NJ 12th Congressional District Results: Coleman Wins

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman appears set to meet Republican Mark Razzoli in November's general elections following Tuesday night's primary races.

The incumbent Democrat is the projected winner over challenger Lisa McCormick in the 12th Congressional District Democratic Primary, according to The Trentonian and the New Jersey Globe.

Razzoli ran uncontested in the Republican Primary, and appears set to meet Coleman in the Nov. 3 elections. The results below were being reported by The Associated Press as of 11:55 p.m.:

12th Congressional District Democratic Primary (206 of 544 precincts reporting)

• Bonnie Watson Coleman: 34,999 (90.36 percent)
• Lisa McCormick: 3,735 (9.64 percent)

The 12th Congressional District includes parts of Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties.

"Thank you to everyone who voted for my Primary campaign in the 12th Congressional District," Coleman said via Twitter on Tuesday. "This is an important first step, but we have a lot more work to do between now and November to make sure our country moves on from the horrible leader we currently have in the White House."

Coleman, the first Black woman to represent New Jersey in Congress, is wrapping up her third term in the House of Representatives. She was first elected in 2014, when she defeated Republican Alieta Eck to succeed the retiring Rush Holt. In 2016, she defeated Republican Stephen Uccio and in 2018, she defeated Daryl Kipnis.

In this campaign, Coleman received endorsements from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

"During her time in Congress, Bonnie Watson Coleman has established herself as a national voice for our shared progressive values," Warren said in her endorsement. "I'm proud to call her a colleague, and I hope the people she represents in New Jersey recognized all the tremendous work she is doing in Washington on their behalf."

McCormick has worked in publishing for the last 15 years. Her family includes her 20-year-old son Jesse A. McCormick, III who is a junior at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

After graduating from JP Stevens High School in Edison, she attended the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) for three years and earned a certificate in office automation from Cittone Institute. She said she's advocating a progressive agenda to "address the broken political and economic systems that have essentially legalized bribery, permitted overt racial segregation throughout New Jersey and undermined almost all the advances of the 20th Century."