Representative Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) has fended off a challenge from Amy Kennedy, the latest Kennedy scion running for office.
Van Drew made national headlines after he switched parties for refusing to impeach President Trump. Democrats, from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, immediately put his South New Jersey seat in their crosshairs. (HuffPost)
Van Drew, 67, defeated Amy Kennedy, 41, a former schoolteacher, who is education director of the mental health foundation that her husband, former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, founded.
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The feared South Jersey political machine had anointed Van Drew, a dentist and conservative Democratic state senator, to run as a Democrat in New Jersey’s open Congressional District in 2018.
After Van Drew ― angry at pressure to join Democrats’ impeachment of President Donald Trump ― defected to the GOP, the machine backed political science professor Brigid Harrison to unseat him. In a heated Democratic primary, Harrison lost to Kennedy, who was backed by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) and the New Jersey Working Families Alliance.
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President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in New Jersey’s 2nd by four percentage points, after former President Barack Obama carried it twice in 2008 and 2012. And Frank LoBiondo, a moderate, pro-union Republican represented the region in the House for 24 years before announcing in 2017 that he planned to retire at the end of his 12th term.
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AllStates count registered voters. Then Count all votes. If overage or shortage of votes then some stayed home and the others are questionable. Can,t have more votes than registered voters.50 States means all.
county by county, city by city
Great job NJ and Jeff! Those commie scumbags need to all be in prison!
Now if only the rest of Jersey were that smart…