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Far-right politics complicates GOP effort in key New Jersey legislative district


But even after Donald Trump’s once-gleaming former casino along the famed New Jersey Boardwalk was turned into rubble, the far-right, anti-immigrant, white identity politics the former president embraced still stand and threaten to undermine Republicans‘ chances of holding onto a state Senate seat in South Jersey they flipped from Democratic control four years ago.
Sen. Chris Brown (R-Atlantic) announced his retirement in February, a month after he was one of just two New Jersey Republicans to vote for a resolution condemning Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The GOP establishment in Atlantic County quickly rallied around Vince Polistina, an engineer and former two-term assemblymember, to run to replace Brown in the 2nd Legislative District. ....

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Will a state Senate race have echos of Trumpism?


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Finally, New Jersey Republicans can run for office without the specter of Donald Trump haunting them. Or can they?
Conservative activist Seth Grossman’s decision to run for state Senate in the 2nd Legislative District means the kind of hard right politics Trump embraced anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, and often racist will still be a force in the Republican contest there. ....

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