New Jersey Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy sounds off on the presidential election results, which saw Trump close the gap in New Jersey 10 points from his last loss.

The hearing, which was the first to accept the public's testimony on how to redesign New Jersey's ballots, follows a federal judge's order that barred the use of party-line primary ballots, which group certain candidates into a single row or column. Critics have said party-line ballots give some candidates an unfair advantage.

Democratic Party leaders in New Jersey were struggling to find answers about poor turnout across the Garden State.

Normally a reliable blue bastion in federal elections, New Jersey surprisingly put up swing state numbers on Tuesday, coming the closest it has in a generation to casting its electoral votes for a Republican president.

New Jersey trends Democratic in presidential elections, going for President Joe Biden in 2020 by 16%.Polling averages compiled by 538 show Vice President Kamal

WOODLAND PARK, N.J. -- One Democrat made history and another is poised to following New Jersey election races on Tuesday.

A closer than predicted margin for Kamala Harris has Jersey’s Trump-supporters saying we told you so and Democrats soul-searching.

After a dramatic primary, New Jersey voters turn to the Nov. 5 general election to resolve several races for federal offices up and down the state.

So far, Trump had 191,478 votes in Monmouth to Harris’s 148,376 with all precincts reporting. Trump was leading big in Ocean County where the former president counts 219,269 ballots to Harris’s 102,079 with all precincts reporting.

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