Is anyone focusing in on Election 2025 aside from insiders?
We can guess, but the combatants for New Jersey’s Election 2025 are betting on it.
On Tuesday, radio host and Republican hopeful Bill Spadea dropped an ad titled “Loyalty Matters” that accused rival Jack Ciattarelli of being insufficiently pro-Trump and highlighting just-short-of-endorsing comments Trump made on Spadea’s NJ 101.5 program prior to May’s Wildwood, New Jersey rally.
“I have been a supporter of President Trump from Day One,” said Spadea. “His vision to Make America Great Again and unite our country is exactly what was needed back in 2016 and that remains even more true today. We all witnessed the attempted assassination on July 13. Donald Trump deserves people who stand with him, not weak-kneed politicians who cut and run.”
But in November 2023, Spadea told his radio audience that Trump had “failed” in his quest to challenge the deep state and suggested Trump represented the GOP’s past.
Spadea’s own changed feelings on the 2024 nominee didn’t stop Trump from praising the 2025 hopeful whose general consultant – Bill Stepien – served as the former president’s 2016 campaign manager and White House political director
“You’ve had my back from the beginning. I know all about it. That’s why I’m talking to you. I turn, I turn down plenty of requests, I will tell you. But you’ve had my back, and I really appreciate it,” Trump told Spadea. “You are fantastic.”
A representative of the Spadea campaign confirmed that the ad is presently only running in a digital format online.
Here’s the script:
Newscaster: Today, Jack Ciattarelli called Donald Trump a charlatan and an embarrassment.
Jack Ciattarelli said he would not vote for Trump and demanded the Trump withdraw and be replaced by Mike Pence or Paul Ryan.
Ciattarelli called Joe Biden our legitimate President.
Spadea: Loyalty matters to President Trump.
President Trump: Bill, you’ve had my back from the beginning and I really appreciate it.
Spadea: Ciattarelli… he’s a fake Republican who turned his back on President Trump.
Not me. I’m a real conservative. Tough on immigration and will cut taxes. As your Governor, I will put you and New Jersey first!
