Cory Booker takes on Justin Murphy in NJ Senate race

Democratic New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is running for re-election as one of the state’s representatives in the Congressional Senate. Here, he will face Republican Justin Murphy along with several third party candidates, including:

• Veronica Fernandez for the End the Corruption! Party
• Joanne Kuniansky of the Socialist Workers Party
• Eduardo Castillo, Democratic Party write-in candidate

Booker, a Democrat, has served as a senator for New Jersey since 2013. He grew up in northern New Jersey and received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University before he went on to study at the University of Oxford, and then Yale Law School, where he graduated in 1997.

He still lives in Newark, where he previously served as mayor. His website claims he has “dedicated his life to fighting for those who have been left out, left behind, or left without a voice.”

Booker’s Republican challenger Justin Murphy, is an attorney from Tabernacle, who has no prior experience as an elected official.

He pledges to keep the NJ Pinelands “pristine,” to keep the Jersey Shore “pollution and windmill free,” and make parental rights and medical freedom national priorities, if elected.

He also notes that, if elected, “small business owners will have no better friend in Washington.”

Get live results for the NJ Senate race below starting at 8 p.m. ET.

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