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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.
THE SCOOP
The Devils began their season-high seven-game homestand with a decisive victory over the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night. The win was their second consecutive victory after picking up a win in St. Louis earlier in the week.
There’s not a lot of runway left in the season, and stringing together a run of victories is at the top of their minds. New Jersey is 11 points out of the final Wild Card spot, and 13 out of third in the Metropolitan Division. Tuesday will mark the Devils final game before the NHL Trade Deadline, which is on Friday at 3 p.m.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are having a down year, based on where the expectations were set heading into the season. The Leafs have struggled to gain any traction in their season and sit just two points ahead of New Jersey with 64. Toronto is 12 points out of third in the Atlantic Division, and nine points out of a Wild Card spot.
The Leafs have a tendency to give up an abundance of shots to their opponents, ranking first in the league in shots against, per game with 31.8, which bodes will for a Devils team that averages 29.4 shots per game, ranking sixth in the league. Despite their overall struggles, the Leafs do have the league’s fourth-best penalty kill, working at an 83.1 percent efficiency.
New Jersey
Former Lumberton, New Jersey, mayor Gina LaPlaca pleads guilty to 2025 DUI, sentenced to treatment program
A former mayor in Burlington County, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to DUI and child endangerment charges after a 2025 traffic stop, according to prosecutors.
Lumberton Township committee member Gina LaPlaca, 46, was indicted last spring on child abuse charges after county prosecutors said she was observed driving drunk with her young child in the car, while serving as the township mayor.
Police arrested her at her home after reviewing video from a witness showing her swerving out of her lane and nearly hitting a utility pole. Lumberton police discovered her blood alcohol concentration was .30%, over three times the legal limit of .08%.
On Monday, LaPlaca was sentenced to three years in a diversionary program for first-time offenders after pleading guilty to driving under the influence and a fourth-degree child abuse charge. As part of the plea deal, LaPlaca will avoid jail time as long as she abides by the terms of the program.
Under the terms of the Pretrial Intervention or PTI program, she must attend regular Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and comply with any requirements set by the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency.
Judge Craig A. Ambrose also ordered LaPlaca to have an ignition lock device on her car that will prevent it from starting up if the driver has consumed alcohol. She said in court she had already installed one in October 2025, the county prosecutor’s office said.
If LaPlaca violates the terms of the PTI program, she could be prosecuted for the child abuse charge.
LaPlaca completed an intensive treatment program in May 2025 and said in a statement that she is “fully committed to my recovery” and is doing the “daily, intentional work” that comes with it. She apologized to Lumberton residents while acknowledging a private struggle with alcohol addiction that was no longer private.
“The weight of my actions is something I carry deeply,” she said in a statement shared on social media. “What I did was wrong. It was dangerous. It was inexcusable. I drove while intoxicated with my child in the car — a choice that could have caused irreversible harm. That reality is something I will live with, and learn from, for the rest of my life.”
LaPlaca served as mayor through 2025 but remains on the township committee. Terrance Benson was sworn in as mayor of Lumberton this year.
NEWARK, New Jersey — A United Airlines flight headed to Newark, New Jersey returned to the Los Angeles airport Monday about 40 minutes after taking off for an emergency evacuation after a reported fire, authorities said.
All flights at the LAX International Airport were ordered to remain on the ground for about half an hour during the flight’s return and evacuation, according to advisories from the Federal Aviation Administration. No injuries were reported.
The flight, which was en route to Newark Liberty International Airport returned to LAX to address an issue with one of the engines, the airline said in a statement. There was no mention of a fire, but the LA Fire Department said it responded and there was a fire that was contained as of an hour after the plane’s landing.
The flight took off at 10:43 a.m., began to turn around at about 11 a.m. and landed again at 11:19 a.m., according to flight tracker FlightAware.
The LA Fire Department said they assisted with the evacuation of more than 250 passengers and crew. Passengers exited the plane on the taxiway using slides and stairs and were taken to the terminal, the airline said.
The airplane was a Boeing 787-9, a variant of the popular line of 787 Dreamliner long-haul aircraft.
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