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Draeger will replace Duarte as Morris Democratic chair

June 13, 2025 11:45 amJune 13, 2025 5:42 pm

Morris County Democratic Chair Amalia Duarte will not seek re-election and is expected to be replaced by Darcy Draeger, a highly-regarded sheep farmer from Chester who ran two hugely competitive campaigns for a State Assembly seat in a Republican legislative...

Chatham councilman looking at campaign to succeed Sherrill if she’s elected governor

December 4, 2024 9:15 amDecember 4, 2024 5:21 pm

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair)’s campaign for governor of New Jersey is barely two weeks old, but the hypothetical race to succeed her in the 11th congressional district is already starting to take shape. Chatham Borough Councilman Justin Strickland, who was...

Amalia Duarte on the Quraishi decision

March 29, 2024 5:05 pmMarch 29, 2024 5:47 pm

Morris County Democratic Chair Amalia Duarte released the following statement today after U.S. District Court Judge Zahid Quraishi granted a preliminary injunction that ends the organization line for the 2024 primary election and mandates office-block voting: “Today is a good...

Andy Kim overwhelmingly wins Morris Democratic convention

March 18, 2024 7:48 amMarch 18, 2024 9:26 am

Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) has overwhelmingly won the Morris County Democratic convention, ratcheting up his ninth convention win in his bid for New Jersey’s U.S. Senate seat. Kim defeated First Lady Tammy Murphy 457 votes to 57, or 85% to...

County convention season (mostly) comes to an end this weekend

March 14, 2024 12:20 pmMarch 14, 2024 7:47 pm

After more than a month of hopping from county to county, meeting thousands of county committeemembers and learning each county Democratic organization’s obscure convention rules, Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) and First Lady Tammy Murphy will soon finally be free. The...

Breaking down the county-by-county battle between Andy Kim and Tammy Murphy

December 15, 2023 6:24 pmDecember 18, 2023 9:34 am

Every once in a while, there’s an election that makes the other 49 states suddenly pay a huge amount of attention to New Jersey politics. Next year’s explosive race for the United States Senate, with First Lady Tammy Murphy and...

Many top Hispanic politicians aren’t abandoning Menendez quite so quickly

September 28, 2023 12:41 pm

Following his indictment on federal bribery charges, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez has been abandoned by a vast swath of the Democratic Party, both nationally and at home in New Jersey. But some Hispanic and Latino Democrats are proving to be...