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Malinowski raises $920k in first three months of year

April 7, 2021 9:47 pmApril 8, 2021 9:35 am

Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) raised a towering $920,000 during the first three months of 2021 and has over $807,000 cash-on-hand as he prepares to seek re-election to a third term next year in New Jersey’s 7th district. Malinowski’s fundraising success...

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%...