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The two embattled Democrats who had planned to run for state Assembly in the 37th District on the ballot with state Senate candidate Gordon Johnson have backed out of the race. Alexandra Soriano-Taveras, whose call for a boycott of Teaneck businesses last year became a renewed target for controversy this month, and Palisades Park Mayor Christopher Chung, who last week was chided by the state comptroller in a report accusing the borough of fiscal mismanagement, both said this week that they are withdrawing from consideration for June’s Assembly primary. The withdrawals are another twist in this liberal district s intra-Democratic Party war, ignited when its longtime state senator, Loretta Weinberg, announced she is not seeking reelection in the fall. ....
The political landscape in this New Year will depend on how swiftly and successfully New Jersey and the nation emerges from the nightmare that was 2020. Hovering over the New Jersey governor’s race and contests for all 120 seats in the Legislature in 2021 is the expectation that the distribution of a vaccine will finally bring the deadly coronavirus to heel. And with that, the hope that a weary and heartbroken public can reclaim some semblance of normalcy. Also fueling a modicum of optimism is the coming installation of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, who have promised a more focused, science-based pivot from the dismissive, disordered Trump administration’s management of the pandemic. ....