{"id":3559,"date":"2024-08-30T01:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T01:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/new-jersey-democrats-pick-state-senator-to-replace-pascrell-on-november-ballot\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T01:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T01:02:26","slug":"new-jersey-democrats-pick-state-senator-to-replace-pascrell-on-november-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/new-jersey-democrats-pick-state-senator-to-replace-pascrell-on-november-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Democrats pick state senator to replace Pascrell on November ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">New Jersey state Sen. Nellie Pou on Thursday secured the Democratic nomination to replace the late Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) on the November ballot. She is now likely to become the next House member from New Jersey\u2019s 9th District, which is solidly Democratic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">Pou would be the first Latina to represent New Jersey in Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">Pou received a unanimous vote at a convention Thursday evening where local party leaders were tasked with picking the new Democratic nominee, according to the Passaic County Democratic Party. All of Pou\u2019s competitors had withdrawn by Wednesday evening, when New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) endorsed her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">\u201cSenator Nellie Pou is the ideal public servant to succeed Congressman Pascrell and continue his life\u2019s mission of building a stronger, fairer, more equitable, and more inclusive New Jersey for every family,\u201d Murphy said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">Pascrell, 87, died on Aug. 21 after being hospitalized for weeks with a fever and respiratory infection. The 14-term congressman had been the second-oldest member of the House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">Democrats were on a tight timeline to replace Pascrell on the ballot, facing a Thursday deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">Pou has served in the New Jersey Senate since 2012 and was a member of the General Assembly before that. She was appointed to replace Pascrell in the chamber in 1997 after his election to Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">The Republican nominee for the November election is \u200b\u200bAir Force veteran Billy Prempeh.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on washingtonpost.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey state Sen. Nellie Pou on Thursday secured the Democratic nomination to replace the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}