Cory Booker beats Jeff Bell to win re-election in N.J.'s U.S. Senate race
Source: New Jersey On-Line
WOODBRIDGE — Cory Booker, the celebrity Newark mayor-turned U.S. Senator, has won another six years in the Senate.
The Associated Press projects that Booker, a Democrat who took office just one year ago after winning a special election, has defeated his Republican challenger, Jeff Bell, to win a full six-year term.
Booker’s win extends Democrats’ winning streak in New Jersey U.S. Senate races to 38 years.
Booker, 45, served as Newark mayor for seven years before winning last year’s election to replace the late U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.). A high-profile politician before winning the office with deep relationships with Holllywood actors, tech gurus and Wall Street financiers, Booker kept a low profile for the last year as he sought to learn the ropes in the U.S. Senate.
Bell, 70, was New Jersey’s Republican U.S. Senate nominee in 1978 and ran unsuccessfully for the party’s nomination in 1982. In 1983, he moved to northern Virginia, and worked as a political consultant and conservative policy wonk in Washington. Bell moved back to New Jersey in February to challenge Booker.
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Yay.
