Aerial view of Trenton New Jersey Skyline featuring state capitol dome of New Jersey. This looks like the most competitive race, certainly of one of magnitude in the country,” Daniel Bowen, a political science professor at The College of New Jersey, told ABC News. There’s only two governor races in the entire country this year,” Ciatterelli told ABC News in a recent interview. “New Jerseyans know what’s at stake in this election, and we know that the nation is watching,” Sherrill said. Sherrill, for instance, occasionally brought up Trump, and at one point criticized Ciatterelli’s praise of parts of the president’s signature tax and policy bill.