The “Trump-train” that clogged the Garden State Parkway over the weekend would have been better off travelling to Pennsylvania.

So said Phil Murphy today about a bizarre incident involving motorists in a Donald Trump caravan who stopped their vehicles and blocked northbound traffic Sunday on the Parkway in central Jersey.

“I don’t know what that accomplished,” Murphy said at his briefing today.

That was actually a pretty prescient comment.

After all, how many voters would decide to back a candidate because his obnoxious supporters blocked traffic on a highway?  At least, we have a history in New Jersey of politicians using traffic jams to make a point. But that doesn’t always turn out well. Just ask Chris Christie.

In this latest case, Murphy’s point was that whatever the Trump supporters had in mind, they should have done it in a competitive state like Pennsylvania,  not New Jersey, which is destined to go for Joe Biden.

Other than that, the governor called the exercise “silly” and “dangerous.”

Pat Callahan, who runs the State Police, used such terms as “irresponsible” and “dangerous” to describe the situation. He said no summonses were issued Sunday because the immediate focus of state troopers was to get traffic moving.

But that may not be the end of it.

Callahan said video of the blockade is being reviewed and that it’s possible the drivers of the cars in front of the line, if identified, will be ticketed.

Looking ahead to the election, the governor took a victory lap of sorts when he announced that more than 3.5 million people already have voted. That’s 90 percent of the total number of New Jersey voters four years ago. He said when in-person voting tomorrow is taken into account, the state should set a turnout record.

That’s good news for Murphy, who ordered what very much is a vote-by-mail election because of the pandemic.

He proclaimed that this year is showing that “democracy is made stronger when you open up the process.”

But this is an election, so there was still some partisan flavor here.

The government reiterated that people can vote tomorrow in-person, although their ballot will be provisional, meaning it will be counted only if the individual didn’t already vote by mail.

He criticized some Republicans who have been saying that in-person voting has been banned.

“They are not telling the truth,” Murphy said.

There are two overriding election concerns.

One is when will results be known. Murphy said that in New Jersey, he thinks they will be known fairly soon, given the fact county election workers began counting ballots about a week ago. Normally, that counting began on election day.

And then there’s the potential for election day mayhem, or even violence. Think of the Trump blockade.

The governor doesn’t seem all that concerned.

“I believe we’re going to have a safe and successful day,” he said.