Democrats may have an easier job than usual in two New Jersey legislative districts where Republicans SHOULD be competing heading into November.
In Steve Sweeney’s LD3, Democrat Assemblymen John Burzichelli and Adam Taliaferro are set to cruise to reelection. Republican Assembly challenger Nicholas Sereday (a National Guard member) was tossed from the ballot on Wednesday after a court found he didn’t meet the residency requirement (he apparently lived in LD4 until March, and there’s a one year cut-off).
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in a rural South Jersey district that Donald Trump carried in 2016.
Meanwhile, up in Bergen County’s LD36, a Democratic outpust but one full of working class neighborhoods where Republicans should be able to expand their reach, the GOP slate of Chris Auriemma (a veteran and firefighter), Craig Auriemma (they’re brothers) and Ana Castilla