After weeks of traveling across the Garden State, New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy and Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) can begin to focus on the primary election.
After weeks of traveling across the Garden State, New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy and Rep. Andy Kim can begin to focus on the primary election instead of gaining. New Jersey’s ballots allow party leaders to endorse their preferred candidates in what is known as the county line. , Kim won nine counties, including Sussex County, one of two counties in the state that does not use the county-line ballot.
In every county Kim won, the county chair was neutral going into the convention and did not endorse any candidate. In all counties Murphy won, the county chair endorsed Murphy ahead of the convention. In some counties, all a candidate needs to get the county endorsement is to have the chair provide his or her endorsement.
Murphy will be on the county line for two-thirds of New Jersey voters ahead of the state’s June 4 primary.a crucial endorsement from Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, the latest blow to her campaign as she has faced criticism of nepotism. “I was an early supporter of Tammy Murphy for Senate, but it’s no secret I’ve been disappointed with the campaign and how it has been conducted,” Fulop said in a statement. “I’ve expressed that over the last two months repeatedly both privately and publicly, and, at this point, it’s clear to me that I was wrong with my early support and endorsement of Tammy Murphy for Senate.”
However, these endorsements could become a problem of the past and irrelevant in this election as New Jersey Attorney GeneralLast month, Kim sued the 19 county clerks who use the county-line system for it being “unconstitutional” and a process that he sayson the stand on Monday. “All I’m asking for is for New Jersey to be in line with 49 other states in terms of pursuing an office-block-style ballot that would allow us to have a fairer system here.
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