LYNDHURST - Former Vice President Joe Biden vouched for gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy Sunday, saying the Democratic front-runner knows how to reach those voters who shunned the party last fall.
We shunned the party because they remembered B. Obama . GJK
Biden said Murphy, who, like he did, grew up in a working-class household, could address the fears of those who have seen their jobs move overseas or replaced by automation, the same people who voted for President Donald Trump last fall.
Hiding the years at the old connection to Goldman Sachs and fund raising for Obama. GJK
"There are a lot of people out there who are frightened," Biden told an estimated 1,200 people at the Lyndhurst Recreation Center. "Trump played on their fears. We haven't spoken enough to the fears and aspirations of the people we come from. There's so much we can do. And Phil's spoken to it."
Biden was the featured speaker the get-out-the-vote rally for Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive and U.S. ambassador to Germany, in advance of the June 6 Democratic gubernatorial primary.
"We've got to get up and put one foot in front of another," Biden said as he stood next to Murphy in front of a sea of blue and green signs. "We are no longer going to stand around and wait.''
They left the stage to Bon Jovi's "We Weren't Born to Follow."
Murphy served as finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee and contributed the maximum $4,600 to President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign and $100,000 to his inaugural committee before being tapped as an ambassador.
Biden also vouched for Hillary. GJK
Biden said he traveled to Germany at the suggestion of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) in advance of the 2013 gubernatorial election to urge Murphy to get involved in New Jersey politics.
"I went because I thought, and Frank insisted, that this guy had all the stuff not only to be our ambassador but to be a great political leader for us," Biden said.
Murphy declined to run at that time but has emerged this year as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination to succeed Gov Chris Christie.
The old saw that there is no health care for women without Planned Parenthood. If Obama care was their cure all why are there so many people payin high premiums for poor coverage? GJK
As he took the stage with Biden, Murphy pledged to stand up to Trump, who has moved to defund the women's heath care provider Planned Parenthood, increase the use of fossil fuels such as oil and coal, and cut taxes for wealthy Americans while reducing spending for food stamps, Medicaid and children's health coverage.
The old scare tactics. Have the rich received a tax increase or is the truth that everyone deserves a cut in their tax load? GJK
"We're going to have to deal with a hostile administration coming out of Washington," Murphy said. "We're going to need a governor - and I will be that governor - with a steel backbone who says, 'Mr. Trump, not in New Jersey will you do that.'"
Biden said the race has attracted national, as well as international, attention as one of only two gubernatorial contests this November. The other one is in Virginia.
This is the single most important race in the country in the next three years before the presidential race," Biden said. "The whole country - and without exaggeration, the world - is going to look at it. They're going to see if America bought into this crass and uncomfortable rhetoric or whether we are able to re-establish and reassert who we are."
Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-9th Dist.), who spoke at the rally and is backing Murphy, said he was buoyed by the size of the crowd for Murphy.
"Primaries are usually lightly attended, " Pascrell said. "This is a good sign for Murphy."
A recent Stockton University survey gave Murphy - who has spent $18.4 million on the race, nearly four times as much the other 10 major-party candidates combined - 34 percent in the Democratic primary race.
He was followed by former U.S. Treasury official Jim Johnson with 10 percent and state Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) with 9 percent. The poll had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
Murphy has the endorsement of all 21 Democratic county organizations, giving him the top line in the June 6 primary.
Jonathan D. Salant may be reached at jsalant@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @JDSalant or on Facebook. Find NJ.com Politics on Facebook.
We shunned the party because they remembered B. Obama . GJK
Biden said Murphy, who, like he did, grew up in a working-class household, could address the fears of those who have seen their jobs move overseas or replaced by automation, the same people who voted for President Donald Trump last fall.
Hiding the years at the old connection to Goldman Sachs and fund raising for Obama. GJK
"There are a lot of people out there who are frightened," Biden told an estimated 1,200 people at the Lyndhurst Recreation Center. "Trump played on their fears. We haven't spoken enough to the fears and aspirations of the people we come from. There's so much we can do. And Phil's spoken to it."
He spent 23 years at Goldman Sachs and then served as the U.S. ambassador to Germany. Now he is the Democratic front-runner in this year's New Jersey governor's race.
"We've got to get up and put one foot in front of another," Biden said as he stood next to Murphy in front of a sea of blue and green signs. "We are no longer going to stand around and wait.''
They left the stage to Bon Jovi's "We Weren't Born to Follow."
Murphy served as finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee and contributed the maximum $4,600 to President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign and $100,000 to his inaugural committee before being tapped as an ambassador.
Biden also vouched for Hillary. GJK
Biden said he traveled to Germany at the suggestion of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) in advance of the 2013 gubernatorial election to urge Murphy to get involved in New Jersey politics.
"I went because I thought, and Frank insisted, that this guy had all the stuff not only to be our ambassador but to be a great political leader for us," Biden said.
Murphy declined to run at that time but has emerged this year as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination to succeed Gov Chris Christie.
The old saw that there is no health care for women without Planned Parenthood. If Obama care was their cure all why are there so many people payin high premiums for poor coverage? GJK
As he took the stage with Biden, Murphy pledged to stand up to Trump, who has moved to defund the women's heath care provider Planned Parenthood, increase the use of fossil fuels such as oil and coal, and cut taxes for wealthy Americans while reducing spending for food stamps, Medicaid and children's health coverage.
The old scare tactics. Have the rich received a tax increase or is the truth that everyone deserves a cut in their tax load? GJK
"We're going to have to deal with a hostile administration coming out of Washington," Murphy said. "We're going to need a governor - and I will be that governor - with a steel backbone who says, 'Mr. Trump, not in New Jersey will you do that.'"
Biden said the race has attracted national, as well as international, attention as one of only two gubernatorial contests this November. The other one is in Virginia.
This is the single most important race in the country in the next three years before the presidential race," Biden said. "The whole country - and without exaggeration, the world - is going to look at it. They're going to see if America bought into this crass and uncomfortable rhetoric or whether we are able to re-establish and reassert who we are."
Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-9th Dist.), who spoke at the rally and is backing Murphy, said he was buoyed by the size of the crowd for Murphy.
"Primaries are usually lightly attended, " Pascrell said. "This is a good sign for Murphy."
A recent Stockton University survey gave Murphy - who has spent $18.4 million on the race, nearly four times as much the other 10 major-party candidates combined - 34 percent in the Democratic primary race.
He was followed by former U.S. Treasury official Jim Johnson with 10 percent and state Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex) with 9 percent. The poll had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
Murphy has the endorsement of all 21 Democratic county organizations, giving him the top line in the June 6 primary.
Jonathan D. Salant may be reached at jsalant@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @JDSalant or on Facebook. Find NJ.com Politics on Facebook.
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