NJ-12: Sue Altman (D) gets backing from Princeton grassroots progressive group

The Princeton Community Democratic Organization, a key Central Jersey grassroots progressive group, held a forum with all 17 of the Democratic candidates running for the 12th congressional district last night, and Sue Altman emerged with the group’s endorsement.

Altman, a former leader of the state Working Families Party and the 2024 Democratic nominee for the neighboring 7th district, got 65% of the vote in the second round of voting, while Adam Hamawy, a former Army combat surgeon, got 29%. (Six percent of ballots did not rank either Altman or Hamawy.)

In the first round of voting, Altman got 55 votes (36%) and Hamawy got 29 (19%). They were followed by Princeton professor Sam Wang (18 votes, 12%), Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (17 votes, 11%), and former Energy Department official Jay Vaingankar (13 votes, 8%), all of whom live in Mercer County. The other 12 candidates in attendance received six or fewer votes each; four of them got no votes at all.

(The PCDO conducts endorsement votes using an instant runoff ranked-choice system: participants can rank as many candidates as they wish on their ballots, and the top two vote-getters advance to the second round, at which point ballots cast for any other candidate are re-allocated to the two finalists. Endorsements are awarded to any candidate who crosses the 60% threshold either in the first or second round of calculations.)


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