NBC Affiliate: NJ Senate President ‘Set to Lose’ to Republican Trucker who Spent $150 on Race After Retracted Call Claiming Dem Won, No Official Call Yet

Earlier we reported that the New Jersey Globe was forced to retract their call in shame. This comes after they prematurely assumed State Senate President Steve Sweeney had won, without waiting for all the votes to come in. To be fair, this race STILL isn’t being called officially.

Democrat Phil Murphy will probably barely keep his Governor’s seat, but this race looks different to us.

We aren’t making a call ourselves as we are not claiming to be election prediction specialists. However, with 99% of the vote tally now in, Edward Durr has around a 1,000 vote lead.

Durr, a Republican truck driver who spent less than $200 on his race is shocked at the proposition he could be a New Jersey state senator.

However, we think he’ll do great as regular working-class folks tend to do better than people who have been politicians all their lives. As of this writing, the race is Durr: 32,134 and Sweeney: 30,125. NBC Philadelphia isn’t “calling” it but says Sweeney “seems set to lose”. They reported in part:

New Jersey’s longest-running state senate president seems set to lose his seat his seat to a truck driver who spent only $153 on Dunkin and paper fliers over the course of his campaign.

Democratic Senate President Steve Sweeney trailed Republican challenger Edward Durr, a commercial truck driver, by more than 2,000 votes as of Wednesday afternoon, with more than 99% of precincts reporting. The Associated Press has not yet called a winner.

We will monitor this story and update it as needed. We are NOT making an official call… yet.

Spell check correction turns Durr to Burr @FOX29philly pic.twitter.com/CACqUcZlxA

— Steve Keeley (@KeeleyFox29) November 3, 2021