Kimmy Yam is a reporter for NBC Asian America.
NBC News projects Democratic Rep. Andy Kim wins New Jersey’s U.S. Senate race, defeating Republican Curtis Bashaw after a historic campaign to fill the seat of former Sen. Bob Menendez. The win makes Kim the state’s first Asian American senator. In his first interview after his victory was projected, Kim said he was still taking it all in. “I’m here with my mom and my dad. I’m here with my wife, with my two sons — three generations in the same room,” said Kim, 42.
In the state’s second-most-populous county, Middlesex, for example, eligible Asian American voters make up almost 38% of the electorate. In Bergen County, the most populous, they make up almost a quarter. Kim, the son of Korean immigrants, grew up in South Jersey. He is now set to be the first Korean American U.S. senator and has said his win would be a chance to listen to Asian American voters, who have often felt excluded from American politics.
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