Christine Todd Whitman Archives

Murphy body slams Van Drew for rejecting Electoral College count

January 4, 2021 1:56 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy lambasted Democrat-turned-Republican Jefferson Van Drew on Monday for refusing to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, calling congressional Republicans seeking to “overthrow a free and fair election” as “shameful, dangerous, undemocratic and unpatriotic.” “It...

Mehta breaks Case record for most votes ever received by a New Jersey Republican

November 17, 2020 12:31 pmNovember 17, 2020 7:18 pm

Republican Rik Mehta has set the record for the most votes ever received by a Republican statewide candidate in New Jersey after he passed Clifford P. Case on Monday. Mehta is currently at 1,745,013 votes statewide, with more ballots still...

Booker sets record for most statewide votes in N.J. history

November 11, 2020 2:11 pmNovember 11, 2020 4:50 pm

U.S. Senator Cory Booker has already set a record for the greatest number of votes ever received by a statewide candidate in New Jersey. Booker has already passed the 2.2 million mark, with another 500,000 votes still uncounted across the...

He was governor of N.J. for 84 hours, and now he’s in line for a town administrator job

September 5, 2020 10:31 amSeptember 8, 2020 10:19 pm

John O. Bennett III, a former Co-President of the New Jersey State Senate and the Acting Governor of New Jersey for 84 hours in 2002, is up for a new job as the interim town administrator in Dover. The appointment...

Happy Birthday, Jim Florio

August 29, 2020 8:16 pmAugust 30, 2020 12:02 am

Happy Birthday to former Gov. Jim Florio, who turned 83 today. Florio has been a fixture in New Jersey politics since 1969, when he won a seat in the New Jersey. He spent fifteen years as a congressman from South...

Zimmer, former GOP congressman from N.J., to endorse Biden

August 24, 2020 11:07 am

Former Rep. Dick Zimmer (R-Delaware Township), a former three-term Republican congressman and the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in 1996 and 2008, will endorse Democrat Joe Biden for president today, the Biden campaign said. The Hunterdon County Republican is one...

In DNC’s final day, NJ Democrats urge unity against Trump

August 20, 2020 11:54 amAugust 21, 2020 7:05 pm

In their final convention delegate breakfast, New Jersey Democrats focused on two things: unity and defeating President Donald Trump. Some of the country’s top Democrats, including Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), joined to...