新泽西州和特拉华州的另一轮初选将于周二结束，由于冠状病毒大流行，这两个州都推迟了投票。
新泽西州选择邮寄邮资支付的缺席选票给该州360万注册的民主党和共和党人，而无党派选民可以自己要求缺席投票。新泽西人正在为总统选举、美国众议院选举和投票后的其他地方选举投票。
投票箱可供在初选中投票的选民使用，其中许多人都在激烈争夺国会席位，全州范围内的亲自投票有限。
在特拉华州，只有总统初选还在投票中，但已经基本确定了。特拉华州的选民不像新泽西州的选民那样通过邮件投票，但是缺席投票的规定被扩大，允许不想亲自投票的选民通过邮件请求缺席投票。
新泽西州的初选主要由前民主党众议员杰夫·范·德鲁决定
新泽西州的杰夫·范·德鲁(Jeff Van Drew)可能在很大程度上没有出现在全国的报道中，但他仍然是南泽西的明星。在南泽西，一场由五人组成的民主党竞选已经缩小到两个领先的竞选者，竞争一届国会议员。
2019年12月19日，众议员杰夫·范·德鲁在华盛顿白宫与特朗普总统交谈。约书亚·罗伯茨/路透社
蒙特克莱尔州立大学的政治学教授布里奇德·卡拉汉·哈里森在她的竞选网站上响亮而明确地表达了她对范·德鲁的反对:“杰夫·范·德鲁背叛了我们的信任。加入布里奇德·卡拉汉·哈里森的行列，再次将南泽西变成蓝色。”
卡拉汉·哈里森与艾米·肯尼迪竞选，艾米·肯尼迪是一名前公立学校教师和精神健康倡导者。肯尼迪嫁给了前罗德岛州众议员帕特里克·肯尼迪，随着竞选接近尾声，肯尼迪正在利用她的家庭关系。
与许多其他初选不同的是，两位候选人似乎更专注于在对手和范·德鲁之间进行对比，而不是在彼此之间进行对比。
肯尼迪的竞选团队，根据她的网站，认为哈里森“和杰夫·范·德鲁是一丘之貉”，“不可信任”
卡拉汉·哈里森在谈到肯尼迪时也提出了类似的信任主张，指责肯尼迪的丈夫帕特里克据称资助了一个新成立的外部团体来支持肯尼迪的竞选。
范·德鲁改变政党后，肯尼迪发起了她的竞选，引发了两位民主党人之间的政党支持之战。她获得了民主党州长菲尔·墨菲和该州最大的民主党联盟大西洋县民主党的支持。
与此同时，卡拉汉·哈里森很早就参加了竞选，这让她有机会从南泽西的政治人物那里获得一些关键的支持，包括新泽西州参议员科里·布克、商人乔治·诺克罗斯以及她所在地区八个县中六个县的政党。
医疗保健在第三国会选区的民主党人中占主导地位
在该州第三个国会选区的隔壁，民主党众议员安迪·金(Andy Kim)是唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统2016年赢得的30个选区的民主党人之一，他可能在周二的初选中没有对手，但几个月后将面临最艰难的改选。
2020年6月24日，众议员安迪·金在DC华盛顿的新闻发布会上发言。迈克尔·布罗克斯坦/美国国家情报保护局
这位民主党新生在2018年以微弱优势(不到两个百分点)将他的选区从费城郊区延伸到泽西海岸，主要是在医疗保健问题上。现在，作为冠状病毒两党委员会的成员，他坐在众议院监督应对冠状病毒大流行的第一线，他告诉美国广播公司新闻，冠状病毒“强化”了他最初进入政治领域的原因。
他说:“我做过的每一个市政厅——我做过的22个市政厅——我都一直听说医疗保健。"这只会加剧导致我竞选公职的担忧。"
金说，他看到了郊区反对共和党的证据，部分原因是总统对病毒的反应。
他说:“我知道，我采访过的一些共和党人和支持特朗普的人，在总统发表关于摄入来苏消毒剂的言论后，他们中的一些人向我传达了这一点，这只是他们的最后一根稻草。”。“我一直看到这种转变——这种认识——这位总统在这场危机和这场流行病中没有尽到保护我们的责任。”
两位共和党人将在11月与金竞争:商人大卫·里克特和前伯灵顿郡自由人凯特·吉布斯。
里克特最初在第二选区提出与当时的民主党人范·德鲁竞选，但在范·德鲁的政党更迭后，他跳槽到了其他选区。作为特朗普的盟友，里克特1月28日在新泽西州维尔德伍德的总统集会上发起了他的国会竞选，并获得了全国步枪协会等机构的支持。
吉布斯在2018年的伯灵顿郡自由人委员会竞选中落选，她得到了该郡共和党委员会、州参议院少数党领袖小汤姆·基恩和共和党支持的主要街道伙伴委员会的支持，该委员会倡导中间派政策提案和两党立法。
该州其他地区的一些进步挑战者正在与民主党人竞争:在第五国会选区，由伯尼·桑德斯参议员支持的阿拉提·克赖比奇(Arati Kreibich)正在挑战2016年推翻席位的众议员乔希·戈特海默(Josh Gottheimer)。在第六国会选区，两位进步人士正在争夺众议院能源和商业主席小弗兰克·帕隆的席位
在第七届，支持卡拉汉·哈里森的州参议院少数党领袖小汤姆·基恩，希望能在初选中战胜新生民主党众议员汤姆·马林诺夫斯基。
选票将于当地时间周二下午7点回到新泽西选举官员手中。投票箱将会开放，投票中心也会有有限的亲自投票。
在特拉华州，每个县至少有六个投票站可以运作。缺席选票必须在周二下午8点前提交进行统计。
Congressional races in New Jersey center around party loyalty, while progressive challengers look to oust moderate Democrats
Yet another round of primaries are coming to a close Tuesday in New Jersey and Delaware, which both delayed their voting due to the coronavirus pandemic.
New Jersey opted to mail postage-paid absentee ballots to every one of the state's 3.6 million registered Democrats and Republicans, while unaffiliated voters can request an absentee ballot on their own. New Jerseyans are casting ballots for the presidential race, U.S. House races and other local races further down the ballot.
Ballot drop boxes are available for voters casting a ballot in the primary races, many of which have closely contested Congressional battles afoot, with limited in-person voting around the state.
In Delaware, solely the presidential primary, which has all but been decided, is on the ballot. Voters in Delaware were not mailed ballots like those in New Jersey, but absentee ballot provisions were expanded to allow voters who did not want to vote in-person to request an absentee ballot through the mail.
New Jersey primaries largely dictated by ex-Democrat, Rep. Jeff Van Drew
Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., may be largely absent from the national narrative, but he is still the star of the show in South Jersey, where a five-person Democratic race has narrowed to two front-runners bidding to challenge the one-term congressman.
Brigid Callahan Harrison, a political science professor at Montclair State University, states her opposition to Van Drew loud and clear on her campaign's website: "Jeff Van Drew betrayed our trust. Join Brigid Callahan Harrison to turn South Jersey blue, again."
Callahan Harrison is running against Amy Kennedy, a former public school teacher and mental health advocate. Kennedy, who is married to former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy, is tapping into her familial connections as the campaign comes to a heated close.
Not unlike many other primaries, both of the candidates seem to be more focused on drawing comparisons between their opponents and Van Drew versus contrasts on each other.
Kennedy's campaign, according to her website, argues that Harrison is "cut from the same cloth as Jeff Van Drew" and "cannot be trusted."
Callahan Harrison is making similar claims about trust when it comes to Kennedy, accusing Kennedy's husband Patrick of reportedly funding a newly created outside group to support Kennedy’s bid.
Kennedy launched her bid after Van Drew made his party switch, setting in motion the battle for party support between the two Democrats. She nabbed an endorsement from Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and the Atlantic County Democrats, the largest Democratic coalition in the state.
Meanwhile Callahan Harrison's early entry into the race gave her the opportunity to scoop some key support from political figures around South Jersey including Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., businessman George Norcross and from county parties in six of the eight counties in her district.
Health care dominates for Democrats in the 3rd Congressional District
Next door in the state's 3rd Congressional District, Democratic Rep. Andy Kim, one of 30 Democrats in districts President Donald Trump won in 2016, might be unopposed in his primary Tuesday, but faces one of the toughest reelections just a few months from now.
The freshman Democrat flipped his district, which stretches from the suburbs of Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore, from red to blue in 2018 by the narrowest of margins -- less than two points -- largely on the issue of health care. Now, as he sits on the front lines of the House's oversight of the response to the coronavirus pandemic as a member of the bipartisan committee on the coronavirus, he told ABC News that the coronavirus has "reinforced" what brought him into the political sphere in the first place.
"Every town hall that I've done -- 22 town halls that I've done -- I consistently hear about health care," he said. "This only exacerbates the concerns that led me to run for office."
Kim said he is seeing evidence of a suburban revolt against Republicans, in part, driven by president's response to the virus.
"I know that a number of people that I've talked to who were Republicans and supported Trump, a number of them kind of relayed to me, after the president's comments about ingesting Lysol, that's just kind of the final straw for them," he said. "I am consistently seeing that type of shift - this recognition - that this president has failed in his responsibilities in securing us during this crisis and this pandemic."
Two Republicans are vying to take on Kim in November: businessman David Richter and former Burlington County Freeholder Kate Gibbs.
Richter had originally filed in the 2nd district to run against then-Democrat Van Drew, but hopped districts after Van Drew's party switch. A Trump ally, Richter launched his bid for Congress at the president's Jan. 28 rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, and has touted endorsements from the National Rifle Association, among others.
Gibbs, who lost her reelection bid to the Burlington County Board of Freeholders in 2018, has endorsements from the county's Republican Committee, state Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr and the GOP-aligned Main Street Partnership PAC, which advocates for centrist policy proposals and bipartisan legislation.
A number of progressive challengers are running against Democrats in other districts across the state: in the 5th Congressional District, Arati Kreibich, who is backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, is challenging Rep. Josh Gottheimer, who flipped the seat in 2016. In the 6th Congressional District, two progressives are vying to unseat House Energy and Commerce Chairman Rep. Frank Pallone Jr.
In the 7th, state Senate Minority Leader, Tom Kean Jr., who endorsed Callahan Harrison, is hoping for a primary win to take on freshman Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski.
Ballots are due back into the hands of New Jersey elections officials by 7 p.m. local time on Tuesday. Drop boxes will be available, as well as limited in-person voting at polling centers.
In Delaware, at least six polling places will be operational in each county. Absentee ballots must be submitted by 8 p.m. Tuesday to count.
