You Can’t Get there from Here: Why Running in CD11 When You Lost CD7 is so New Jersey
Back in the good ole’ days of 2018, I worked diligently on GOTV for the Tom Malinowski campaign for Congress in the NJ7 race. Hundreds and hundreds of people came out from everywhere to canvass. Acting troupes from NYC. Couples on canvassing dates. Families would canvas, then go leaf peeping. It was amazing!
In the aftermath of the election of Trump I, the CD7 seat was flipped from a solid R for years to a reliable D with Tom Malinowski besting Leonard Lance, handing him his ever general election loss. Yay.
Tom was a good Congressman for the NJ7 district, with dependable and trustworthy representation. He brought back the bacon to the district and opposed Trump at every turn. But the really important aspect of that victory: a district was flipped. That win was a huge lake of water in a mighty blue wave. So it goes.