Tom Malinowski concedes in special election to fill Gov. Mikie Sherrill's seat in Congress

Former Rep. Tom Malinowski has conceded the New Jersey peculiar predetermination to capable Gov. Mikie Sherrill's legislature seat. 

Malinowski was 1 of 11 candidates connected the Democratic ballot for the 11th Congressional District. He had been neck-and-neck with Analilia Mejia. 

Mejia, who held a slim pb implicit Malinowski, is expected to big a quality league aboriginal Tuesday day with supporters.

"I congratulate Analilia Mejia connected her hard won triumph successful the NJ-11 peculiar primary. I look guardant to supporting her successful the April wide election. It is indispensable that we nonstop a Democrat to Washington to capable this seat, not a rubber stamp for Donald Trump," Malinowski said successful his concession. "I americium arrogant of the joyful and substantive run my squad and I ran, and americium immensely grateful to the volunteers and unit who made it possible." 

A crowded tract of 11 candidates ran successful the Democratic superior seeking the information for the district, which covers parts of Morris, Essex and Passaic Counties. 

Mejia volition look Republican campaigner Joe Hathaway, the politician of Randolph, connected April 16. 

Mejia antecedently worked for Sen. Bernie Sanders during his 2020  statesmanlike bid, and was endorsed some by Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

Sen. Cory Booker congratulated Mejia, saying the territory "deserves a typical who volition basal up against the harm Trump and Republicans are doing to our state." 

"I saw the grassroots vigor up adjacent erstwhile I campaigned with her. This infinitesimal is seismic due to the fact that it proves, again, that erstwhile we stake connected mundane people, mundane radical win," Rep. Adriano Espaillat said. "The radical spoke—and they moved the crushed beneath our politics. 

Espaillat called Mejia a "proven progressive who has done the work." 

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