WATCH: Josh Gottheimer Asked About New Jersey Gubernatorial Campaign Ad Showing Him Boxing Trump

On Sunday, Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) spoke to CNN's Manu Raju about his campaign to be New Jersey Governor.

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00:00I want to talk about one of the campaign ads that you have run that New Jersey voters are now seeing

00:05across the airwaves made with AI showing you boxing the president. Watch.

00:11In Congress, Gottheimer got the impossible done, passing infrastructure and gun safety laws and

00:16fighting for Jersey to stop Donald Trump's tariffs and chaos. Now he's ready for the big one.

00:22So you're trying to position yourself as the person fighting, but fighting Trump. But this

00:28state, as you mentioned before, it's trending to the right. In fact, a 10 point shift to Trump last

00:34year. So if you do win the nomination next week, do you think that message is what swing voters want

00:40to hear that you're fighting Trump? I think two things, Manu. You heard the first part of what you

00:47played, which is that we actually get stuff done, which this president has failed to do. Right. And

00:52you know, I helped negotiate and pass the infrastructure bill and a bipartisan gun safety bill and expand

00:57child tax credit to help pay for child care. Those are things people in Jersey care about.

01:01But yeah, they want to know that their governor is going to fight when someone comes in and messes

01:06with them, by the way, no matter who it is. And Trump so far has come in and mess with our state.

01:10When you when you gut Medicaid, when you go after education and the Department of Education,

01:14when you go after things we care about and that we value as a state and as a people. Yeah,

01:19they want to know that we're going to stand up and fight. But obviously, as I've got a long record of

01:22doing when you want to work with us, we'll sit down and talk to you. Right. And get things done

01:27and solve problems. But let me be clear, you mess with us, we're going to mess with you back. And

01:31they want to know that someone's not afraid to fight and stand up for us.