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Ex-Congressman Pappas mulls State Senate bid for Bateman seat

February 8, 2021 6:48 pmFebruary 9, 2021 11:01 am

Former Rep. Michael J. Pappas is mulling a State Senate bid in the 16th district, setting up a potentially epic primary between two former congressmen in pursuit of a seat in the New Jersey Legislature. Pappas has been discussing a...

Kean retirement sparks GOP leadership elections in Senate, Assembly

February 1, 2021 2:45 pmFebruary 1, 2021 3:51 pm

Today’s announcement by Tom Kean, Jr. (R-Westfield) that he will not seek re-election to the State Senate will trigger a change in Republican leadership in both houses. Republicans will need to replace Kean as the senate Republican leader when his...

Doherty, DiMaio, Peterson will seek re-election

December 15, 2020 8:23 pm

The three incumbent Republican legislators from the 23rd district – State Sen. Michael Doherty (R-Oxford) and Assemblymen John DiMaio (R-Hackettstown) and Erik Peterson (R-Franklin) — announced on Tuesday night that they would seek re-election in 2021. The heavily-Republican district includes...

The history of Malinowski’s congressional seat

November 23, 2020 12:01 amJanuary 3, 2021 1:51 pm

The re-election of Tom Malinowski marked the third time in more than 100 years that New Jersey’s 7th district elected and re-elected a Democrat. Before Malinowski unseated five-term Rep. Leonard Lance (R-Clinton Township) in 2018, Republicans had held the 7th...

Malinowski vs. Kean race tightens again, but not enough to matter

November 19, 2020 5:38 pmNovember 19, 2020 8:16 pm

With Morris County ballots now completely counted, Republican Tom Kean gained 102 more votes in his 7th district congressional bid, leaving Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski with a 4,891-vote lead. Kean took 142 of the last 182 votes in the Morris...

Malinowski now leads by 4,961 after gaining 412 votes on Kean

November 15, 2020 5:10 pmNovember 16, 2020 3:33 pm

Democratic Rep Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) expanded his lead over Republican Thomas Kean, Jr. (R-Westfield) by 412 votes after Union County added 644 newly-counted votes to their tally on Sunday. Malinowski now leads Kean by 4,961 votes, 209,933 to 204,972 (50.6%...

Update: Still a huge number of uncounted ballots — probably around 35,000 –in NJ-7

November 12, 2020 11:27 pmNovember 13, 2020 4:10 pm

Correction: An adjusted number of uncounted ballots in the 7th district is closer to 36,853 after Somerset County adjusted some numbers on Friday. It appears that the county election administrator added the total number of uncounted provisional ballots in the...