WEST ORANGE, NJ — Andy Kim stood between French doors in a cozy suburban home here outside New York, telling several dozen Democrats crammed into the living room that it’s time to defy their party’s leaders.
“We have to make a real choice here, of what kind of face we put forward,” said Kim, a congressman from the opposite end of the state, near Philadelphia. New Jersey needs new leadership, not “some musical chairs of powerful families.”
The message was only partly about New Jersey’s senior Senator, Bob Menendez, a Democrat facing a salacious indictment involving gold bars and alleged ...