On the list of potential political vulnerabilities, New Jersey ties are rarely a campaign killer; for all the jokes, New Jersey has offered some of the greatest musical, culinary and cultural additions to the country.
But the campaign of John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania, has repeatedly harassed his Republican opponent, Mehmet Oz, for having lived in New Jersey before announcing his campaign in the Keystone state.
In his last such post on Twitter, Mr Fetterman enlisted Nicole Polizzi, a cast member of the ‘Jersey Shore’ franchise better known as Snooki, and a self-proclaimed ‘hot mess on a reality show’ , to berate Dr. Oz for choosing to leave New Jersey “to seek new employment.”
“Personally, I don’t know why anyone would want to leave Jersey,” Ms Polizzi says in the video, which is designed to look like a spot from Cameo, a website that lets users pay for personal video messages from celebrities (and, apparently, Snookis).