The district was redrawn to make it more Republican — while making neighboring districts more solidly “blue.” Even with this win, there are only 3 GOP representatives out of 12 in the state.
Yea the redrawn district did help but I think the democrats are a little surprised this morning that they could not carry Somerset County which was trending “d” in 2020. Actually I was surprised that Malinowski got as many votes as he did in Hunterdon. I guess a significant chunk of people who moved out there in the last 2 years brought their cr*ppy politics with them.
Bottom line though…… 3 seats is better than 2 and we should be proud that NJ helped send Nancy Pelosi to the minority.