Republicans Rain on Murphy's Morris Parade

RANDOLPH – When the SUV carrying Phil Murphy got to this morning’s Democratic rally in a township park, it was followed by an interloper, a truck with signs urging support for Republicans Anthony M. Bucco and Aura Dunn.

Hudson County style politics in bucolic Morris. Go figure?

The driver of the truck, incidentally, said he was hired by a Republican consultant, but wasn’t all that familiar with the issue at hand.

The issue here is a tight race in LD-25, the only Legislative race on the agenda this year. The presidential race may overshadow just about everything, but this election is a big deal locally.

Fresh from winning two congressional seats and narrowing the registration gap, Democrats hope they can grab a Senate and an Assembly seat in a district that covers northern and western Morris and one town in Somerset, Bernardsville.

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