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Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Trump endorses New Jersey Republican not seen since March

A man in glasses and suit and tie sits and listens
Tom Kean at a House foreign affairs subcommittee meeting in Washington in December 2023. Photograph: Mariam Zuhaib/AP

On the day Donald Trump endorsed him as a tireless advocate for New Jersey’s seventh district, the representative Tom Kean Jr was, as he has been since early March, nowhere to be found.

Kean, a New Jersey Republican, was last seen when he cast a House floor vote on 5 March, and he is running unopposed in Tuesday’s Republican primary. The Democratic race in his district, meanwhile, had attracted multiple candidates and ample fundraising, with navy helicopter pilot Rebecca Bennett winning the primary on Tuesday.

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