{"id":1638222,"date":"2022-09-10T00:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T04:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638222"},"modified":"2022-09-10T00:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T04:04:57","slug":"malinowski-kean-ii-new-jerseys-marquee-midterm-battle-a-tossup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/malinowski-kean-ii-new-jerseys-marquee-midterm-battle-a-tossup\/","title":{"rendered":"Malinowski-Kean II: New Jersey\u2019s Marquee Midterm Battle a \u2018Tossup\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmalinowski-kean-ii-new-jerseys-marquee-midterm-battle-a-tossup%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638222&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican state Sen. Tom Kean Jr. (R-Westfield) fell 5,329 votes short\u2014less than 1 percentage point\u2014of unseating Democrat Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) in their 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-new-jersey\">New Jersey<\/a> Congressional District 7 (CD 7) race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kean, the son of former Republican New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean Sr., earned a 2022 Midterm rematch with Malinowski on June 7 when he defeated six party rivals in the CD 7 GOP primary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With post-Census reapportionment adding about 10,000 more registered Republican voters to the suburban swing district, Kean is now regarded by many forecasters as a narrow favorite to win one the nation\u2019s most-watched Nov. 8 congressional elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Malinowski-Kean II is New Jersey\u2019s marque 2022 Midterms battle and among 22 elections nationwide where congressional seats now held by Democrats are up for grabs in \u201ctossup\u201d races.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Along with contests in Virginia\u2019s CD 2 and CD 7, analysts say how New Jersey\u2019s CD 7 race unfolds on Nov. 8 could be a bellwether in presaging which party wins the rest of the day and controls Congress beginning in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The GOP needs to gain five seats on Nov. 8 to secure a majority in the U.S. House. New Jersey Republicans believe they can flip one, maybe two, of those blue seats red for the cause.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-09-at-1.43.27-PM-1200x1319.png\"><\/a> Two-term New Jersey Congressional District 7 Democratic incumbent Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) shakes hands with a veteran at VFW Post 5119 in Glen Gardner, N.J., during a recent campaign meet-and-greet. (Courtesy Tom Malinowski for Congress) <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Democrats hold 10 of New Jersey\u2019s 12 seats in Congress. Eleven incumbents, including both Republican reps, are seeking reelection in November. All but Malinowski and Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) are expected to win convincingly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kim, seeking a third term in CD 3, faces a stiff challenge from Republican Bob Healey, executive co-chair of the Viking Group, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican state Sen. Tom Kean Jr. (R-Westfield) fell 5,329 votes short\u2014less than 1 percentage point\u2014of unseating Democrat Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) in their 2020 New Jersey Congressional District 7 (CD 7) race. Kean, the son of former Republican New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean Sr., earned a 2022 Midterm rematch with Malinowski on June 7 when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}