New Jersey stays Blue

In 2018 three Congressional Districts were flipped. Those three Congresspeople have been re-elected, Sherrill, Malinowski and Kim. The latter two faced strong challenges and beat them back.

Now the Second District was flipped until Jeff Van Drew flipped the other way. Apparently having been elected as a Dem he has been re-elected as a Republican. But will he stay that way? 


Tom Kean Jr. tried to unseat Malinowski by relying on some of dirtiest, lying campaigning (not a surprise for him).  I'm glad that didn't work.


Sherrill kicked Becchi's butt in the 11th.


drummerboy said:

Sherrill kicked Becchi's butt in the 11th.

 This really warmed my heart. I am so glad I live in this part of New Jersey, and honestly this little corner of the country. 


STANV said:

In 2018 three Congressional Districts were flipped. Those three Congresspeople have been re-elected, Sherrill, Malinowski and Kim. The latter two faced strong challenges and beat them back.

Now the Second District was flipped until Jeff Van Drew flipped the other way. Apparently having been elected as a Dem he has been re-elected as a Republican. But will he stay that way? 

 I checked in on NJ-2 and saw that about a quarter of the vote hasn't been counted yet.  there is still a chance that Kennedy will prevail there.


Becchi is refusing to concede.


Jaytee said:

Becchi is refusing to concede.

 Seriously? She got swamped.


drummerboy said:

Jaytee said:

Becchi is refusing to concede.

 Seriously? She got swamped.

It doesn't matter.  Result is the same whether she wants to concede or not.


Kean is legitimately catching up to Malinowski in NJ07. Over 30K ballots still to be counted. Malinowski has about an 8K lead right now. It's entirely possible we'll see that district flip back to Trumpist.

It particularly galls me because Kean showed ad after ad of pretty bald faced lies about Malinowski. And in many of Kean's ads they show him talking to people without a mask. And the one ad I saw over and over didn't have a single person of color. He added one late in the game that showed a single POC for about 2 seconds.


The real question for NJ-7 is what votes have and have not been counted yet.  The District spans a number of different counties with vastly different voter profiles.


nohero said:

It doesn't matter.  Result is the same whether she wants to concede or not.

 I wonder if Becchi will show up for the swearing in ceremony. 


Is the Malinowski election finally over? Did he win?

ETA: I see Kean has conceded. woohoo!


2022 might be a challenge for Malinowski again. Kean isn't going away, and Republicans will be motivated. I'm not sure turnout among Democrats will be as high without the need to get rid of Trump.

I can also see a GOP campaign built around the story of needing a Republican House to impeach Biden. 



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