{"id":74339,"date":"2026-06-02T14:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/trump-endorses-absent-republican-incumbent-in-new-jersey-house-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:55:23","slug":"trump-endorses-absent-republican-incumbent-in-new-jersey-house-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/trump-endorses-absent-republican-incumbent-in-new-jersey-house-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump endorses absent Republican incumbent in New Jersey House primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Kean has been out with health issue since March. Democrats are sharpening their knives for general election<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jun\/02\/donald-trump-primaries-midterms-california-governor-iran-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> endorsed him as a tireless advocate for New Jersey\u2019s seventh district, the representative Tom Kean Jr was, as he has been since early March, nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p>Kean, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-jersey\">New Jersey<\/a> Republican, was last seen when he cast a House floor vote on 5 March, and he is running unopposed in Tuesday\u2019s Republican primary. The Democratic race in his district, meanwhile, has attracted multiple candidates and ample fundraising.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/02\/new-jersey-tom-kean-republican-primary-trump-endorsement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Kean has been out with health issue since March. Democrats are sharpening their knives for general election US politics live \u2013 latest updates On the day Donald Trump endorsed him as a tireless advocate for New Jersey\u2019s seventh district, the representative Tom Kean Jr was, as he has been since early March, nowhere to &#8230; <a title=\"Trump endorses absent Republican incumbent in New Jersey House primary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/trump-endorses-absent-republican-incumbent-in-new-jersey-house-primary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump endorses absent Republican incumbent in New Jersey House primary\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}