Incumbent Republican Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. is expected to win re-election Tuesday night to represent the New Jersey party. hotly contested 7th Congressional District in the House of Representatives.
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The contest was widely seen as one of the most competitive races in the state and was considered a battleground as the district voted for President Biden in 2020.
Kean was Republicans’ 175th projected victory of the evening, according to the Associated Press count at the time of the race.
In this combination photo, Sue Altman speaks at a public forum, August 23, 2016, in Bordentown, NJ, left, and Tom Kean Jr., RN.J., speaks at a press conference in Kiev, Ukraine, April 22. 2024. (AP photo)
The seat has alternated between Republican and Democrat for several cycles, with Kean first elected in 2022.
Kean worked for former President George HW Bush and served in both the New Jersey General Assembly and the Senate. He is the grandson of former U.S. Representative Robert Kean and the son of former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean Sr.
Kean said this cycle he was most focused on the economy and keeping “costs down for families” in his district.
Republican Party member Thomas Kean Jr. is seen during a press conference on April 22, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Vitalii Nosach/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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Meanwhile, Altman is a former women’s basketball player for Columbia University. She later played professionally in Europe for Killester in the Irish Women’s Super League in Dublin and for Medical Instinct Veilchen in Goettingen, Germany.
Altman has said she grew up in a family of Republicans, but that her time at Columbia made her more liberal.
Sue Altman attends the Green New Deal Network Day of Action meeting during the #SealTheDeal for Climate, Jobs, Care, and Justice national day of action on August 19, 2021 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network)
Protecting women in sports has been a hot topic this election cycle as Republicans seek to keep biological males out of women’s sports leagues and locker rooms.
Altman told the New York Post that she and others in women’s locker rooms are not concerned about the presence of transgender athletes. Altman also advocated allowing transgender athletes in girls’ sports at the youth level, but suggested she would be in favor of leaving the decision up to individual committees to allow those athletes to compete.
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New Jersey’s 7th congressional district is one of several seats around New York City that could determine who controls the House.
Fox News Power Rankings showed the district leans Republican.
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Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.