US Edition11 Democrats running to keep blue-leaning seat in party hands as GOP House majority on the brink
Eleven Democrats vie for NJ's 11th District seat with over $6 million spent by outside groups, highlighting sharp divides on immigration and U.S.-Israel policy.
- The special primary today features 11 candidates vying to succeed Gov. Mikie Sherrill, with polls closing at 8 p.m. ET and the winner facing unopposed Republican Joe Hathaway in April.
- The vacancy exists because Gov. Mikie Sherrill stepped down after winning the governor's race, and the district has been safely blue since she flipped it in 2018, trending further left after 2022.
- Super PACs and outside groups have deployed nearly $6 million overall, with Tom Malinowski raising more than $1.6 million and facing major attacks, while VoteVets and other PACs support challengers.
- The Democratic nominee will be the odds-on favorite in the general and could shape caucus power, while Gateway Tunnel funding paused by the Trump administration runs out Friday, the day after the primary.
- This primary serves as an early test for national Democratic debates and outside spending strategies, with outside groups like United Democracy Project spending nearly $2.3 million opposing Tom Malinowski, a tactic national Democratic Party strategists may export to other open primaries this year.
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A US House special election in New Jersey becomes a Democratic testing ground
A crowded special election in the New Jersey suburbs Thursday has become an early testing ground for the debates that will shape the Democratic push to retake the US House in this year’s midterms.
Key things to watch in crowded NJ primary for Sherrill’s House seat
Eleven candidates are vying for the Democratic nod to succeed New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) in Congress on Thursday in a contest that’s been defined in large part by an unusually high level of spending. Former Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill, former Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way (D) and Analilia Mejía, who served as a top aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign, are seen as the…
11 Democrats running to keep blue-leaning seat in party hands as GOP House majority on the brink
New Jersey Democratic primary features 11 candidates competing for House seat left by Governor Mikie Sherrill, with former Representative Tom Malinowski among frontrunners.
Hard-fought New Jersey election kicks off a year of Democratic debate over the party's future
The race to fill a vacant, safely blue House seat in New Jersey has set off an expensive competition between different interest groups, political figures and cash-flush super PACs to shape the future of the Democratic Party this year — one district at a time
Special Election Becomes Democratic Testing Ground
“A crowded primary in the New Jersey suburbs Thursday has become an early testing ground for the debates that will shape the Democratic push to retake the US House in this year’s midterms,” CNN reports. “The race to replace now-Gov. Mikie Sherrill has drawn a range of candidates – local elected officials, community advocates, a former paratrooper, a former lieutenant governor and a former congressman.”
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