How's the first week of President Trump's second term comes to a close.

New Jersey's Republican candidates for governor are taking stock in his agenda and the long list of executive orders that have been issued to deliver on campaign promises.

New Jersey experienced a surge in Republican voting during our November election.

Political analysts say President Trump and his policies will likely play a big role in who voters pick for a new governor next year.

Ted Goldberg spoke with three of the GOP candidates about their support for the president's plans and how they'll navigate New Jersey's more moderate electorate.

The first week of President Trump's second term, he's getting rave reviews from Republicans running for governor.

A-plus.

How often do you give politicians who campaign a certain way?

Then they win.

They give a speech and they talk about what they're going to do.

And then literally the first week they start doing it all.

As President Trump continues to, you know, scale back some of the damage that was done by President Biden's, you know, executive orders.

I think we'll see a difference.

When people see somebody actually doing something.

But that is like a knockout punch.

These three candidates praised Trump's executive orders on immigration, pausing offshore wind and saying the U.S. government recognizes two genders and it can't change from birth.

He's off to a pretty good start, other than what I feel was a pardon that went way overboard and, you know, in essence disrespected police officers.

Senator Jon Bramnick is talking about the blanket pardons for January 6th.

Trump issued more than 1500 of them, defying Vice President J.D.

Vance, who said that violent offenders should not have been pardoned.

There are a lot of Republicans that are so frozen and so afraid that even when a police officer is assaulted with a stun gun or hit with a pole, that they will hold you.

And I get calls or you can't say anything.

Former State Senator Ed Durr and radio host Bill Spadina took a very different tone, saying the pardons were necessary and that the country should move on.

We need to put J6 behind us there.

There was a lot of issues.

One with the the committee itself took the pardons, and if they took a pardon, why did they take a pardon that they didn't feel they'd done anything wrong?

It's not so much the time it would take to go through all of the cases.

It's the timing that get this done on day one, because we've got to move on from January six as a country.

And if you could be a participant in a rally that turns into a kerfuffle at the Capitol and all of a sudden the FBI is on your door, nobody is safe.

Jack, to the rally declined to comment for this story.

Durr and Spadina have competed over who's the Trump beer candidate, while Bramnick says his more moderate record gives him a better chance to win the general election.

What do you think New Jerseyans want from the next governor?

Do they want someone who will stand up?

And even if it's their own party and they disagree with that, or do they want that person to stand up or they do they want that person to be frozen in.

One lane and the other three guys are in the other lane?

I'm a non-establishment guy.

They're all establishment.

So that's the difference.

While yes, two of the other three agree with President Trump right now.

So they say, you know, I'm sure you've seen it where they've disagreed with President Trump.

I'm the only one who's been solidly behind him since day one.

More than half of my audience are women, and women make up a majority of the voters in this state.

And I have seen that they are starting to move toward the Republicans.

As long as the Republicans can deliver a concise, smart, common sense message.

These candidates have until the June primaries to make their pitch to voters with the general election to follow on November 4th.

For NJ Spotlight News, I'm Ted Goldberg.