SOMERS POINT, N.J. – Will the 2018 Republican nominee take a second crack at Jeff Van Drew in 2020?
“It’s too soon to say,” attorney and activist Seth Grossman told me this week when I asked him if he was getting in the quickly-filling primary field.
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Back in 2018, Grossman scored a surprise win in a split primary field; an unearthed controversial retweet isolated him and the state and national parties abandoned him for the general election. Notwithstanding going it alone, Grossman (a professed MAGA candidate) lost a narrow 52%-46% race against the superiorly-funded Democrat state senator.
Grossman isn’t committing to a second run in 2020. Not yet.
But he did recently mix it up with declared candidate and expected self-funder David Richter, a former construction firm CEO, in a Facebook thread complete with taunts and a winking emoji:
Weird? You bet. Welcome to 2020.
Grossman’s entry would make it a four-way race; engineer Brian Fitzherbert (endorsed by the mayors of three major NJ-02 towns) and former NJ-01 candidate Bob Patterson are also in the contest.
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