There are two major contenders for the U.S. Senate seat from New Jersey in 2024, current Democratic Representative from New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District Andy Kim, and Republican candidate Curtis Bashaw, a hotel entrepreneur from Cape May.
Kim’s march toward the Democratic nomination was impressive. The third-term backbencher, who attracted national attention only when he was photographed helping to clean the U.S. Capitol after the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, struck when the iron was hot.
In October 2023 the current senior U.S. senator from New Jersey, Democrat Bob Menendez, and his wife were indicted by a…
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