Keely Magee News Today

Representative Andy Kim slammed his own party on Friday, roundly criticizing local leaders of the Democratic Party attempting to pressure a cohort of Gen Z voters against endorsing him in the race to oust incumbent Senator Robert Menendez.“This is why people lose faith in democracy and our system,” Kim posted in a thread on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “The Dem party will lose credibility in criticizing Trump and others about efforts to subvert democracy if som...

New Jersey College Democrats wanted to endorse Andy Kim. Then they began receiving a series of intimidating calls.

In a series of calls, a person in contact with the Senate campaign of Gov. Philip Murphy’s wife pressured a student Democratic group not to endorse her chief rival in the New Jersey race.

The College Democrats of New Jersey were preparing to make an endorsement in one of the country’s most closely watched U.S. Senate primaries when calls began to come in from someone in touch with the campaign of Tammy Murphy, the presumptive front-runner and the wife of the state’s governor. The caller, a female college student who works as a youth coordinator for the Democratic State Committee, wanted to know what Murphy’s campaign could do to block the group from endorsing...

Gen Z came of age during a pandemic, the climate crisis and Trump, and now they are demanding action — but will the aging establishment listen?

A generation that came of age during the pandemic and under Trump is demanding more from our aging politicians — but will the D.C. establishment listen?