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Menendez splits from Biden admin over Cuba, Venezuela policies

May 17, 2022 3:23 pm

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, the chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, broke with President Joe Biden on foreign policy issues twice in as many days this week: first over the continuing normalization of relations with Cuba, and today...

In one of New Jersey’s swingiest towns, a mayoral challenger emerges

April 1, 2022 4:35 pm

New Providence was a solidly Republican town, until it wasn’t. The Union County borough, which is in the state’s upper echelons of both income and educational attainment, used to vote for Republicans up and down the ballot, from staunch conservatives...

No organization lines in early 2024 presidential primaries

March 18, 2022 5:14 pm

If New Jersey moves the 2024 presidential primary to earlier in the cycle, there would be no organization lines for the stand-alone contest. Organization lines only exist in primaries where countywide candidates are running. The last time New Jersey held...

What might a first-in-the-nation New Jersey presidential primary look like?

March 16, 2022 5:15 pm

The year is 2024. Ron DeSantis orders a “breakfast sandwich with pork roll” in Mahwah, and his poll numbers in North Jersey immediately drop by 10 points. The driver of Nikki Haley’s campaign bus gets in a screaming match with...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 21, 2022 12:20 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:26 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy was the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — and in some cases, Democratic County Committee members — to award the organization line in the 2020 New...

Pascrell laud Biden for expected ejection of DeJoy ally from post office job

November 19, 2021 9:11 am

President Joe Biden’s expected announcement that he’ll replace U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors Chairman Ron Bloom has won applause from Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-Paterson), a vocal critic of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. “Today the President took a big...

Murphy, Ciattarelli make their final pitches

November 2, 2021 11:47 am

With Election Day finally here and hundreds of thousands of voters heading to the polls today, Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli are making their closing pitches to voters up and down the state. For Ciattarelli, that...