Normally a reliable blue bastion in federal elections, New Jersey surprisingly put up swing state numbers on Tuesday, coming the closest it has in a generation to casting its electoral votes for a Republican president.

New Jersey Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy sounds off on the presidential election results, which saw Trump close the gap in New Jersey 10 points from his last loss.

WOODLAND PARK, N.J. -- Democrats made history in two New Jersey election races on Tuesday. Congressman Andy Kim will be the first Korean-American to represent the state in the U.S. Senate, and state Sen. Nellie Pou is CBS News' projected winner in the 9th Congressional District, becoming the first Latina to represent the Garden State in Congress.

Democratic Party leaders in New Jersey were struggling to find answers about poor turnout across the Garden State.

A closer than predicted margin for Kamala Harris has Jersey’s Trump-supporters saying we told you so and Democrats soul-searching.

New Jersey trends Democratic in presidential elections, going for President Joe Biden in 2020 by 16%.Polling averages compiled by 538 show Vice President Kamal

Representative Thomas Kean Jr., a first-term Republican, was re-elected after a hard-fought race against Sue Altman, a Democrat.

So far, Trump had 191,478 votes in Monmouth to Harris’s 148,376 with all precincts reporting. Trump was leading big in Ocean County where the former president counts 219,269 ballots to Harris’s 102,079 with all precincts reporting.

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

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