Sen. George Helmy (D-NJ) has a drastically different assessment of the 2024 race than his former boss, Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ), who called President-elect Donald Trump’s strong performance in New Jersey a “sobering moment.

New Jersey looked more like a swing state in this year’s election than a Democratic stronghold. President-elect Donald Trump had the best performance of any Republican presidential candidate in the state in the last 30 years.

In campaign appearances, the president-elect railed against offshore wind and promised to sign an executive order to block such projects on his first day in office.

We are going to make sure that that ends on Day 1,” Trump said in a May speech. “I’m going to write it out in an executive order. It’s going to end on Day 1."

Opponents of offshore wind energy projects expect Trump to kill an industry he has vowed to end on the first day he returns.