Seth Grossman WPG Radio Nov 8, 2025. Here is a summary of the topics discussed by Seth Grossman in the audio clip: Why Did Jack Ciattarelli and other NJ Republicans Lose So Badly? A central theme is why Republican candidates like Jack Ciattarelli and Claire Swift lost their elections. The "Trump Factor": One big reason was that the NJ elections were "all about Trump. Trump was extremely unpopular among most NJ voters and that put all Republican candidates in "bind": The would lose a big chunk of voters if the criticized him, but they would lose different voters if they supported him. Jack Ciattarelli and Republicans had no persuasive message. Jack Ciattarelli was too vague. Saying "I'm going to lower taxes" or "I'm going to bring 'affordability" back to New Jersey did not resonate with voters. This was a complete departure with Ciattarelli's stump speech during his Republican Primary campaign. Atlantic County Republican Assembly candidate Claire Swift was even worse. She "praised" Governor Murphy's fake property tax relief programs and described herself as a Republican "who can work with Democrats". She was inviting Democrats to vote for real Democrats and not giving Republicans a good reason to vote for her. Mikey Sherrill's Election Night Victory Speech: She correctly pledged to support the Constitution. She quoted the New Jersey state motto, "Liberty and Prosperity." She or her staff almost certainly read our our website, libertyandprosperity.com. The problem is that America has not had much of a Constitution since 1942. That is when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped limiting the federal government to the powers "enumerated" in Article I, Section 8. Sherrill also misunderstood New Jersey's motto. She implied that government is to provide people with "liberty and prosperity". The true meaning of that motto is that government secures "liberty", that is the "unalienable rights" of each individual. Those individuals then are free to make their own choices to work, save, invest and produce to create prosperity! Economic "Illiteracy" of Young Voters: Young people feel they have "no hope of succeeding" under the current economic system are "absolutely right." He blames: Housing Unaffordability: Seth bought a house in Florida for $100,000 ten years ago now. Now that same house, just a starter row home is worth $400,000. How can a young family starting out afford that? Underlying Causes: Seth attributes this inflation to high real estate taxes (funding public employees) and restrictive zoning laws that make building new homes difficult and expensive. Atlantic City Takeover: There is no need for state government to be running Atlantic City. The only reason the state took over in 2016 was to force local taxpayers to pay off roughly $480 million of illegal debt run up by former Republican Governor Chris Christie. When Atlantic City lost 2/3 of its tax base in 2009 it was required by state law to cut spending and balance its budget. However, Christie was running for President and didn't want to cut wages or employees. And so allowed Atlantic City to illegally borrow more than $80 million a year for nearly six year. The casinos should pay their share of that debt through the Casino Reinvestment Development tax. Better to pay down the debt than to waste in on junk like empty baseball stadiums, train stations and convention halls! Government Shutdown and Obamacare: The big issue of the federal government shut down is that Obama raised the cost of medical care for everybody. However, nobody cared because Democrats subsidized health care insurance for 2/3 of the people so only one third of Americans got clobbered with big increases. Now the subsidies are expiring and the other 2/3 are getting clobbered. But now, the 1/3 who already got clobbered don't care. The Democrats pulled off a classic "divide and conquer" strategy. TRANSCRIPT: SETH GROSSMAN: We don't have time to, cry too much about last week's election because the Democrats are revved up. They are now getting ready to remove, Jeff Van Drew from office and take that seat back for the Democrats. As soon as they get a Democratic majority in the House and the Senate, they will impeach Donald Trump again. So, we only have a year to get ready for that. Meanwhile, the was an interesting thing with the Democratic winner of the election for Governor. I know for a fact that Mikey Sherrill ior someone on her staff looked at our Liberty and Prosperity website. Did you watch her Election Night Victory Speech? It's posted on our website. The first thing Mikey Sherrill said after she thanked her supporters was to remind them how took an oath to support the Constitution when she joined the Navy, and how important the Constitution i to her. And then she reminded all of her supporters that the motto of New Jersey has been Liberty and Prosperity since 1777. She said Liberty and Prosperity has been the motto ov ourstate for almost 250 years and she wants to bring both liberty and prospe
