#So Much Winning!!!
In case you haven’t followed the story, a New Jersey resident from the Detroit area is making an historical run at consecutive wins on the game show ‘Jeopardy!,’ and is currently in fifth place for most wins at 30 games won, with a total purse so far of $849,603.
Jamie Ding, 33, who was raised in Metro Detroit and has lived in New Jersey since 2016, is an employee of the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Financing Agency who is helping to administer the low-income housing tax credit program.
In his spare time, Ding is continuing his education by pursuing a law degree from Seton Hall Law School. He is enrolled in the Weekend J.D. program.
On March 3, the Jeopardy champ filed a document in federal court, fighting the Trump administrations efforts to obtain New Jersey’s voter rolls.
Ding says he is worried the Trump administration will use the private information to retaliate against residents “who disagree with or speak out against it.”
“Individuals in or aligned with the federal government have demonstrated a willingness to retaliate against people based on their political views,” Ding wrote in the document, filed March 3. “I fear that if they gain access to confidential information contained in voter registration files, they will misuse that information and target perceived enemies.”
Ding wrote in the motion that he is a politically active Democrat who is involved with the New Jersey Leadership Collective, a training program for young progressives.
“I go to political events and donate to causes I care about,” he wrote. “I express my political views openly. I am a Democrat and have been outspoken in criticizing this administration when I disagree with its stances.”
“I believe this administration view immigrants — including naturalized citizens like me — with disdain and distrust,” he wrote.
Ding’s parents left China in 1989 amid political unrest that erupted into deadly violence at Tiananmen Square.
He was born in Australia and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2007, after his family moved to Tennessee, then to Michigan.
Watch below the brief interview with winning Democrat champion Jamie Ding on Friday’s Good Morning America.
Here are the top 10 Jeopardy champions:
- Ken Jennings, 74 games, 2004
- Amy Schneider, 40 games, 2022
- Matt Amodio, 38 games, 2021
- James Holzhauer, 32 games, 2019
- Jamie Ding, 30 games, current
- Mattea Roach, 23 games, 2022
- Cris Pannullo, 21 games, 2022
- Julia Collins, 20 games, 2014
- Jason Zuffranieri, 19 games, 2019
- David Madden, 19 games, 2005