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Firefighters union flips to Bennett in NJ-7

September 17, 2026 10:43 amSeptember 17, 2026 11:55 am

The New Jersey State Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Association has endorsed Democrat Rebecca Bennett for Congress in New Jersey’s 7th district, flipping its support from two-term Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. in one of the nation’s closely watched House races. The...

State admits it stopped enforcing petition law as GOP fights to keep Libertarian off NJ-7 ballot

August 24, 2026 6:16 amAugust 24, 2026 10:02 am

New Jersey election officials stopped enforcing a law requiring petition circulators to live in the state, a practice now at the center of a federal court fight over whether Libertarian congressional candidate Lana Leguía can appear on the November ballot...

Kean campaign raises over $500,000 in NJ-7 after candidate’s extended hospitalization

July 15, 2026 12:53 pmJuly 15, 2026 10:52 pm

The month-long hospitalization of Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. (R-Westfield) for depression interrupted his re-election fundraising during the second quarter, and the two-term Republican from New Jersey’s 7th district reported raising $519,142 — below what is typically expected of an incumbent...

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

July 8, 2026 4:23 pmJuly 9, 2026 3:57 pm

For more than a century, Somerset County stood among New Jersey’s premier Republican strongholds. It backed Herbert Hoover over Franklin D. Roosevelt at the height of the Great Depression, remained reliably Republican through the New Deal and postwar eras, and...

A tale of two Democratic primaries

June 4, 2026 5:03 pmJune 5, 2026 4:51 pm

A few ballots from 2026’s primary elections still remain to be counted, but the two biggest contests of the night have been firmly decided: Rebecca Bennett and Adam Hamawy are the Democratic nominees in the 7th and 12th congressional districts....

Adam Hamawy wins wide-open NJ-12 race in major victory for the left

June 2, 2026 10:00 pmJune 3, 2026 1:59 am

Adam Hamawy is set to become the next congressman from New Jersey’s 12th congressional district, the New Jersey Globe projects, after winning a 12-candidate Democratic primary to succeed retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing). Hamawy, a plastic surgeon and U.S....

Outside groups have spent more than $12 million on this year’s Democratic primaries

June 1, 2026 4:45 pm

For decades, the most important question one could ask of a New Jersey candidate was: do you have the county line? Now, a new question has dethroned it: do you have a super PAC? While super PACs have been a...