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New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 15, 2021 12:13 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:24 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...

Menendez wants non-partisan commission to investigate nation’s pandemic response

September 23, 2020 11:38 am

U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-North Bergen) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) want to create a non-partisan commission to investigate the country’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. “We can never put our country, our communities and our families through this again,” Menendez...

New Jersey’s longest-living congressional candidate ran with LBJ in 1964

August 18, 2020 10:22 am

With the passing of Paul Porreca on Friday evening, the longest-living New Jersey congressional candidate is Richard J. Traynor, who ran as a Democrat against Rep. Florence P. Dwyer (R-Elizabeth) in 1964. Now 91 and living in Maine, Traynor is...

Biden opens up 16-point lead over Trump in New Jersey, Monmouth poll says

April 23, 2020 10:00 amApril 23, 2020 10:42 am

Joe Biden has a sixteen-point lead over Donald Trump in New Jersey, according to a Monmouth University Poll released this morning, but the race is a dead heat in the state’s battleground congressional districts. Biden leads Trump by a 54%-38%...

Murphy is New Jersey’s most popular governor since Kean, poll shows

April 21, 2020 4:18 pm

In the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Phil Murphy has become the most popular elected governor of New Jersey since Tom Kean was at 76%-6% (Rutgers-Eagleton, 10/1985) weeks before he was re-elected with 70% of the vote. Murphy’s...

Ruth Mandel, Eagleton-Rutgers legend, dies at 81

April 11, 2020 8:09 pmApril 12, 2020 1:14 am

The New York Times is reporting that Ruth B. Mandel, the longtime director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a legend in the New Jersey political world, has died at 81. Mandel headed the...

Jim Welsh, Union freeholder, judge, dies at 74

March 25, 2020 10:02 amMarch 27, 2020 10:07 am

James C. Welsh, an affable Union County politician who served as a mayor, freeholder and judge, died on March 21. He was 74. Welsh served as Hillside municipal prosecutor and township attorney, and won several terms on the township committee....