So much for civility.
President Donald Trump will address Congress tonight – for the first time during his Second Term – and at least one member of the New Jersey House Delegation will be skipping.
Democrat Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D, NJ-11), a 2025 candidate for governor, is sitting it out according to a report from Joey Fox of The New Jersey Globe. Sherrill is reportedly complaining that the president’s planned address will ‘degrade democracy’:
Newsy: @RepSherrill will be skipping Trump’s address tonight, saying that she “believe[s] our democracy is degraded when these rituals are exploited in the service of outright lies, attacks on our allies, even attacks on our own citizens.”
— Joey Fox (@joeymdfox) March 4, 2025
Axios reported earlier Tuesday that some Democrats plan to disrupt the Capitol speech and “a wide array of props — including noisemakers — has also been floated.“
For her part, Sherrill who hails from the Leftist New York suburban outpost of Montclair has moved steadily further left after her district became “bluer” during the post-Covid redistricting process but she did skip the Laken Riley Act vote presumably in order to avoid having to vote against it (and the harm it could cause a hypothetical general election gubernatorial campaign).
President Trump’s address is scheduled for 9:00 p.m. ET tonight (Tuesday 3/4).
The major networks – ABC, CBS, NBC – and the cable networks (Fox News, CNN and MSNBC) plan to carry it live.
