REPORT: DCCC likely abandoning Malinowski as “red wave” rises

Polling is shifting against Democrats across the country, Save Jerseyans, and that means the weakest links are about to be sacrificed by scrambling party leaders.

Among those being thrown overboard? Tom Malinowski (D, NJ-07), the ethically-challenged two-term congressman from Central Jersey.

“With fifteen days left in the 2022 mid-term elections, the DCCC has still not reserved any television time and has spent relatively little money to protect Malinowski, a party loyalist who got the short end of the straw in a new congressional map drawn by Democrats,” David Wildstein of The New Jersey Globe reported on Monday.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!

Malinowski’s new map is only part of his problem. The incumbent, who also happens to be one of Congress’s most Leftist members, is still under active investigation for violations of the STOCK Act (including failing to report over one million dollars in pandemic-related stock trades). Wildstein noted that the most popular race prognosticators (including Cook and FiveThirtyEight) are all currently rating the district as lean Republican and favoring the challenger, Tom Kean Jr.

Back up at 30,000 feet, RealClearPolitics is forecasting a GOP gain in the U.S. House between 12 and 47 seats.

A Kean victory in the Garden State would improve the GOP’s New Jersey caucus to three (Chris Smith and Jeff Van Drew are both expected to cruise to victory).

Race watchers are also keeping an eye on NJ-03 (Kim vs. Healey) and NJ-05 (Gottheimer vs. Pallotta) where the Democrat incumbents were thought to be comfortable armed with massive war chests but, as the red wave appears to rise, they could find themselves in trouble if the environment continues to deteriorate.

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