about $5.4 million to take him out, yet he still won by 18 points.
This was a far different electorate, with Republican districts and those with large blue collar populations turning out in droves for Republicans.
It wasn’t just Sweeney. Durr’s Assembly running mates, Bethanne McCarthy Patrick and Beth Sawyer, appeared on track to defeat incumbents John Burzichelli and Adam Taliaferro (both D-Gloucester).
Durr said Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s coronavirus executive orders, vaccine and school mask, unemployment benefits snafus and a general distrust of the South Jersey Democratic machine that has dominated the region for years all contributed to his strong performance.
Sweeney, Durr said, “never challenged” Murphy during the pandemic.
“You have the debacle of unemployment. The masking of the kids in school. You have Senator Sweeney trying to take away peoples’ medical freedom rights,” Durr said. “I think the perfect storm was that he stepped into a pile of you-know-what and couldn’t get out of it because he didn’t know which way to turn. I just tapped into the right focus.” (Read More)
I don’t blame leftists for being leftists any more than a snake for being a snake. Let us never forget we are in this nightmare because the GOP is also a den of vipers!
This proves the bottom up plan of grass roots Republicans works, no 3rd party needed. A truck driver with no political experience using a couple of thousand dollars of his own money takes out the 2nd most powerful Democrat in NJ who spent around 750,000 dollars. I still remember the old saying I learned in typing class in the early 6o’s NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY. At this time GOOD WOMEN need to be included as well.
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crises, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
Thomas Paine – The Crisis
Indeed, I esteem this man who entered the battle on the behalf of all of us.
Absolutely!!
“New Ballots just found”– the Cheat goes in
Too late. They shouldn’t count.
Let’s go Brandon!!!!!!!!
God bless Durr for his continued faith in the system.
Back when the school-focused mandates started surfacing, even as hypotheticals, I opined going after the kids was the worst mistake the Communists could make. It appears to be turning out that way, here at the ballot box. Let’s see how things go at the jury box as that jury is still out for now.
I hope you all enjoy reading this (for those who haven’t seen) as much as I did… a man with a can do attitude for US! How inspiring is this… America has had some wins lately, Edward Durr included. Have faith… perhaps this will turn out to be the
“The Great American Reset”. Decency, strength, and Honor may be ahead for all of us who choose to follow the right side of history. God Bless Donald J. Trump in his new endeavor:
by the 45th President Donald J. Trump
October 26, 2021
Last week, I announced the creation of a major new company that will challenge the dominance of the Big Tech giants and Big Media bosses. Today I want to explain more about what I am doing and why. For me, this endeavor is about much more than politics. This is about saving our country.
America has always been a nation of smart, spirited, and independent people who take pride in thinking for themselves. We admire those who aren’t afraid to speak their minds, or go against the tide. Yet suddenly, we find ourselves being censored and dictated to by a small group of self-righteous scolds and self-appointed arbiters of what everyone else is allowed to think, say, share, and do.
Nowhere is this censorship more dangerous and brazen than on social media, the public square of our times. We have seen renowned medical doctors being banned from platforms for contradicting “health authorities” or questioning the political narrative of the moment. We’ve seen scientists blacklisted for sharing evidence that the pandemic began in a Chinese lab. We’ve seen vital reporting about Joe and Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings—information that voters needed and deserved to hear—ruthlessly suppressed and erased from the internet just weeks before a presidential election. And as everyone knows, we’ve seen a sitting president of the United States effectively silenced by a small oligarchy of tech titans and “mainstream” media corporations.
The corruption of these platforms cannot be ignored. We have fallen far down the “slippery slope” of censorship in our country, and the topics that Americans are increasingly forbidden to debate are among the most important issues of our day.
This wildly aggressive censorship and “cancel-culture” is not only un-American—it has direct, real-world consequences. Most obvious are the many catastrophes unfolding under the current administration: the calamitous Afghanistan withdrawal, the disaster at the Southern Border, runaway inflation, and the multi-trillion-dollar socialist spending nightmare, just to name a few. In a country that had free speech and a free flow of information, none of this would ever have happened—and no one understands that better than the people doing the censoring.
Yet the silencing and cancellation also affects our country in more subtle, but equally destructive, ways. How many Americans no longer trust a word they hear from their leaders, media, or public health officials, because the one thing they know for certain is that they are not getting the full story? How many ordinary citizens have sadly come to resent their neighbors, feeling that they now live in two entirely different realities? And how many millions of Americans silently oppose so much of the nonsense being inflicted on us, but see the heavy hand of the cancelers, and conclude that their voice can make no difference, or that the cost of speaking up is just too high?
The new age of censorship is a disaster for our country. Things were far better in the days when we had our debates fiercely and openly, and then we could move forward together, as Americans, with both sides knowing that their voice, and their best arguments, had been heard.
The more I looked into this problem, the more I realized that to restore free speech, a major new platform would have to enter the market, with an ironclad commitment to protecting vigorous debate from all sides. But since it is both hard and expensive to build a new platform totally independent of Big Tech’s infrastructure, it would have to be an extremely well-funded, multi-year undertaking. In addition, such a platform would need the ability to rapidly attract millions of users, welcoming not only Republicans to join, but Independents and Democrats as well.
It’s a tremendously difficult set of challenges—and I realized I might be the only person in America with the megaphone, the resources, the experience, and the desire to make it all happen. So with the same “can-do” spirit that has always allowed Americans to persevere, that is exactly what I am doing.
To take on Big Tech censorship, we are creating a “Big Tent” platform: Truth Social. We are inviting people of all political stripes, and all different viewpoints, to come and participate once again in the great American debate. That’s what our country is supposed to be about. Unlike with the Big Tech platforms, there will be no shadow-banning, throttling, demonetizing, or messing with algorithms for political manipulation. We will not be treating users like lab rats for social experiments, or labeling alternative views as “disinformation.” We will not silence our fellow citizens simply because they might be wrong—or worse, because we think that Americans “can’t handle the truth.”
It will be as free, vibrant, lively, and diverse as America itself. And Truth Social is only the beginning of our plans. The Trump Media and Technology Group will also be launching an on-demand video streaming service that competes with the increasingly “woke” and politicized ‘entertainment’ programming created by Big Tech and Big Media players. TMTG also sees opportunities to create “cancel-proof” alternatives in other key areas ranging from web services to payment processing.
In the end, a small number of powerful people who all think the same and wish to silence anyone who thinks differently cannot be trusted to control almost every major media, technology, and entertainment company in America. I am determined to break their chokehold over the voices of the American People—not just for myself and my own supporters, but for the United States of America!
This statement reminds me of one of Trump’s campaign speeches –
This is what democracy is about. There was never supposed to be an entitled class of people who control everything. This type of corruption must be brought to an end.
Power to the people.
Overnight where 40,000 ballots were awarded to Democrat Murphy
in Bergen County after the county was reported as 100% reported.
Strange how that works….
Camden Co, right? There’s your answer.
Ocean wrote, “Bergen County”. It is in the northeast corner of NJ. There is a petition to conduct a full forensic audit of this election.
Edward, the giant slayer.
New Jersey must conduct a full forensic audit of this election.
Conduct forensic audits of election tabulation machines, software,
and paper ballots.
It seems that 12,000 votes have been ” found ” in one county in NJ . Hoe many of these ” found” votes will go for Sweeney ? Yes, that’s correct, 100 %
Always “FOUND”. Were they “LOST”???
If so, HOW?
Amazing how stupid and gullible people are?
HOW do you LOSE 12,000 ballots??????????
Hide them, yes, I get that, but LOSE and FIND????
And yes, it will be likely 90% + will go to the Dems..funny how that always works out, huh???
I’ve worked polls.
You don’t LOSE ballots…..
You hand a ballot out.
The voter takes the ballot and completes.
Said ballot is THEN scanned….DONE……ballot counted, ballot counter ticks up and ballots handed out and polls records AGREE and SYNC.
So, tell me HOW you LOSE 12,000 ballots?
It depends on if we have any conservatives in the state with integrity and courage.
EXACTLY.
It means there are cheats, criminals and liars working and that, likely be design.
There are always to be Dems and Repubs working a poll.
I’ve seen in the day, the ‘try’ to get warm bodies to work, those that had no clue what they were doing, other than being there. We weeded those out quickly and they were not approved.
IF the republican Judge in that precinct is worth a darn, he/she is like a hawk and constantly on watch for shenanigans going on or being tried OR if they are a competent judge, unlikely to be tried and tested.
There are checks and balances at the polls, simply need to be followed.
Watch your Six, Senator Durr…..
These are democrats you’re dealing with, remember!
It ain’t over yet. Right now they’re scrambling to “find lost ballots” so they can screw this guy. Ditto for the VA Governor’s race.
GOOD MAN!
It isn’t over until 105% of the votes are counted. and also the votes in containers in L.A.
The people deserve a voice. Praise God for this man and this victory. Amen
Not so fast. Just as expected, behold, the Democrats just found 12,000 uncounted ballots today! Who would have known. Sweeney will be declared the winner soon enough, and the Republicans will lay down like the dogs they are.
https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/whiteboard/2021/11/04/sweeney-not-ready-to-concede-1392307