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Today is primary day in New Jersey, one of only two states in the nation, along with Virginia, that hold elections for governor this year.
And in the spotlight in the races for both the Republican and Democrat gubernatorial nominations is the nation’s most powerful and polarizing figure: President Donald Trump.
In the GOP primary showdown, which for months has been a battle for Trump’s support, frontrunner Jack Ciattarelli landed the president’s endorsement a couple of weeks ago.
«I’m asking you to get out and vote for a true champion for the people of your state: Jack Ciattarelli. He’s been a friend of mine, and he’s been a real success story,» Trump told supporters a week ago as he dialed into a tele-rally on the eve of the kickoff of early voting in New Jersey.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli campaigns in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., on June 1, 2025. (Jack Ciattarelli campaign)
Ciattarelli told Fox News Digital after meeting with local GOP leaders at Trump National Golf Club-Philadelphia that the president’s endorsement was «a really big deal» and «The president’s doing very, very well in New Jersey.»
Ciattarelli, a former state lawmaker, is making his third bid for governor. He ran unsuccessfully for the GOP nomination in 2017. Four years later, in 2021, Ciattarelli overperformed as the Republican nominee and came close to ousting the Democrat incumbent, Gov. Phil Murphy, losing by just three points.
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In the contest to succeed Murphy, who is term-limited, surveys suggest Ciattarelli is the frontrunner in a five-person Republican field that includes two other prominent candidates: former businessman and popular conservative talk radio host Bill Spadea and state Sen. Jon Bramnick, a lawyer who served for a decade as state Assembly GOP leader.
Ciattarelli and Spadea spent months trading fire over which of them was a bigger Trump supporter.
«It was certainly disappointing,» Spadea said of Trump’s endorsement of Ciattarelli. «I mean, we made no bones about this. We absolutely wanted the president’s endorsement. Unfortunately, the president endorsed a poll and not a plan.»
Spadea highlighted in a Fox News Digital interview last week that «I have been a supporter of President Trump since he came down the escalator,» in reference to Trump’s announcement of his first presidential campaign in 2015.
«There is no question that I am the commonsense conservative. I am the actual Republican in this primary,» Spadea said.
And Spadea questioned Ciattarelli’s support for Trump, arguing that his rival «has disrespected him (Trump) for the better part of the last eight years. … We thought that that endorsement would have been better served with me.»
After he won the GOP gubernatorial nomination four years ago, Ciattarelli said when asked if he was seeking the then-former president’s endorsement, «There’s only one endorsement I seek, and that’s the endorsement of the voters of New Jersey. That’s the only one that matters.»
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Fast-forward to 2025, and Ciattarelli said «people really appreciate what he (Trump) is doing for New Jerseyans. He’s put a temporary hold on the wind farms off the Jersey Shore. He’s beating up on the New York Democrats over congestion pricing. He supports a quadrupling of the SALT [state and local tax] deduction on our federal tax returns. Those are big deals to New Jersey, and that’s why he’s got so much great support here. And I’m honored to have his endorsement.»
While he lost out on Trump’s endorsement, Spadea said there’s been a silver lining.
«Our supporters are galvanized. Matter of fact, the Tuesday and Wednesday after Trump endorsed Jack, we had a surge, our two best days ever in low-dollar fundraising,» Spadea said. «So it actually has had the opposite effect – our low-dollar surge, our volunteer surge. We’re now knocking on more than 3,000 doors a week, and we’re getting an unbelievable response from the grassroots.»
Spadea said «almost every Trump supporter that we’ve talked to face-to-face on the ground thinks that Donald Trump made a huge mistake» in endorsing Ciattarelli.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Spadea talks with voters at a street fair in Somerville, N.J., on June 1, 2025. (Bill Spadea campaign)
Asked why Trump endorsed him rather than Spadea, Ciattarelli said «the president wants to win. He knows that I provide the best opportunity to win in November.»
«He knows we’re going to raise the necessary money. We’ve raised more money than the other five Republican gubernatorial candidates combined.»
Ciattarelli is a certified public accountant who started a medical publishing company before getting into politics. His fundraising has allowed him to dominate the GOP primary ad wars.
But Spadea, pointing to his media career, said he would be the more electable Republican candidate in November in blue-leaning New Jersey.
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«I built the largest audience in the state: a third Democrat, a third independent, a third Republican. So my appeal is not just that conservative base in the Republican Party. I’m the only candidate running for the Republican nomination that can pull in Democrats and independents,» he said.
The Democratic Governors Association, pointing to the rush by the top two candidates to embrace Trump, has long described the 2025 Republican showdown as a «MAGA battle» and that there’s «extremism in the GOP primary.»
The Democrats have their own primary battle, with six major contenders facing off for the nomination.
They are Reps. Mikie Sherrill and Josh Gottheimer, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, New Jersey Education Association President Sean Spiller and former state Senate President Steve Sweeney.
The primary is one of the first ballot-box opportunities for Democrats to weigh in as the party aims to rebound after last November’s election setbacks, when Republicans won the White House, the Senate majority and successfully defended their fragile control of the House.
Pundits see Tuesday’s primary as a «bellwether» for how the party should push back against Trump’s sweeping and controversial moves since returning to the White House in January.
Like Murphy, who they’re aiming to succeed, the Democrat candidates have heavily criticized some of Trump’s crackdowns on illegal immigration and federal workforce cuts by the recently created Department of Government Efficiency.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is term-limited and prevented from running for re-election this year. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images/File)
But the candidates have also carefully walked a fine line between building on Murphy’s legacy as governor while also calling for change to the status quo at the state capitol in Trenton.
The Republican Governors Association, taking aim at Murphy and his party, has argued that «Democrat rule in Trenton has been a disaster, leading to skyrocketing costs, failed schools, and New Jersey families getting the short end of the stick.»
While New Jersey has long leaned toward the Democrats, Republicans have had success in gubernatorial elections.
«It’s not a blue state when it comes to governor races. Republicans have won six of the last 11. That’s better than 50%,» Ciattarelli said.
Trump, who for years has spent summer weekends at his golf club in Bedminster, held a large campaign rally last year in Wildwood. And he improved from a 16-point loss in the state in the 2020 election to a six-point deficit last November.
Then-former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Wildwood, N.J., on May 11, 2024. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Ciattarelli, looking ahead to the general election campaign, said he’s «really looking forward» to Trump’s «active participation … I think New Jerseyans are anxious to have him on the campaign trail with me and help deliver a win for us in November.»
Meanwhile, the Garden State has frequently made national headlines this year. Newark Liberty International Airport saw multiple FAA system outages this spring, causing travel delays.
Meanwhile, a New Jersey transit strike created more travel mayhem when commuter trains briefly sat sidelined.
And protests by prominent Democrat politicians at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark also put the state in the spotlight. Among those arrested was one of the candidates: Newark’s Baraka.
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In-person early voting ran from June 3 through Sunday. And vote-by-mail ballots must be postmarked by Election Day and received by the county Board of Elections on or before the sixth day after the close of the polls.
Polls open for in-person voting on primary day at 6 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.
Fox News’ Remy Numa contributed to this report.
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Former three-term New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is taking sides in New York City’s Democratic mayoral race.
Bloomberg, the billionaire entrepreneur and media magnate who launched a brief and unsuccessful run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo Tuesday.
The move came two weeks before the June 24 primary in the nation’s most populous city and four days ahead of the start of early voting June 14.
«I care deeply about the future of our city, and since leaving office, it has been difficult to watch its struggles, especially since the pandemic. In sizing up the field in the race for mayor, there is one candidate whose management experience and government know-how stand above the others: Andrew Cuomo,» Bloomberg said in a statement.
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Bloomberg, in his statement, acknowledged past political «differences» with Cuomo during their overlapping tenures as New York City mayor and New York State governor.
But he highlighted that «I also know his strengths as a leader and manager. Of all the candidates, Andrew has the skills our city needs to lead us forward.»
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Fox News confirmed that Cuomo and Bloomberg met Monday to discuss the mayoral race after the former governor stopped by Bloomberg Media’s offices in New York City to record a radio segment.
Cuomo, in a statement, called Bloomberg New York City’s «preeminent statesman» and highlighted that «after 9/11, when New York City was in crisis, torn apart and broken, under Mike Bloomberg’s leadership our city was rebuilt — both our buildings and our soul.»
Former three-term New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg (left) endorsed former New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the 2025 Democratic Party mayoral primary in New York City. (Getty Images)
The former three-term governor, who resigned from office in 2021 amid multiple scandals, is aiming for political redemption as he works to pull off a campaign comeback.
Cuomo has spent the past four years fighting to clear his name after 11 sexual harassment accusations, which he has repeatedly denied, forced his resignation. He was also under investigation at the time for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic amid allegations his administration vastly understated COVID-related deaths at state nursing homes.
Last month, the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into Cuomo after Republicans accused him of lying to Congress about the decisions he made as governor during the coronavirus pandemic.
But thanks in part to his near-universal name recognition among New Yorkers, Cuomo was topping the mayoral polls even before he announced his candidacy March 1.
Bloomberg, a lifelong Democrat, ran for mayor in 2001 and re-election in 2005 as a Republican. He had become an independent by the time he won a second re-election in 2009. Bloomberg later switched his voter registration back to the Democratic Party.
Similar to Cuomo, Bloomberg is no fan of the Democratic Party’s left flank and is also a strong supporter of Israel. That may have been a motivating factor in Bloomberg’s endorsement of Cuomo, which comes as Zohran Mamdani has been rising in the most recent public opinion polls in the mayoral primary race and is now a clear second to Cuomo.
Democratic mayoral candidates Andrew Cuomo, far left, and Zohran Mamdani, second from right, present arguments as Whitney Tilson, second from left, and Michael Blake look on during a Democratic mayoral primary debate June 4, 2025, in New York City. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)
Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assembly member from Queens, is a person of color and a democratic socialist who is originally from Uganda.
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His primary bid was boosted last week after landing an endorsement from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive champion and New York City’s most prominent leader on the left.
With multiple progressive candidates in the primary race, the endorsement of Mamdani by Ocasio-Cortez was seen as a move to unite fractured progressive voters toward a single candidate in an attempt to block the more moderate Cuomo from returning to power.
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Así operan los drones ucranianos equipados con Inteligencia Artificial que atacaron objetivos militares en suelo ruso
La reciente operación militar ucraniana contra cuatro bases aéreas rusas marcó un nuevo capítulo en la evolución del conflicto, al demostrar que Ucrania no solo es capaz de alcanzar objetivos estratégicos más allá del Círculo Polar Ártico, sino que ahora lo hace mediante drones autónomos impulsados por inteligencia artificial (IA).
La ofensiva, denominada Operación Telaraña, fue ejecutada a principios de junio por el Servicio de Seguridad de Ucrania (SBU) y muestra la sofisticación tecnológica de Kiev frente a la invasión rusa iniciada en 2022.
“La guerra está cambiando cada día”, declaró Valeriy Borovyk, director ejecutivo de First Contact, una de las empresas que desarrolló los drones utilizados en la misión. “Drones en enjambre, miniaturización, guiado autónomo… debemos prepararnos para todo esto”, añadió. Su compañía produjo el modelo Osa, un dron de alto rendimiento diseñado para misiones especiales, con un coste cinco veces superior al de los UAV convencionales, según reseño The Financial Times.
Los vehículos aéreos no tripulados utilizados no responden al modelo abierto de los drones FPV tradicionales empleados en el frente, sino que presentan un diseño cerrado que les permite resistir condiciones meteorológicas adversas y ocultar tecnología anti-interferencia. Según el SBU, la incorporación de IA permitió que los drones siguieran su ruta programada incluso tras perder la señal. “Al acercarse y contactar con el objetivo designado, la carga explosiva se activó automáticamente”, indicó el organismo.
Uno de los objetivos alcanzados fue una base aérea situada más allá del Ártico, donde imágenes difundidas muestran explosiones en aviones de largo alcance y columnas de humo cubriendo la pista, en lo que representa uno de los golpes más lejanos efectuados por Ucrania dentro del territorio ruso desde el inicio de la guerra.
Yaroslav Azhnyuk, fundador de The Fourth Law, empresa que también suministra drones al ejército ucraniano, afirmó que tanto Ucrania como Rusia están comenzando a escalar sus capacidades autónomas en el campo de batalla. En particular, destacó el uso de “guiado terminal”, una técnica mediante la cual el piloto selecciona manualmente un objetivo y luego la IA completa el ataque de forma autónoma.
La miniaturización, el bajo coste y la capacidad de operar en entornos saturados por sistemas de interferencia electrónica están impulsando una nueva carrera armamentística digital. Según el Ministerio de Transformación Digital de Ucrania, en mayo se desplegó un nuevo dron portador capaz de volar hasta 300 kilómetros y lanzar dos drones FPV con navegación y guiado autónomo.
Mientras Ucrania innova con limitados recursos, Rusia también ha intensificado su uso de IA militar. Según la inteligencia militar ucraniana (HUR), un dron ruso recientemente capturado incluía sistemas de búsqueda y selección autónoma de objetivos, e incluso utilizaba componentes procedentes de consolas de videojuegos estadounidenses.
La falta de recursos ha impulsado soluciones de emergencia. “¿Por qué Ucrania siempre está encontrando nuevas soluciones? Porque no tenemos otras opciones”, explicó Bohdan Danyliv, responsable militar de la Fundación Prytula, una de las principales organizaciones de apoyo civil al ejército. Desde enero, la fundación ha entregado cerca de 600 drones interceptores de ala fija, con los que se han derribado 247 drones rusos, entre ellos modelos de reconocimiento y kamikazes.
El desafío principal sigue siendo enfrentar a los Shahed, drones de largo alcance de fabricación rusa con tecnología iraní. “Aún no tenemos una tecnología eficaz para interceptar drones como los Shahed”, reconoció Lyuba Shipovich, cofundadora de Dignitas Ukraine, otra organización que apoya con drones y entrenamiento a las fuerzas ucranianas.
A esto se suma el rezago ucraniano en drones de cable de fibra óptica, una tecnología que ha cambiado la dinámica del frente desde que Rusia comenzó a utilizarla en la región de Kursk en 2023. Estos drones evitan las interferencias electrónicas y permiten a los operadores golpear objetivos con precisión desde distancias seguras.
“Cometimos un error”, admitió Oleksandr Yakovenko, director ejecutivo de TAF Drones, una de las mayores firmas ucranianas del sector. “Pensamos que los drones de fibra óptica no serían efectivos ni se usarían a gran escala”. Actualmente, TAF Drones fabrica 10.000 unidades mensuales, pero Yakovenko estima que se necesitarían al menos 70.000 drones de este tipo con alcance de 25 kilómetros para igualar la capacidad rusa.
Mientras las tropas rusas avanzan más rápido en mayo que en cualquier momento desde noviembre, la lucha entre drones tripulados y autónomos, el desarrollo de sistemas de contramedidas y la presión por innovar sin descanso se han convertido en ejes centrales del conflicto.
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