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Navy veteran and attorney Justin Murphy won New Jersey's four-way Republican Senate primary on June 2, 2026 with just 33% of the vote, setting up a general election against two-term Democratic incumbent Cory Booker. The race features one of the starkest fundraising disparities in modern Senate history — Booker's $30 million war chest versus Murphy's $15,453 — in a state that has not elected a Republican senator since 1972.