Justin Murphy Archives - New Jersey Globe

Poll: NJ-7 race is too close to call

September 14, 2026 4:25 pmSeptember 15, 2026 1:37 am

DISCLAIMER: Polls can help explain elections, but they’re imperfect, as New Jersey’s three most recent statewide general elections show: nearly every pollster projected results that differed substantially from the actual outcomes. Poll results should be treated as data points and...

Murphy backs Trump effort to limit mail-in voting

August 28, 2026 10:50 pmAugust 28, 2026 10:51 pm

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Justin Murphy, who is challenging Democratic Sen. Cory Booker this fall, has endorsed the Trump administration’s effort to restrict mail-in voting after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for portions of the administration’s executive order...

A look at federal, county and municipal races in Mercer County in 2026

August 28, 2026 2:40 pmAugust 29, 2026 5:32 pm

Mercer County, home to the state capital, Trenton, has been one of the state’s most consistent Democratic counties. The county is one of only a few in the state where it is quite common for all 12 municipalities to vote...

A look at federal, county and municipal races in Sussex County in 2026

August 25, 2026 5:48 amAugust 24, 2026 11:52 pm

Discussing the lay of the land in Sussex County requires this preamble: Abraham Lincoln lost Sussex twice. Sussex County, in many ways, is the opposite of what many people think of when they think of New Jersey: densely populated and...

A look at federal, county and municipal races in Monmouth County in 2026

August 20, 2026 12:02 pmAugust 24, 2026 9:30 am

Monmouth County has long been indispensable to Republican hopes in New Jersey, a sprawling political anchor stretching from deeply Republican Shore communities to conservative inland towns. The state’s sixth-largest county is neither as populous nor as overwhelmingly Republican as neighboring...

A look at federal, county and municipal races in Hunterdon County in 2026

August 14, 2026 1:14 pm

For generations, Hunterdon County has been a Republican bastion, often grouped with Warren and Sussex counties because of its rural character and strong Republican tilt. Hunterdon was one of only four counties in the state — along with Sussex, Warren,...

A look at federal, county and municipal races in Bergen County in 2026

August 5, 2026 6:52 amAugust 4, 2026 8:40 pm

For generations, Bergen County was the place where Republican statewide campaigns lived or died. Before Chris Christie rewrote New Jersey’s electoral map in 2009 by running up enormous margins in the fast-growing Republican counties of Ocean, Monmouth and Morris –...