Southern NJ Democratic leaders endorse Booker DEPTFORD, N.J. (AP) — Democratic leaders from seven southern New Jersey counties have given their support to Newark Mayor Cory Booker in the special U.S. Senate primary election. After the endorsement, Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald said local party leaders would focus their fundraising on November legislative races.

Booker to appear with top southern NJ Democrats DEPTFORD, N.J. (AP) — Newark Mayor Cory Booker is heading to southern New Jersey for a U.S. Senate campaign event with some of the region's top elected Democrats, including state Senate President Stephen Sweeney. [...] it remains unclear if Democratic leaders in south Jersey would mobilize their extensive get-out-the-vote operations on Booker's ...

Newark Mayor Cory Booker announced he hired another veteran of President Barack Obama's campaign team to join his Senate campaign in New Jersey.

NEWARK, N.J. — Newark Mayor Cory Booker is the favorite to win a fast-paced race for U.S. Senate set off by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg this month.But this is not the race Booker expected to run. The charismatic leader planned to campaign a year from now, when the seat would be open as Lautenberg retired. So he hasn't ...

There may be just one thing that stands between Cory Booker and victory in the Garden State's special election for a Senate seat: the Jersey Shore.