DJ Chapman

AIPAC (“United Democracy Project”) spent $1.9M to take down Tom Malinowski and prop up Tahesha Way ➡️ She finished a distant 3rd. And they may inadvertently get a more anti-Israel candidate (Mejia) elected Essex County Machine backed Brendan Gill ➡️ He finished a distant 4th

Decision Desk HQ is retracting its projection in the NJ-11 Democratic primary. We have deleted the race projection tweet. At the time of our initial projection, all absentee and early vote had been recorded in all three counties, and we had 66/240 precincts in Essex County (expected to be Analilia Mejia strongest) that had reported election day vote & two election day vote drops in Morris County (expected to be Thomas Malinowski’s strongest). Malinowski had a 4,900 raw vote lead, and the margin he was losing the election day vote in Essex combined with the margin he was winning the election day vote in Morris, provided him a sizable cushion. Even if Mejia’s projected margins were doubled, Malinowski was still projected to win by more than 1,000 votes. As the night progressed, margins in Morris County quickly tilted toward Mejia; Mejia began winning drops by 20%-30%, representing a swing of 65 points compared to the absentee vote. This trend reversal prompted us to re-examine our race projection and ultimately retract it. Our apologies for the inaccurate projection on this race, and we hope our swift retraction and transparency are seen as a sign of our intent to be quick and accurate in all things elections now and going forward. XXXXXXXX