Former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli has been running for governor for the last eight years. He failed to win the Republican primary in 2017 and fell about 84,000 votes shy of unseating incumbent Gov. Phil Murphy in 2021.

Ciattarelli, 63, is a Somerville resident and has spent decades in New Jersey politics. He served in the Assembly for five years, including three as assistant minority whip. He was a Somerset County freeholder from 2007 to 2011 and a Raritan councilman from 1990 to 1995.

He first ran for governor in the 2017 primary, which he lost to former Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno. He announced his intentions for the 2021 election within months.

Ciattarelli made it further in 2021, clinching the nomination but losing in the general to Murphy. Again, he almost immediately began to say he i

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