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Campaign donations to Trump and Harris pour in from NJ donors. See who’s raising more
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Financial contributions to presidential campaigns poured in during July from New Jersey donors, new Federal Election Commission reports show.
The mid-August filings from the presidential candidates’ principal campaign committees show the total they raised from the Garden State this election cycle rose from $13.7 million to nearly $18 million during a tumultuous month that saw one candidate suffer an attempted assassination and another bow out to support his vice president. Both events respectively lit a fire under Republicans and Democrats.
Republicans, who had outraised Democrats by $8.1 million to $4.8 million through June, saw Trump’s campaign padded by nearly $880,000 from New Jersey donors in July, according to federal campaign finance data. Democrats, meanwhile, saw individual contributions out of New Jersey for their candidates rise by nearly $3.4 million. About $2.8 million of that total came between July 21, the day Biden dropped out, and the end of the month, records show.
Going into July, the Biden and Harris campaigns had combined to raise $4.7 million in individual contributions from New Jerseyans, while Trump had raised another $4 million. However, the GOP held an overall lead to start the month, as former Gov. Chris Christie and Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, combined to collect more than $3.1 million in contributions from New Jersey donors for their 2024 presidential campaigns, records show. The Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott and Ron DeSantis campaigns also collected six figures from New Jersey donors.
The glut of July donations to Harris narrowed the gap considerably, though Republicans still held a total fundraising advantage of roughly $875,000 from Garden State donors to start August.
Retired donors go red
Federal Election Commission reports for the Trump campaign through July show the former president and GOP nominee has dominated in racking up small repeat contributions from New Jersey donors. One Roselle donor donated to Trump more than 1,100 times from July 2023 through July 2024, records show. Those contributions ranged from 59 cents to $70.27.
While that donor was self-described as a self-employed former account manager, repeat retired donors have been a driving force behind contributions to the GOP from New Jersey, records show.
Haley, who lasted the longest in the battle against Trump for the Republican nomination, took in nearly 10,500 separate donations totaling almost $1.3 million. More than half of those donations, roughly 5,600, came from donors self-classifying as “retired,” records show.
Haley’s donations from retirees outnumbered those for Harris and Biden combined through July by nearly 2-to-1 — it was 3-to-1 through June — but they still paled in comparison with Trump’s. By the end of July, retirees had made more than 67,000 individual donations to Trump’s campaign, including more than 1,800 from a single Bound Brook donor, records show. Retiree donations represented roughly two-thirds of New Jersey-based donations to the Trump campaign and more than one-third of all donations directly to presidential campaigns in the state through July.
The Biden and now Harris campaign, meanwhile, picked up roughly 23,000 separate donations from New Jerseyans self-described as “not employed,” records show. Fewer than 500 direct donations to Trump’s campaign came from people fitting that description. That total includes more than 100 donations from Trump’s regular Roselle donor.
NJ donors to presidential campaigns show trends
Other trends in the most recent campaign filings show that Harris and Biden have outpaced Trump in total donations from self-reported professors, lawyers and attorneys in New Jersey. Residents in general contracting, plumbing and some other aspects of the construction industry have conversely donated to Trump in larger numbers.
For the 2020 election, presidential campaigns directly raised more than $43.4 million from New Jersey contributors, with nearly $30.6 million of that total going to Democratic campaigns, federal records show. Biden’s campaign received almost $19.2 million from those Garden State donations, while Trump’s campaign raised $12.8 million. The totals through July for the two official Democratic and Republican nominees are $11.1 million and $7.9 million, respectively, below what was raised in New Jersey through the entire 2020 election cycle, records show.
During his run for the presidency this cycle, Newark-born Christie raised nearly $1.9 million in his home state from fewer than 1,900 direct individual donations to his campaign. The state-based contributions represented more than a quarter of his nationwide total. Christie’s fundraising in New Jersey benefited from large donations, though DeSantis had received the most donations of $5,000 or more in the Garden State through July, records show.
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New policy will change how New Jersey police respond to some mental health calls
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TRENTON, N.J. – The New Jersey state attorney general is changing the state’s use-of-force policy after two fatal police shootings of people experiencing mental health crises.
Attorney General Matthew Platkin says this is the first statewide policy of its kind and will require all police departments in New Jersey to coordinate with mental health professionals when they’re responding to a call for a barricaded person, a situation he says overwhelmingly involves people experiencing an emotional crisis and is the most likely call to end in an injury.
The policy will also require all New Jersey police departments to train their tactical teams in crisis negotiation and deploy them with what Platkin calls “less lethal force,” such as tasers and shields.
The state will also expand its “Arrive Together” program, which pairs police with mental health professionals to all departments for when they respond the type of barricaded calls involving someone having a mental health crisis.
Platkin said the changes will take effect as early as October.
Policy change comes following deadly shootings of Andrew Washington, Victoria Lee
In 2023, Jersey City Police officers shot and killed Andrew Washington, and just last month, Fort Lee Police shot and killed Victoria Lee. Both Washington and Lee had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and their families told 911 they were in the midst of a mental crisis.
Neither the Jersey City nor the Fort Lee police departments were enrolled in the Arrive Together program prior to those shootings.
“Do you think if those departments were already involved in the Arrive Together program that Victoria Lee, Andrew Washington might be alive today?” CBS News New York’s Ali Bauman asked Platkin.
“I can’t comment on those cases. But what I can say, learning from our experience overseeing fatal police encounters … We know that when you take a clinical and more enlightened approach, when you don’t ask law enforcement to do everything … We can save lives. We can produce better outcomes. We can produce environments that are safer for the individual who’s suffering and safer for the officers responding,” Platkin said.
Washington’s family has filed a lawsuit against the Jersey City Police Department.
Family of Victoria Lee calls for accountability for deadly shooting
Lee’s family released a new statement Thursday, calling for accountability for the July 28 shooting.
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N.J. Democrats don’t have much time to pick a replacement for the late Congressman Pascrell
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U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell’s death on Wednesday leaves Democrats in the 9th Congressional District with just one week to select a replacement for the November ballot, setting the stage for a convention of leaders in Bergen, Passaic and Hudson counties.
Under state law, the three Democratic committees that make up the 9th Congressional District must submit a name to the Secretary of State by Aug. 29 — next Thursday — to be placed on the November ballot. With party leaders away at the Democratic National Convention, that doesn’t leave much time to make sure the committees meet and endorse.
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It will feel like summer again in N.J. as warm temps return this weekend
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New Jersey is expected to have one more day of cooler temperatures before warmer, summer-like conditions return Friday and last through the weekend and into next week.
Highs on Thursday will range from the mid 70 in northwestern New Jersey to 80 along parts of the Jersey Shore, including in Toms River and Atlantic City, the National Weather Service said.
We’ll have a mix of sun and clouds on another dry, comfortable day. Yet another cool evening is ahead as temps dip into the low to mid 50s overnight and into Friday morning.
It’ll feel more like summer again on Friday as highs reach the low 80s. By Saturday, we’re back to the mid 80s and on Sunday temperatures are expected to climb into the upper 80, forecasters say. It will also be more humid, though not oppressively so, according to AccuWeather.com.
No rain is in the forecast until at least Monday as skies should be sunny all weekend. Overnight lows are expected to steadily rise through the weekend — starting in the upper 50s Friday and ending with lows in the mid 60s Sunday night into Monday.
Daytime highs across New Jersey will steadily climb each of the next several days, according to AccuWeather.comAccuWeather.com
The forecast also call for Monday to be sunny and warm, though there’s a threat of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
The low in Trenton on Wednesday was 52, the coolest August temperature in the capital city in 24 years. At the marina in Atlantic City, the mercury plunged to 57, the lowest reading in August at that spot since 2003, the weather service said. No low temperature records in New Jersey were broken.
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Jeff Goldman may be reached at jeff_goldman@njadvancemedia.com.
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