“If I enact changes to the tax code in partnership with the Legislature that accomplish the exact same thing as this program, and those enactments benefit and provide opportunity to all businesses, there’s no longer a need for that program," the Republican gubernatorial candidate tells NJBIZ.

Although the practice has been legal in New Jersey since 2018 for professional leagues - and seen billions of dollars in wagers - state law still prohibits bets from being placed in the state on university teams and games.

A new Fairleigh Dickinson University poll finds that 48% of New Jersey voters would pick the incumbent, while 33% said they would select former Assemblyman Jack Ciatterelli for the state's highest office. That’s amid a slide of Gov. Phil Murphy's overall approval into lukewarm territory as the state moves away from the pandemic that lifted his ratings last year.

Jack Ciattarelli won the Republican nomination, shaking off two pro-Trump candidates in the primary, engineer Hirsh Singh and pastor Philip Rizzo, campaigning on a more moderate conservative agenda.

Fifty-six percent of voters said they would pick Gov. Phil Murphy for a second term if the election was held today, compared to just 24% who favored former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican frontrunner.

Hetty Rosenstein - who was referred to by the governor as “a force of nature for organized labor” in the state - will be a senior advisor for his reelection campaign as he squares off against the presumptive Republican nominee former state Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli in November.