{"id":413,"date":"2026-06-03T05:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:17:39","slug":"cape-may-mayor-zack-mullock-wins-democratic-primary-to-challenge-u-s-rep-jeff-van-drew-in-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Cape May Mayor Zack Mullock wins Democratic primary to challenge U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew in the fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cape May Mayor Zack Mullock won the Democratic primary to face U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, the Associated Press projected.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=411\">Phillies grind out a 3-2 win over the Padres behind steady pitching from Aaron Nola and bullpen<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Mullock, 40, defeated Bayly Winder, the best-funded candidate with experience in the federal government, civil rights attorney and former nominee Tim Alexander, and grassroots candidate Terri Reese to become the Democratic nominee for the 2nd Congressional district.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe will fight for South Jersey,\u201d he said to a crowd of supporters Tuesday night at Cape May\u2019s Chalfonte Hotel, which his family owns. \u201cWhat happens next is bigger than one candidate, bigger than one election. This is about whether South Jersey will finally have the representation that it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>When he took the stage around 9:45 p.m., Mullock joked he had had a concession speech written. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cGive it to Van Drew!\u201d a supporter shouted. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The Jersey Shore mayor raised nearly $200,000 and loaned his campaign $110,000, leaving him with the second-highest amount money in his coffers \u2014 though Winder still had more than double that along with a super PAC supporting him \u2014 as of May 13.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The sprawling South Jersey district includes parts of the Philadelphia suburbs andcoversfarmland, shore towns, and Atlantic City casinos. Van Drewwas first elected to the seat in 2018 as a Democrat, butbecame a Republican one year later and declared loyalty to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cFor the last eight years, I\u2019ve been working across the aisle to accomplish things, and, frankly, speaking the language of people that we\u2019re going to need to talk to to win this election,\u201d Mullock said in an interview last month, referring to his time on the local city council and as mayor in the nonpartisan local government.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Quanette Vasser-McNeal, the head of the Cape May County NAACP who attended Mullock\u2019s election night party, said his local experience would give him the tools to compete with Van Drew in November. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=409\">Here\u2019s who won New Jersey congressional primaries on Tuesday<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHow does he beat Van Drew?\u201d Vasser-McNeal continued. \u201cBy actually being authentic to who he is, being consistent. He\u2019s already the mayor of Cape May and being a true people person and for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Mullock dominated the polls in his home Cape May County and its bordering counties, Atlantic and Cumberland. His victory suggests his deep ties to the district were more powerful than Winder\u2019s deep campaign coffers.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Joseph Viso, 21, the president of Stockton University Democrats, supported Winder and was surprised by the results, but conceded that the race came down to who had more roots in the district. Winder had just moved to South Jersey shortly before launching his campaign last year.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt became a big question towards the end, of whose roots are truly invested in South Jersey,\u201d said Viso, the grandson of former U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo, a Republican who represented the district from 1995 until Van Drew replaced him in 2019.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><iframe frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/interactives.inquirer.com\/embeds\/2026-election-results\/EMBED\/index.html?election=2026\/primary\/nj\/live&amp;id=us-house-nj-2-dem\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><iframe aria-label=\"Choropleth map\" data-external=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-DKy9I\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/DKy9I\/3\/\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"Democratic Primary for N.J.\u2019s 2nd Congressional District\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Around the same time, the Trump administration was pushing for the removal of a slavery exhibit at the President\u2019s House across the river in Philadelphia. Mullock said Van Drew\u2019s silence was that final push he needed.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cTo think that by the decree of one man, they would take down the history of slavery, and our representative just stood silent, and that just bothered the heck out of me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>But the soft-spoken Mullock said after his primary victory that he would best Van Drew \u201cnot with anger but with \u201cneighbors talking to neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=407\">Former Philly police officer convicted of perjury for lying about traffic stop<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><i>Staff writers Al Lubrano and Dana Munro contributed reporting.<\/i><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape May Mayor Zack Mullock won a four-way Democratic primary to face Republican Jeff Van Drew in South Jersey&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-jersey","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cape May Mayor Zack Mullock wins Democratic primary to challenge U.S. Rep. 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