The weather may be cooling down, but the arrival of fall means something else is starting to heat up… why, it’s the New Jersey governor’s race, of course!

With the election 60-odd days away, the candidates have already been working hard to get themselves in front of voters, on the airwaves and in reporters’ inboxes. Still, experts agree that the real fight between Democratic nominee Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli starts now.

“People are at the beach until after Labor Day, and then the real world comes about and the campaign gets underway in earnest,” said Matt Hale, associate professor of political science at Seton Hall University.

As one of the few major off-year elections, political observers have long pegged NJ’s governor’s race as a tone-setter, going into the follow

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