{"id":1862672,"date":"2023-02-27T20:50:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T01:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1862672"},"modified":"2023-02-27T20:50:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T01:50:47","slug":"87-year-old-new-jersey-state-senator-gives-up-on-re-election-after-bailing-on-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/87-year-old-new-jersey-state-senator-gives-up-on-re-election-after-bailing-on-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"87-Year-Old New Jersey State Senator Gives Up On Re-Election After Bailing On GOP"},"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\">26<\/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%2F87-year-old-new-jersey-state-senator-gives-up-on-re-election-after-bailing-on-gop%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=1862672&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-->\n<p>A New Jersey senator at 87 years old who represents the state of New Jersey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/87-year-old-new-jersey-state-senator-says-he-is-leaving-gop-to-become-a-democrat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We have left the Republican Party<\/a> Now, he says he will not seek re-election in this year&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks after he declared he would be a Democrat, the GOP leaders stopped him from becoming one. &#8220;abandoned&#8221; He was pursuing another term as state senator Samuel Thompson. <a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/legislature\/thompson-wont-seek-re-election-after-party-switch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Jersey Globe<\/a> He is ready to focus his attention on home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have decided I&#8217;m not going to run for re-election,&#8221; Thompson stated. &#8220;My priority should be my wife. She&#8217;s 91, and she&#8217;s had two falls in the last year and has trouble getting around. We are celebrating our 66th anniversary on Thursday. I owe her my full attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, who rebelled against the Republican Party following Old Bridge Mayor Owen Henry (63), made headlines earlier in this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mycentraljersey.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/02\/02\/nj-senate-12th-distrcit-owen-henry-sam-thompson\/69860352007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He announced that he would be competing<\/a> In the June GOP primary, he was defeated in New Jersey&#8217;s 12th Legislative District.<\/p>\n<p>The four-term state senator said ageism was to be blamed as GOP leaders signaled their interest in a new face.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson was welcomed into the ranks of some Democrats, including <a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/governor\/murphy-welcomes-thompson-to-the-democratic-party-but-doesnt-endorse-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Governor Phil Murphy<\/a>Thompson claimed that they had even &#8220;pledged to support my re-election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thompson insists that he will not change his voting behavior despite the party switch &#8220;I am not a liberal; I&#8217;d put myself as a moderate conservative,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/legislature\/how-is-trenton-reacting-to-sam-thompsons-party-switch-cautiously\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thompson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/legislature\/how-is-trenton-reacting-to-sam-thompsons-party-switch-cautiously\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the New Jersey Globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, a candidate petition must be filed <a href=\"https:\/\/nj.gov\/state\/elections\/vote.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">End date: March 27<\/a>Thompson said that he would like to allow Democrats the opportunity to present a viable alternative candidate in his heavily Republican District.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to make my announcement now so that my party has time to find another candidate,&#8221; He stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 87-year-old New Jersey state senator who ditched the Republican Party now says he won\u2019t seek re-election this year. Two weeks after saying he would become a Democrat because GOP leaders \u201cabandoned\u201d him while he pursued another term, state Sen. Samuel Thompson told the New Jersey Globe he wants to turn his attention to home. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1847334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[18665,19887,6203,10340,8607,4012],"class_list":["post-1862672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-87-year-old","tag-bailing","tag-gop","tag-jersey","tag-re-election","tag-senator"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862672","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}