Even though Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election, she secured wins against former President Donald Trump in both New York and New Jersey. Nonetheless, the race was closer than it was in 2020 or 2016.
In campaign appearances, the president-elect railed against offshore wind and promised to sign an executive order to block such projects on his first day in office.
Hillary Clinton also faired better than Harris did when she faced Trump in 2016, beating him by more than 500,000 votes with 2.14 million to Trump’s 1.60 million in New Jersey. At the local level, a similar widening of margins occurred for Monmouth and Ocean counties, two Republican strongholds that saw a greater GOP victory than in the past.
The hearing, which was the first to accept the public's testimony on how to redesign New Jersey's ballots, follows a federal judge's order that barred the use of party-line primary ballots, which group certain candidates into a single row or column. Critics have said party-line ballots give some candidates an unfair advantage.
Vice President Harris will win New Jersey, giving her the Garden State’s 14 electoral votes, Decision Desk HQ projects. New Jersey is a solidly blue-leaning state that Harris was expected to