Democrat gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill said she would push for New Jersey classrooms to mandate LGBTQ curriculum with no parental opt-out if she were to become governor. Sherrill made the comments during a primary debate in May, but the controversial remarks have resurfaced in the days leading up to the New Jersey gubernatorial election between Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli on November 4. “I believe that parents have the right to oversee their children’s education,” Sherrill said. “I would push an LGBTQ education into our schools. Parents have a right to opt out of a lot of things, but this is not an area where they should be opting out, because this is an area of understanding the background of people throughout our nation.” New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill says children should have to learn LGBT curriculum and parents should not be able to opt-out their children. This is deranged. Sherrill wants to push gender ideology onto your kids. Vote Jack Ciattarelli.pic.twitter.com/pUdvIRzOpe — Paul A. Szypula ?? (@Bubblebathgirl) October 29, 2025 Notably, Sherrill has also refused to condemn the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) for its promotion of woke drag culture inside the classroom for state public school educators. The story was first covered by The Daily Wire on Monday. The NJEA is behind one of the top-spending political groups in the state and strongly endorsed Sherrill last month. In the days following the election, the NJEA is set to host an event to celebrate “the vibrant world of drag” for public school teachers. Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. The event, called “Drag is not a Crime: The Past, Present, and Future of Drag,” is part of the NJEA Consortium program, an initiative to boost diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a focus on minority communities in K-12 classrooms across New Jersey. The Ciattarelli campaign, however, told The Daily Wire that the NJEA and Sherrill don’t care about education and teachers. “Drag might not be a crime, but looking the other way while 80% of third graders in some of New Jersey’s schools can’t read at grade level should be,” a campaign strategist for Ciattarelli said. “The NJEA and far-left politicians like Mikie Sherrill could care less about education or teachers,” the statement continued. “The NJEA’s core mission is preserving political power, pushing an extreme ‘woke’ agenda on young children, and propping up out-of-touch politicians like Mikie Sherrill who vote against parental rights.” “When Jack Ciattarelli is Governor, parents are back in charge and the NJEA is in timeout,” the strategist added. Ciattarelli responded to the report on X, too, posting, “I’m all about live and let live, but why are drag queens a featured event at a public school teacher’s conference and what does it have to do with educating our children?! This is Mikie Sherrill’s NJ, not mine.” “When I’m Governor, we’re getting back to the basics in our public school curriculum, leaving all this other subject matter to the kitchen table where it belongs – where parents can decide if and when to discuss with their children,” he added. “It’s time!” New Jersey’s @Jack4NJ reacts to our @realDailyWire story from Monday, on @MikieSherrill’s largest donor the NJEA hosting a DRAG event for teachers two days after the election. The election is in less than a week. Read it here: https://t.co/NtZOxgDigX pic.twitter.com/2p0oYbbEVW — Brent Scher (@BrentScher) October 30, 2025 The race between Sherrill and Ciattarelli has only tightened in the days leading up the election, with some polls showing a statistical tie. Related: NJ’s Top Teacher Union, A Massive Donor To Mikie Sherrill, Set To Host Woke Drag Event For Teachers

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The Ohio redistricting committee has reportedly struck a deal just in time for an Oct. 31 deadline to submit new congressional maps. That scoop comes from Punchbowl’s Thursday morning newsletter, with that deal reportedly being reached “after hours of late-night deliberations.” This allows the redistricting committee to move along with the process. If a deal had not been reached, redistricting would go back to the Republican-controlled General Assembly. GIGANTIC @allymutnick scoop. THE OHIO REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE has struck a deal on a map that would do the following:– Democratic @RepEmiliaSykes will be drawn into a slightly more favorable northeast Ohio district, although it will still be very competitive.– Democratic…— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 30, 2025 Several states have been in the news in recent months over redistricting efforts, including Ohio, especially when it comes to its uniqueness in the process. Unlike other states, Ohio is required to redraw their congressional maps for 2026, as the current maps did not pass with bipartisan support. Ohio’s 15 congressional districts include 10 Republicans and five Democrats. There’s three particularly vulnerable Democrats worth watching, including Reps. Marcy Kaptur in the 9th Congressional District, Emilia Sykes in the 13th Congressional District, and Greg Landsman in the 1st Congressional District. Kaptur and Sykes are particularly vulnerable, though it’s Kaptur and Landsman’s districts who will become redder while Sykes’ district will become more favorable, “although it will still be very competitive,” the Punchbowl newsletter reveals. The Daily Signal reached out to the campaigns for Kaptur, Sykes, and Landsman. That the deal appears to have been reached is a “shocking development,” Punchbowl noted. “Both parties expected the commission to reach a stalemate and that redistricting would revert back the state’s GOP-controlled legislature.” Punchbowl also offers some insight as to why it looks like there’s been an agreement, with a mention of how it could have been worse, especially for the three Democrat members: This new map proposal is certainly worse for Democrats. But it’s not as bad as it could be. In a very strong Democratic year, Kaptur, Landsman and Sykes could win reelection. Republicans on the Ohio Redistricting Commission showed Democrats a map that would doom Kaptur, Sykes and Landsman, according to a source close to the process, and they said the state legislature would introduce that 13R-2D map on Nov. 1 if no deal was reached by the commission. The calculus. This map is a safe bet for Democrats. Two seats get worse, but one gets slightly better. Why would they hesitate to take it? The redistricting commission map is final. A legislature-enacted map could be frozen for 2026 and put before the voters in a referendum if Democrats can collect some 250,000 signatures in 90 days. What would have happened without an agreement? Not only the likelihood of lawsuits, but also a referendum effort. “But Democrats were able to successfully leverage the prospect of a referendum campaign. For their part, Republicans dangled the threat of pushing through a less favorable map if Democrats rejected their offer,” Punchbowl mentioned. “Meanwhile, Republicans accepted a worse map than they may have had otherwise in exchange for avoiding the uncertainty of a referendum,” the newsletter also shared. Although the ballot initiative is described as a “high-risk, high-reward” option, it’s worth reminding that Ohio voters just last year rejected creating a supposedly independent commission to get involved in the redistricting process. State Rep. Brian Stewart, a Republican who was appointed by Speaker Matt Huffman, has led the commission and posted about it over X on Wednesday, noting that they met last week. The Daily Signal also reached out to Stewart for comment. It was my honor to serve as Chairman of the Ohio Redistricting Commission for its first meeting last week. There are 3 different paths to approving a congressional map for Ohio, and this Commission is the second step in that process. It’s a privilege to be appointed by Speaker… pic.twitter.com/AB5LcYhhnJ— Brian Stewart (@BrianStewartOH) October 29, 2025 The commission will meet Thursday at 4 p.m., as Punchbowl and other outlets such as The Columbus Dispatch have noted. But again, Ohio is not the only state earning headlines over redistricting. In California, voters next week will decide on a redistricting ballot measure heavily promoted by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom. Virginia Democrats also are eager to redistrict the commonwealth, where there are six Democrats and five Republicans representing Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives. This is despite voters in 2020 overwhelmingly passing a ballot initiative approving an independent commission. For all of this eagerness for redistricting from Democrats, it’s worth reminding, as Vice President JD Vance and Club for Growth co-founder David McIntosh have pointed out, Democrats have tried these tricks for years, and there’s a need for Republicans to fight back. The post Is Ohio Moving Along in the Redistricting Process? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Minneapolis voters will cast their ballots for mayor Tuesday, but the ranked-choice voting system they will use makes it unlikely Americans will know who won the race on Election Day. While four candidates took part in debates, the race seems likely to come down to two: current Mayor Jacob Frey and democratic socialist Omar Fateh. A Minnesota insider who spoke to The Daily Signal on condition of anonymity said that while Minnesota is about evenly split between Republicans and the state’s version of the Democratic Party—the Democratic-Farmer Labor Party—in Minneapolis, “there’s only two parties, the DFL and the Democratic Socialists.” Fateh won the DFL endorsement in a July convention, but Frey’s campaign successfully appealed the decision, and the DFL revoked the endorsement in August. 1. Jacob Frey Frey has served as Minneapolis’ mayor since 2018. A practicing Reform Jew, Frey was born and raised in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington, D.C. He won election to the Minneapolis City Council in 2013 and served one term before becoming mayor. During Frey’s tenure, Minneapolis transitioned from a “weak mayor” system (with a stronger city council) to a “strong mayor” system, giving Frey veto power. Frey vetoed eight pieces of legislation in 2024, notably a resolution calling for the U.S. to stop funding Israel after its response to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks; and a minimum wage for ride share drivers, a proposal Fateh supported. Frey is running on opposing the Trump administration, particularly on LGBTQ issues, abortion, and immigration enforcement. He pledges to build 12,000 new housing units. He touts a 33% decrease in unsheltered homelessness since 2020, though he supports “harm reduction” programs that do not require recipients to get clean from drug abuse. A pro-abortion activist, Frey served as a model for a Planned Parenthood campaign in February 2020. 2. Opposing Police Abolition Following the death of George Floyd in May 2020, protesters demanded the abolition of police. President Donald Trump faulted Frey for insufficiently responding to that summer’s violent riots. While Frey supported reforms to emphasize non-police responses, he warned that calls to abolish the police led to crime spikes. During a debate Monday, Frey called for more police, even while celebrating his program to build out non-police “violence interrupters” in the city. He said Minneapolis shootings had decreased “because of work that we have done in partnership with community, working with moms and grandmoms to sort out difficult situations before they arise.” 3. Omar Fateh Like Frey, Fateh grew up in the Washington, D.C., area. He ran for school board in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2015. The son of Somali immigrants, he became the first Somali American and first Muslim to serve in the Minnesota Senate after winning a 2020 election. A self-declared democratic socialist and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, Fateh is running on a platform of raising taxes “to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share.” He champions “environmental justice.” Days ago, I became the first Somali American & democratic socialist candidate to be DFL endorsed for the MN senate. I need your help to become the first senator. I don’t take money from corporations or their lobbyists. I need your financial contribution https://t.co/X7ZkNlWxix— Omar Fateh (@OmarFatehMN) May 11, 2020 Fateh has taken credit for the Minnesota State Promise Plan, which covers college tuition for students from households that make less than $80,000 per year, and for a bill to secure a minimum wage and worker protections for Uber and Lyft drivers. Critics faulted him for using aggressive tactics to pass the rideshare bill, as the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported. At the end of the 2024 legislative session, Fateh went missing from the Senate for more than 10 hours. Since Democrats controlled the chamber by a single vote, Fateh’s absence stalled business until legislators reached a deal on the rideshare bill. “People were angry with him, but he played a smart card,” Sen. Jim Abeler, a Republican who sits next to Fateh on the Senate floor, told the Star-Tribune. “This guy’s a bare-knuckle fighter,” the Minnesota insider told The Daily Signal. The state senator seems to be leveraging the influence of the small but influential Somali Muslim community in Minneapolis. The Minnesota insider described the Somali community as a “very important voting bloc” that is “not the majority” of the city but extremely influential. Members of this community reportedly went to train with the terrorist group al Shabaab in Somalia and the Islamic State, but law enforcement has partnered with the community to oppose radicalism. Fateh reportedly sent an email to the DFL asking about the process of leaving the party in November 2023. He had reportedly been concerned about a DFL lobbyist and donor who quoted the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks. The post quoted, “Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” Fateh reportedly attacked his fellow lawmakers for failing to denounce the “incredibly vile” post. The Minnesota insider told The Daily Signal Fateh has “established himself as the Somali leader alongside Rep. Ilhan Omar,” a member of Congress known for her leftist views. Fateh’s campaign found graffiti on an office window reading, “Somali Muslim—this warning is no joke.” Authorities are reportedly investigating it as a “terroristic threat.” 4. Fateh’s Police Policy In 2020, Fateh supported an ultimately unsuccessful amendment to Minneapolis’ charter that would have replaced the city’s police force. Fateh’s 2020 campaign website stated his desire to “dismantle and replace MPD,” the Minneapolis Police Department. His current campaign website, however, calls for “bold and transformative approaches to public safety” and “public safety solutions that supplement traditional policing.” He has repeatedly cited a New York University Law School study in conjunction with Minneapolis, finding that about 47% of calls to Minneapolis police could be diverted to an alternate response. Fateh has called for investments in “a well-functioning Civil Rights Department and independent oversight of MPD, aiming to “build a lawful and trustworthy police force.” During a September debate, Fateh pledged to “honor the city charter’s requirement for at least 700 sworn officers.” 5. Ranked-Choice Voting Minneapolis adopted ranked-choice voting in 2006. Fifteen candidates are on the mayoral ballot, and voters will get to select their first, second, and third choices. On election night, officials use ballot counting machines to report the results of the first-choice votes. If no candidate receives 50% plus one vote, officials will proceed to count the second and third choices, a process that will likely take multiple days. Officials count each candidate’s current vote total, then eliminate the candidates with no mathematical possibility of winning. If a voter selected one of these eliminated candidates as his first choice, the officials will consider his second or third choices. Fateh has allied with two other candidates, Rev. DeWayne Davis and Jazz Hampton, asking his voters to select one or both of them as second and third choices, aiming to block Frey’s reelection. Conservatives find themselves without a good option. Jeff Evans, CEO of the Minnesota Family Council, told The Daily Signal that conservative voters face “a poverty of solutions that actually work for Minnesota’s families and communities,” and he lamented the “downward spiral of progressivism.” Neither the Fateh nor Frey campaigns responded to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. The post 5 Things to Know About the Minneapolis Mayor’s Race appeared first on The Daily Signal.