Aligning Indicators Point to GOP Gaining New Jersey House SeatNew Jersey two-term incumbent Rep. Tom Malinowski's (D-N.J.) sustained tenure appears tenuous with a host of indicators making him the underdog in his Nov. 8 rematch against Republican Tom Kean, Jr., who came within 1 percentage point of unseating him in their 2020 Congressional District 7 (CD 7) contest.
The most significant of these aligning indicators are voter registration numbers in the wake of the state's post-2020 Census redistricting that recast formerly Democrat-leaning CD 7—which Malinowski barely won two years ago—as more competitive for Republican candidates.
In Kean's case, perhaps decisively so.
Republican candidate for New Jersey Congressional District 7 Tom Kean, Jr., emerges from a voting booth on Oct. 29 in Rahway, N.J. (Courtesy of Tom Kean for Congress)
As newly constituted, CD 7 now has 30,000 more Republicans than it did in 2020 when Kean, the grandson of former U.S. Rep. Robert Kean (R-N.J.), and son of former Republican Gov. Thomas Kean, Sr., lost to Malinowski by less than 5,300 votes....
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