The pair of wins Tuesday night allows Joe Biden, who is already the presumptive Democratic nominee, to build on the delegate haul he’s already amassed heading into next month’s scaled-down Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee.
In recent weeks, all registered Democratic and Republican voters have received a ballot in the mail, while unaffiliated and inactive voters have received absentee ballot applications. Additionally, every municipality in the state will open at least one polling location.
Mail-in ballots were sent to 2.3 million registered Democrats and 1.3 million registered Democrats and approximately 1000,000 registered unaffiliated voters, an official with the state’s office of the secretary of state, which runs elections, told NBC News Tuesday.
Kennedy, a former public school teacher who is the wife of former Rep. Patrick Kennedy and the daughter-in-law of former Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, received the support of the state’s Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, as well as a handful of progressive groups. Her opponent, political scientist Brigid Callahan Harrison, had the backing of both of the state’s Democratic U.S. senators, as well as key local union groups and politicians.
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker also faced a progressive primary challenger, and a number of Republicans are competing for the chance to challenge him this fall. But Booker was not threatened in the primary as NBC News projected his win.
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