Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, left, and former radio host Bill Spadea are among those running this year to succeed Gov. Phil Murphy. (Photos by Fran Baltzer/Hal Brown) Two more gubernatorial candidates ...
New Jersey’s governor’s race this year, one of just two along with Virginia, is emerging as a proving ground for Democrats ...
Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark and a Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey, is campaigning on a progressive platform. Baraka is challenging the traditional suburban strategy employed by ...
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is best-known, most well-liked candidate among six Democrats A new poll suggests New Jersey Democrats have several strong contenders in the race for governor. The Fairleigh ...
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is making a bet on progressivism in the race for governor of New Jersey. President Donald Trump seems to be helping his cause. Baraka, the longtime mayor of New Jersey’s ...
Three months before the big primary election, a new poll finds Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is the most-known and most-liked candidate by Democratic voters in the six-person fight for the party’s ...
Democratic voters weighed in on the candidates’ favorability. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka leads the pack with 43%, followed by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill ...
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka delivered pushback immediately, although stopping the President Donald Trump deportation juggernaut seems unlikely. “Without satisfying city property-use requirements ...
A progressive organization’s Zoom event with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka to discuss his campaign for New Jersey governor was abruptly cancelled on Sunday after a racist and pornographic cyber attack ...
Two more gubernatorial candidates will seek public matching dollars after reporting they have raised and spent enough money to qualify, their campaigns told the New Jersey Monitor. The campaigns ...
Some candidates, like Ras Baraka, advocate for strong resistance and progressive policies, believing Democrats can win based on their base. Others, like Stephen Sweeney and Josh Gottheimer ...