Andy Kim Continues to Collect Victories Over Tammy Murphy in NJ's Senate Primary
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Senate primary race to replace Sen. Bob Menendez is on between Rep. Andy Kim and the governor's wife Tammy Murphy. Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and editor, host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show and of the new podcast "Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery," reports on what's happening in the campaign ahead of the June primary, and the string of surprising wins Kim has collected over Murphy in county Democratic committee elections.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larrow's show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. We begin today with New York politics and New Jersey politics, both making big news on the New York side. |
| 0:21.0 | It looks like another battle is underway to redraw the congressional |
| 0:25.2 | district maps that help lead to the Republican sweep of Long Island and |
| 0:29.6 | some big wins in the Hudson Valley in 2022. Control of Congress is at stake and we'll talk about |
| 0:36.8 | that second this morning with the news still breaking from overnight and we're |
| 0:41.4 | digesting it right now. |
| 0:43.4 | But New Jersey too has something unusual going on. |
| 0:46.5 | Senator Bob Menendez is scandalized, as many of you know. |
| 0:50.3 | The governor's wife, Tammy Murphy, is running for his seat and many local New Jersey Democratic leaders have endorsed her, |
| 0:58.0 | but so far Tammy Murphy appears to be losing the rank and file to a lesser known Democrat congressman Andy Kim. |
| 1:05.6 | Here's Kim speaking the other day. |
| 1:07.8 | I get it. |
| 1:08.8 | I'm going up against a very powerful connected competitors in this race right now but I'm also standing |
| 1:14.7 | before you right now as a son of immigrants a public school kid that's currently |
| 1:19.2 | 23 points up in the polls right now. 23 points up in at least one poll right now. |
| 1:26.0 | We'll talk about that and we'll hear a clip of Tammy Murphy too, |
| 1:29.0 | as we welcome Nancy Solomon, who covers New Jersey for |
| 1:32.0 | WNY and Gothamist and hosts the Ask Governor |
| 1:35.3 | Murphy Call-In show every month. |
| 1:38.1 | Hey Nancy, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:40.3 | Thanks Brian. |
| 1:41.7 | Remind us of the Menendez situation, which is why this is going on in the first place? |
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