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...
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...
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...
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%...
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...
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...
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....