Oh Nellie! The bad news is piling on for Pou.
The bad news keeps building for clueless Nellie Pou! She’s done such an abysmal job since coming to Congress, she even has her own party fed up with her.
And it’s no surprise that Nellie is taking heat from both sides, as she’s spent her time in Congress voting to raise taxes, leave the border wide open, and put criminals over New Jerseyans.
“If there’s one thing New Jerseyans on both sides of the aisle can agree on, it’s that they deserve better than clueless Nellie Pou. Pou has done nothing but vote against New Jerseyans since coming to Congress, and voters are fed up.” – NRCC Spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole
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First-term NJ congresswoman facing intensifying attacks from both sides
New Jersey Monitor
Sophie Nieto-Munoz
August 26, 2025
Rep. Nellie Pou, a Democrat who won her first election to Congress in 2024 even as her district swung to the right, is facing increasing attacks from progressives and Republicans as she gears up for her first reelection fight next year.
Republicans believe Pou, who succeeded Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. after Pascrell died last August, is the most vulnerable House Democrat in New Jersey, and have targeted her over her votes against GOP spending bills and for her opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Progressive activists, meanwhile, are criticizing her for joining other Congress members on a recent trip to Israel paid for by a pro-Israel lobbying group.
Micah Rasmussen, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics, noted that incumbents are easiest to topple during their first reelection campaigns, and Republicans have a slim majority in the House of Representatives that they want to retain after next year’s midterm elections.
Rasmussen added that Pou’s vulnerability was exposed last November when she won her election by a relatively small margin. Pou defeated Republican Billy Prempeh by five points. The last time Pascrell sought reelection in a presidential election year, he defeated Prempeh by 34 points.
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The 9th District, which includes parts of Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic counties, has historically been a solidly Democratic one. But Trump won the district by about one point (in 2020, Biden won it by nearly 20 points), a win fueled in part by support from Latino voters. The district is 41% Hispanic, census data says.
Pro-Palestine protestors who gathered near Pou’s office last week demanded she stop taking money from pro-Israel lobbyists and sign on to the Block the Bombs Act. That bill would block the transfer and sale of certain U.S. weapons to Israel unless Israel provides assurance that it will comply with U.S. and international human rights laws.
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Meanwhile, the attacks on Pou from Republicans are relentless. The National Republican Congressional Committee sent 11 press releases in the first three weeks of August attacking Pou as an “out-of-touch” Democrat, “clueless,” and a supporter of the far-left.
“Pou won’t be squatting in this Trump-won district much longer,” one says.