Kim cleared the field of his biggest challenger, Tammy Murphy, bringing a sleepy end to a once-heated campaign for the seat held by indicted Sen. Bob Menendez.
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Andy Kim votes at the First United Methodist Church in Moorestown on Tuesday with his sons August, 6, and Austin, 8 . Kim won the Democratic primary.U.S. Congressman Andy Kim won New Jersey’s Democratic Senate primary Tuesday, easily securing a nomination that puts him on a pathway to make history in the U.S. Senate.
New Jersey has not elected a Republican to the Senate in more than 50 years. While Kim is favored to win in November due to the state’s majority Democratic electorate, Menendez’s presence on the ballot could act as a spoiler for Kim and put the Senate seat in play for the first time in years. That would, however, require Menendez to perform extremely well as a third-party candidate.. But turnout was extremely low in that race, and it’s expected to be far higher during a presidential election.
“People thought it was just part of New Jersey,” Kim said at his polling place on Tuesday, where he voted with his wife and kids. “But to actually have a ballot — probably the first time in a century that we haven’t had a county line system on our ballot — I think it is a start of a new era of great democracy in New Jersey.”Inell Sutton, a 48-year-old caseworker, was much more interested in talking about voting for Kim than who he backed for president at the polls on Tuesday.
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