How a MAGA-aligned Republican has put a Democratic state in play
A bellwether race for governor of New Jersey looks closer than many expected
NEW JERSEY has been unkind to Donald Trump. The Trump Taj Mahal and other hotel-casinos he opened in Atlantic City during the 1980s failed by the early 2000s. His American football team, the New Jersey Generals, played two seasons before its upstart league collapsed. When Mr Trump won the White House in 2016, Hillary Clinton beat him in New Jersey by 14 percentage points, and in 2020 Joe Biden beat him by even more.
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