On Sunday, the Garden State’s governor talked politics and budgets with Jake Tapper. The GOP, he says, needs “to get back to our brand . . . less government, lower taxes, less spending, and commonsense regulation that grows private-sector jobs.”

When pressed to give his take on MTV’s Jersey Shore, a reality-television program, the governor called it a “negative” for his state: “It takes a bunch of New Yorkers, who are — most of the people on Jersey Shore are New Yorkers — takes a bunch of New Yorkers, [and it] drops them at the Jersey shore, and tries to make America feel like this is New Jersey.”