“Here’s the deal, that mandate is going to fall on the governors,” Mr. Biden told voters. Mr. Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive and ambassador to Germany, has embraced the party’s emphasis on focusing resistance to Mr. Trump in more liberal states. Mr. Murphy has made trying to preserve Mr. Obama’s accomplishments a centerpiece of his campaign. Mr. Obama is unlikely to attack Ms. Guadagno, or to break from his practice of not feuding publicly with Mr. Trump, according to several Obama advisers. If Mr. Obama is not expected to take on his successor directly, other visitors to New Jersey have shown no such restraint.

Source: New York Times October 17, 2017 18:13 UTC