Updated 4:10 p.m.
“Embarrassing” is too generous a word to describe this one…
Tammy Murphy ended her disastrous and inept 2024 U.S. Senate campaign on Sunday, Save Jerseyans, according to a report from The New Jersey Globe.
“[D]espite her huge fundraising haul and her many party endorsements in the state’s largest counties, Murphy concluded that Kim’s advantages – his sizable share of county lines, his superior polling results, and her challenges to build an urban voter turnout operation before vote-by-mail ballots begin going out next month – left her with an uphill battle,” wrote NJ Globe’s David Wildstein.
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The First Lady’s abrupt depature from the race will send schock waves throughout state politics, and it’s undeniably a stunning rebuke for her husband – Governor Phil Murphy – who won reelection in 2021 by a surprisingly thin 3-point margin and who had hoped to use his second term to launch a national profile via a par of affiliated political pacs.
Congressman Andy Kim (D, NJ-03) now heads into the June priamry as presumptive Democrat nominee and a strong favorite to win in November; Democratas haven’t lost a U.S. Senate race in the Garden State in the post-Watergate era.
Republicans are still sorting out their own primary: Cape May developer Curtis Bashaw, Mendham Mayor Christine Glassner, and ex-News12 journlist Alex Zdan are the primary combatants for the GOP nomination. The trio will class on April 3rd in a debate co-hosted by the NJ Globe and Save Jersey.
