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Stepien will serve as Trump’s deputy campaign manager, report says

May 26, 2020 12:18 pm

Bill Stepien is getting a new position within President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Stepien, one of Trump’s foremost political advisors, will serve as the president’s deputy campaign manager. Brad Parscale, who currently helms Trump’s...

Steinhardt in holding pattern on RNC convention

May 21, 2020 12:24 pm

Republican State Chairman Doug Steinhardt is still waiting to see whether the Republican National Committee will hold its August convention. “As far as we know, the convention is still planning to go forward. I haven’t heard anything to the contrary,”...

Most residents don’t know new primary date, poll says

May 14, 2020 3:02 pm

A vast majority of New Jerseyans don’t know when this year’s primary elections will be held, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton poll released Thursday. Just 6% of voters correctly identified the July 7 primary date, and another 10% knew the elections...

Biden still hasn’t spoken to Murphy

May 11, 2020 3:23 pm

Former Vice President Joe Biden has still not spoken with the governor of the state that has seen more cases of COVID-19 than all but one other state in the nation. “I still have not spoken with the vice president,”...

Menendez is huge stakeholder in 2020 elections

May 11, 2020 10:46 am

Bob Menendez isn’t on the ballot this year, but he’s still on the biggest stakeholders of the 2020 elections. If Democrats can win control of the United States Senate in the fall, the senior Senator from New Jersey would become...

Trump names GOP donor as postmaster general. Could that mean the return of local postmasters as congressional picks?

May 8, 2020 1:50 pmMay 21, 2020 1:58 pm

President Donald Trump named a top Republican contributor as the new Postmaster General, returning the post to a political appointee for the first time in 48 years. Post offices were once the ultimate patronage pits for political organizations, some of...

New Jersey gives high grades to Fauci

May 6, 2020 3:41 pm

New Jersey likes Dr. Anthony Fauci, a new Rutgers-Eagleton poll shows. Fauci., the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, gets an A grade on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic from 44% of New Jerseyans, with...