A long-held ballot quirk will test the power of party control versus Donald Trump's endorsement in New Jersey's GOP primary on Tuesday.
A long-held ballot quirk will test the power of party control versus Donald Trump's endorsement in New Jersey's GOP primary on Tuesday.
“It’s unusual for a line-backed candidate to lose,” said Micah Rasmussen, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics. “ got the organizational support … but she has this lightning in a bottle with Trump’s endorsement. That’s the real wild card.” In response to Trump’s comment, a Bashaw campaign spokesperson said the candidate is “a Curtis Bashaw Republican supported by thousands of Republicans throughout NJ.”
The catch, Rasmussen said, is that MAGA-supporting Republicans tend to do well in primaries against more moderate GOP contenders, garnering outsized support from highly engaged voters within the base.New Jersey hasn’t elected a Republican senator since the early 1970s, giving Garden State Democrats the longest streak of control in the U.S. Senate only behind Hawaii, according to Rasmussen — even as the state elected three Republican governors over the same time period.
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