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Giffords endorses Chris Smith re-election

July 17, 2020 11:36 amJuly 17, 2020 11:37 am

Giffords, one of the nation’s leading gun safety advocacy groups, has endorsed Rep. Christopher Smith (R-Hamilton), for re-election to a 21st term in the U.S. House of Representatives. The group’s co-founder, former Rep. Gabby Giffords, said that Smith has “ shown...

China retaliates against U.S. by imposing sanctions on Chris Smith

July 13, 2020 3:34 pmJuly 14, 2020 2:08 am

The Chinese government has announced sanctions against Rep. Christopher Smith (R-Hamilton) in retaliation to his speaking out against human rights abuses that target ethnic and religious minorities. The move follows U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to impose sanctions...

Primary 2020: Kennedy, Richter win; Gottheimer, Sires swamp challengers

July 8, 2020 5:17 amJuly 8, 2020 5:20 am

Amy Kennedy won a decisive victory in the NJ-2 Democratic primary to take on party-switching Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis) on Tuesday in a primary election delayed a month to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus and conducted almost...

New Jersey’s latest mystery: exactly when did Schmid decide she didn’t like Chris Smith?

July 7, 2020 3:49 pmJuly 7, 2020 4:17 pm

A big part of Stephanie Schmid’s stump speech to voters is that she once worked for the Republican congressman she’s hoping to take on, Christopher Smith (R-Hamilton). Schmid was 16 when she spent fifteen days after she was placed in...

Schmid responds to attack on her thank you notes as a 16-year-old Smith intern

July 7, 2020 10:29 am

OPINION Unable to run on his record after forty years in office, including a failure to help New Jersey families deal with a simultaneous pandemic and economic collapse, Representative Smith has discovered a political attack that is almost as old...

Forum for NJ-4 Democratic candidates on Sunday

July 3, 2020 7:08 pmJuly 3, 2020 7:10 pm

The New Jersey Globe will host a forum for the three Democratic candidates seeking to challenge Rep. Christopher Smith in New Jersey’s 4th district on Sunday, July 5 at 9:15 PM. All three candidates – David Applefield, Christine Conforti and...

Dems make registration gains in key N.J. congressional districts

July 2, 2020 11:05 amJuly 2, 2020 5:36 pm

Democrats have gained voters in New Jersey’s most competitive congressional districts. The 3rd, where Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) is seeking re-election in a district that hasn’t re-elected a Democratic congressman since the 1852, there are now 14,910 more Democrats than...