Roger Bacon, a self-styled Trump Democrat and 73-year-old perennial candidate from Phillipsburg, will challenge Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) in the Democratic primary. Bacon filed with 333 signatures, 133 more than he needs to qualify for the ballot. His slogan: “Putting...
New Jersey’s two United States Senators, Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, may get a chance to vote on the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. This will be the seventh top court...
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...
If the State Senate confirms Matt Platkin as the Attorney General of New Jersey, he’ll either be the 62nd person to hold the post — or the 56th. That depends on who is right, Gov. Phil Murphy or the New...
There was no real path to Jack Ciattarelli winning the 2021 New Jersey governor’s race without flipping Middlesex County, a mostly-suburban, heavily blue-collar Democratic stronghold in Central Jersey that Republican Chris Christie won by 4,774 votes when he ousted Gov....
Two weeks ago, voters across the state headed to polling places to cast their ballots, and Jack Ciattarelli was on his way to nearly scoring one of the most impressive upsets in New Jersey history. He didn’t win, of course;...
Seventeen of New Jersey’s 56 governors have served in the U.S. military. The last was Jon Corzine, who was in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1969 to 1975. The first governor of New Jersey, William Livingston, was a Brigadier...