Many towns with higher property taxes lack other revenue sources, such as businesses or corporate headquarters, said Marc Pfeiffer, a senior policy fellow at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, who studies local government in New Jersey.
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Passaic County was key to Mikie Sherrill’s NJ landslide. How Dems won it back from Trump
Democrats learned from 2024’s stumbles and engaged with voters across the state, he said. The party carried all five New Jersey counties that Trump won last year.
“They figured it out,” Pfeiffer said. “They set their strategy and then executed it.”