One Day More

Good morning!

Lots of questions on this, the final day before Election Day 2026.

Will Rebecca Bennett end the Kean dynasty?

Is any other GOP-held House seat here in legitimate danger of flipping?

When does Cory Booker announce that he’s running for president again?

With early in-person voting now over, how big an advantage do Democrats have going into Tuesday?

Will Haley Stevens cause some chaos here, too, or is she content with just starting fires for Democrats in Michigan?

More: Lilo Stainton looks at two things happening simultaneously this week: the midterm elections and open enrollment for Obamacare healthcare plans. Democrats have used the rise of healthcare rates as a key argument against the GOP on the campaign trail, and now they could be aided by angry consumers hoping to buy plans on the marketplace and finding skyrocketing rates.

LGBTQ: Anne-Marie Caruso today unveils the fourth in her “Who I Am Meant To Be” series that looks at the lives of transgender New Jerseyans. For this one, she talked to four trans college students and explores how they came out to loved ones, their struggles with gender dysphoria, and how they managed transitioning while seeking degrees.

ICYMI: From Friday, Nikita Biryukov looks at the race down in our 2nd District, where Democrats are hoping a big enough wave on Tuesday will sweep incumbent GOP Rep. Jaff Van Drew out of office. Nikita notes that Van Drew’s Dem opponent, Cape May Mayor Zack Mullock, faces some major hurdles, including Van Drew’s entrenched brand, a much more Republican district than Van Drew won in 2018 (when he was a Democrat), and fundraising.

Poll: Fairleigh Dickinson University’s poll partnered with International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825 on a new survey asking New Jersey voters what kind of developments they want to see built. Seventy-nine percent said they want to make it easier to build middle-class housing and power plants, while just 39% want to make warehouses easier to build and only 25% said so about data centers. The poll also says electricity prices are not driving opposition to data centers. “We’ve seen concerns about both electricity prices and data centers increasing at the same time, so it’s been natural to assume that one is driving the other,” said poll director Dan Cassino. “But it’s attitudes about big tech companies and AI that are driving views about data centers much more than electricity prices.”

Alaska: Via James Brooks at sibling site Alaska Beacon, a federal judge over the weekend tossed a Trump administration lawsuit that sought to delay certification of that state’s U.S. Senate seat if GOP incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan wins by too small a margin. The feds are targeting another Dan Sullivan in the race, Dan J. Sullivan, amid claims that Dem candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited that Sullivan to confuse voters and help Peltola win. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason said her court lacks jurisdiction in the matter. The Trump administration is appealing.