First lady Tammy Murphy's Senate campaign has hit the ground running with endorsements, funding and events, and there has been little push back to her campaign except for some tough words from her opponents like Representative Andy Kim.

But tonight, the first lady is experiencing the first major pressure early in her campaign.

Katie Brennan, the former Phil Murphy volunteer who settled with the governor's campaign over allegations of rape by a staffer, says Tammy Murphy is unfit to run.

Brennan claims the first lady did nothing to support or comfort her when she came forward with her allegations.

And she is not an ally of women.

Senior correspondent David Cruz spoke with Brennan and explores how her comments could impact support for the first lady's campaign.

This is how most of New Jersey got to know me as Mrs. Murphy.

The first lady, and serving in this role is the honor of my life.

But more about that later.

Any candidate for office would envy Tammy Murphy's position.

Most county parties already endorsing her.

Huge financial resources and a built in platform to keep her issues and herself in the public eye.

But if you look closely, there is some drag affecting the campaign.

Take off.

Some high profile women with former ties to the Murphys are giving voice to those who they say still can't speak up.

Given the structure, the political structure in New Jersey.

It is extremely difficult for folks to say how they really feel.

Katy Brennan, the former campaign volunteer whose sexual assault charges rocked the early days of the governor's administration, says Tammy Murphy doesn't deserve support from women, something she says she knows firsthand.

There are ways to support survivors and to and to support the administration simultaneously.

The late great Sheila Oliver, when she was lieutenant governor, the day that my story broke, she called me.

Not only did she call me, she sent security to HMFA to make sure that I would not be harassed and that I would be protected.

There are ways to be supportive of the administration and survivors.

I did not see that from Governor or Tammy Murphy.

Brennan joins Julie Roginsky, the former member of the Murphy campaign leadership team who had this recent assessment of Tammy Murphy.

So you don't consider her an ally to women.

No, I don't consider her an ally to women.

In fact, I consider her a massive enabler of her husband and the men around him who did everything they could to harm women.

The first lady has a record on her work for women's health, but also on the administration's handling of the state's women's prison and on conditions at the Murphy owned women's soccer team.

At the moment, she's ignored Roginsky and had this to say as part of a statement regarding Brennan's comments.

We vowed never to let a situation like that happen again on our campaigns or in our workplace, she said.

We created systemic change on Phil's reelection campaign and have done the same on this campaign.

Throughout his administration and throughout his election campaigns.

Governor and Mrs. Murphy have offered themselves out as a partnership, as a two for one deal.

Right.

That's how they that's how they pitch themselves to voters and to the state.

So I think it is legitimate to ask where Mrs. Murphy has stood on the major questions that they have faced during his time in office.

Tell me how you are uniquely qualified and how your credentials show that out of all of the people in New Jersey, all of the women in New Jersey, it is you that we should be voting for.

The Murphy campaign insists the first lady has wide support amongst women who make up a major portion of party activists and voters.

And until those whose opposition to Tammy Murphy, for whatever reason, feel free to speak their minds, that's going to be the assumption going forward.

I'm David Cruz.

NJ Spotlight News.