Here are the candidates in the Democratic primary to fill Mikie Sherrill’s House seat
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Democratic voters will have nearly a dozen candidates to choose from on Thursday’s ballot in the special election primary in New Jersey‘s 11th Congressional District.
There are 11 Democratic candidates duking it out in Thursday’s primary as they vie to see who will take on GOP candidate Joe Hathaway in the general election to fill Gov. Mikie Sherrill‘s (D-NJ) vacant seat in the House. Sherrill, the former 11th District representative, resigned from the House after she won her 2025 gubernatorial election, setting the stage for a special election to fill the remainder of her term that will expire in January 2027.
The candidates largely seen as the front-runners vying for the Democratic nomination are: former New Jersey Rep. Tom Malinowski; Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill; Analilia Mejia, former national political director for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); and former New Jersey Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way.
Other candidates include Passaic County Commissioner John Bartlett; Morris Township Deputy Mayor Jeffrey Grayzel; Chatham Borough Councilman Justin Strickland; Cammie Croft, a staffer in former President Barack Obama’s White House; Army veteran Jack Beecher; comedian and lawyer J-L Cauvin; and Anna Lee Williams.
The primary election is Thursday, while the general special election will be held on April 16. The seat will then be up for grabs again during the regular midterm election cycle on Nov. 3, with the regular primaries being held on June 2.
Tom Malinowski
Malinowski, the former representative for New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, is taking another shot at running to represent New Jersey in the upper chamber. The former two-term congressman lost out to Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. (R-NJ) in 2022 after the Garden State redistricted. Per his campaign website, Malinowski is running again to “lower costs,” “protect democracy,” “fight corruption,” and “regulate technology.”
Malinowski notched an anti-establishment endorsement from Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) in December 2025, as Kim called him someone with a “heart of service” who “knows the House of Representatives, he knows Congress, he knows New Jersey, he knows how to be able to stand up against Donald Trump.”
Analilia Mejia
Fighting from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, Mejia says she is running to “transform our economy so it works for working families, not just the wealthy and powerful” and to “stop authoritarianism, reform the courts, and protect our democracy.”
Mejia, a grassroots …
Why resist verification?
Democratic voters will have nearly a dozen candidates to choose from on Thursday’s ballot in the special election primary in New Jersey‘s 11th Congressional District.
There are 11 Democratic candidates duking it out in Thursday’s primary as they vie to see who will take on GOP candidate Joe Hathaway in the general election to fill Gov. Mikie Sherrill‘s (D-NJ) vacant seat in the House. Sherrill, the former 11th District representative, resigned from the House after she won her 2025 gubernatorial election, setting the stage for a special election to fill the remainder of her term that will expire in January 2027.
The candidates largely seen as the front-runners vying for the Democratic nomination are: former New Jersey Rep. Tom Malinowski; Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill; Analilia Mejia, former national political director for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); and former New Jersey Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way.
Other candidates include Passaic County Commissioner John Bartlett; Morris Township Deputy Mayor Jeffrey Grayzel; Chatham Borough Councilman Justin Strickland; Cammie Croft, a staffer in former President Barack Obama’s White House; Army veteran Jack Beecher; comedian and lawyer J-L Cauvin; and Anna Lee Williams.
The primary election is Thursday, while the general special election will be held on April 16. The seat will then be up for grabs again during the regular midterm election cycle on Nov. 3, with the regular primaries being held on June 2.
Tom Malinowski
Malinowski, the former representative for New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, is taking another shot at running to represent New Jersey in the upper chamber. The former two-term congressman lost out to Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. (R-NJ) in 2022 after the Garden State redistricted. Per his campaign website, Malinowski is running again to “lower costs,” “protect democracy,” “fight corruption,” and “regulate technology.”
Malinowski notched an anti-establishment endorsement from Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) in December 2025, as Kim called him someone with a “heart of service” who “knows the House of Representatives, he knows Congress, he knows New Jersey, he knows how to be able to stand up against Donald Trump.”
Analilia Mejia
Fighting from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, Mejia says she is running to “transform our economy so it works for working families, not just the wealthy and powerful” and to “stop authoritarianism, reform the courts, and protect our democracy.”
Mejia, a grassroots …
Here are the candidates in the Democratic primary to fill Mikie Sherrill’s House seat
Why resist verification?
Democratic voters will have nearly a dozen candidates to choose from on Thursday’s ballot in the special election primary in New Jersey‘s 11th Congressional District.
There are 11 Democratic candidates duking it out in Thursday’s primary as they vie to see who will take on GOP candidate Joe Hathaway in the general election to fill Gov. Mikie Sherrill‘s (D-NJ) vacant seat in the House. Sherrill, the former 11th District representative, resigned from the House after she won her 2025 gubernatorial election, setting the stage for a special election to fill the remainder of her term that will expire in January 2027.
The candidates largely seen as the front-runners vying for the Democratic nomination are: former New Jersey Rep. Tom Malinowski; Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill; Analilia Mejia, former national political director for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); and former New Jersey Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way.
Other candidates include Passaic County Commissioner John Bartlett; Morris Township Deputy Mayor Jeffrey Grayzel; Chatham Borough Councilman Justin Strickland; Cammie Croft, a staffer in former President Barack Obama’s White House; Army veteran Jack Beecher; comedian and lawyer J-L Cauvin; and Anna Lee Williams.
The primary election is Thursday, while the general special election will be held on April 16. The seat will then be up for grabs again during the regular midterm election cycle on Nov. 3, with the regular primaries being held on June 2.
Tom Malinowski
Malinowski, the former representative for New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, is taking another shot at running to represent New Jersey in the upper chamber. The former two-term congressman lost out to Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. (R-NJ) in 2022 after the Garden State redistricted. Per his campaign website, Malinowski is running again to “lower costs,” “protect democracy,” “fight corruption,” and “regulate technology.”
Malinowski notched an anti-establishment endorsement from Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) in December 2025, as Kim called him someone with a “heart of service” who “knows the House of Representatives, he knows Congress, he knows New Jersey, he knows how to be able to stand up against Donald Trump.”
Analilia Mejia
Fighting from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, Mejia says she is running to “transform our economy so it works for working families, not just the wealthy and powerful” and to “stop authoritarianism, reform the courts, and protect our democracy.”
Mejia, a grassroots …
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