VOTE NOW: Should Gov. Murphy have come home after the earthquake?

One congressman is asking the tough question. What's your take?

Gov. Murphy was as at a Democrat governors convention during last week’s earthquake and its aftermath Friday, giving only remote interviews and statements

If you ask Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) this absence was unexcused.

"He wasn't at a world summit for world peace — I mean he was at a Democratic convention, basically an association of Democratic governors who were probably working on ways to make more Democratic governors," Rep. Van Drew said.

"It would have been a nice symbol if he came back and said, You know what? Everything's going to be OK. I want to personally review the infrastructure myself, see what the team has done," Van Drew said. "And then he could have gotten back to the convention, the association that he was at.”

FOX News indicated that the quake might have been felt by more than 42 million people in 14 states from Maine to North Carolina. More than two-dozen aftershocks have been felt since with more than 152,000 Americans reported feeling shaking to the USGS.

On Saturday, the governor wrote on X that the state's emergency operations center was deactivated on Saturday morning. The rest of his X feed were merely retweets.

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