It’s official: Assemblywoman Beth Sawyer (R-3) will challenge her ex-running mate State Senate Ed Durr (R-3) in this June’s Republican primary.
“I filed to run for State Senate today. The results of last year’s election demonstrated that candidates do matter,” Sawyer explained to Save Jersey after she filed. “Ed Durr has proven himself unsuitable for office and will not be re-elected. If we let him run in November, he will pull the entire Republican ticket down with him. I have too much invested in this community to allow that to happen. I am the only candidate who can defeat the Democrats. As your Senator, I will fight as hard for the people of Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties as I did in the Assembly.”
Better known as “Ed the Trucker,” Durr and his running mates (including Sawyer) defeated Steve Sweeney and his fellow LD3 Democrat incumbents in 2021 in a political shocker for the ages. Sawyer and Durr never quite got along, however, and the divides have only deepened over the past two years.
Sawyer’s plan to run against Durr and help field a slate of county office challengers, too, was first reported by The New Jersey Globe.
LD3 and LD4 are both GOP primary battlegrounds this fall; the internal conflicts engulfing the respective districts threatens to tear the Gloucester GOP apart and potentially give Machine Democrats a chance and recapturing previously lost territory….
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