Administration of Donald J. Trump, 2025
June 2, 2025
Well, thank you very much, Jack.
And hello, New Jersey. Special place. You know that. I stay there all the time. I live there a lot. And it's been a very, very incredible place to be, as far as I'm concerned.
But we're less than 24 hours away from the start of early voting in the very important primary election to select your Republican candidate for Governor. It's a big deal. It's being watched, actually, all over the world, because New Jersey is ready to pop out of that blue horror show and really get in there and vote for somebody that's going to make things happen.
I'm asking you to get out and vote for a true champion for the people of your State: Jack Ciattarelli. He's been a friend of mine, and he's been a real success story.
Early voting starts tomorrow at 10 a.m. and ends Sunday at 6 p.m., so get out and vote tomorrow morning or anytime this week or make a plan to vote at least on election day. That's another way of doing it. A lot of people like doing it that way best. I sort of do. But vote on election day, Tuesday, June 10. That's June 10.
This year's election for Governor is critical for New Jersey's future. You'll decide whether New Jersey is a high-tax, high-crime, sanctuary State—if you can believe it, a sanctuary State. Nobody wants sanctuary States, including Democrats, actually. But it's very, very much into that mode, and we can't let that happen—with crippling regulations and rampant corruption, or whether Jack Ciattarelli makes the Garden State affordable and family friendly and safe. And you know, it's like "Make America Great Again"; it's make New Jersey great again.
The radical-left Democrats in the race are woke, literally, lunatics who want New Jersey to be a haven for illegal alien gang members, human traffickers, dangerous criminals of all kinds, including murderers, who have been let into our country by Biden and his group of people with their open-border craziness.
We're taking care of it. As you probably heard, we had the safest border in history over the last three months: 99.999 percent.
And if you get 4 more years with somebody that you've been going through—I mean, it's just so sad—your taxes go up, you crush the middle class families, and cause mass—and that's happened—mass exodus of jobs and businesses all throughout the State, while they indoctrinate your children in a public school.
It's a terrible thing that happens to the children. You look in here at all this—I call "transgender for all." And we've ended that.
New Jersey's economy will wither and die, and you'll be living in a nightmare of chaos and crime. And you sort of have that, to a certain extent now, but it's going to be changed, and it's going to be changed fast with Jack.
So Jack is the most experienced and battle-tested candidate in the race. He previously served as the Raritan Borough council president, Somerset County commissioner, and assemblyman for New Jersey's 16th district. Respected by everybody in each of these roles, Jack has fought—and he fought hard—to lower your taxes, deliver relief to New Jersey businesses. A very big tax cutter.
He's also a successful entrepreneur who actually knows how to balance a budget, and he always seems to be able to balance a budget.
Jack will lock in a 1-percent property tax cap—something so important; crack down on violent criminals; liberate New Jersey from illegal alien gangs and savage criminal networks; and give your police support. And we love our police, but they have to have the support and respect that they deserve.
Jack will fight the scourge of anti-Semitism, secure New Jersey's elections with voter ID, end the radical-left war on the suburbs, and fight New York's ridiculous congestion pricing scheme that cost commuters thousands and thousands of dollars. And nobody understands why that happened and how that was allowed to happen.
He'll also stand up to radical teachers unions and champion quality education. And teachers that really do the job, he's going to take care of them, because there's nothing better, nothing more valuable. This is one of the truly cherished groups anywhere in the world, as far as I'm concerned. So kids are going to learn to read, to write, and to love America.
So Jack has what it takes to win. He has my complete and total endorsement. Other people are going around saying I endorsed them. That's not true. Jack Ciattarelli has my complete and total endorsement.
With your help, Jack will have an incredible victory in November and make New Jersey great again.
Remember, early voting starts tomorrow in the primary, and then you get out and you vote. And you're going to vote, I think, at levels that haven't been seen before in New Jersey. It closes on Sunday. And then you go back on election day—if you haven't been able to, you go back election day, which is Tuesday, June 10.
So go out and vote for Jack Ciattarelli. He's really a great guy. He's never going to let you down.
And with that, Jack—[laughter]—I can't do any better than that, Jack, so you get out there and win.
And you take it over.
NOTE: The President spoke at 7:04 p.m. via teleconference from the White House. In his remarks, the President referred to former President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. The transcript was released by the Office of Communications on June 3.
Categories: Addresses and Remarks : New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli, telerally remarks.
Locations: Washington, DC.
Names: Biden, Joseph R., Jr.; Ciattarelli, Jack.
Subjects: Border security; Illegal immigration; New Jersey, gubernatorial election; Teachers; Voter participation.
DCPD Number: DCPD202500654.