Voters head to the polls in a New Jersey special House election.
Photographer: Aboubacar Kante/Bloomberg
It’s a Thursday,not a Tuesday, but today really is Election Day in New Jersey.
The Garden State, which has authorized non-Tuesday elections before, is hosting a special House contest today in its north-central 11th District to determine a successor for now-Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D), who resigned from Congress last November after her landslide election as New Jersey’s top executive.
Democrat Analilia Mejia, a progressive political organizer closely allied with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has the edge over Republican Joe Hathaway, a township councilman and former mayor, in a district ...