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Noel King talks to Dave Wasserman from the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, who discusses emerging trends in U.S. House races. KING: OK, all 435 House seats are up for election in November. WASSERMAN: And this is the record number of Republican open seats since at least 1930. Does it seem like the Republican Party to you is firmly in the grasp of President Trump? But many of them are deciding, why put up with the White House when I could leave for a different job? WASSERMAN: Yes. Democrats are funding their candidates to record levels in a lot of districts. But a lot of the Democrats who were open to voting for Trump in 2016 might be coming back into the Democratic fold. KING: Do voters tend to care about a government shutdown? And what we saw in 2016 - about 1 in every 5 voters disliked both parties' presidential candidates.

The state’s second district, represented by retiring Republican Frank LoBiondo, is also considered a likely Democratic win this November. This year’s congressional elections have become charged by the #MeToo movement and Trump’s bombastic tenure. It took John Alexander more than nine years to get back the $200 a municipal court judge ordered seized from his personal belongings. Asbury Park Press Read more Could New Jersey Go Back to Paper Ballots? Phil Murphy’s proposed revenue raisers if I were still a legislator. Associated Press Read more Murphy, State Governors Challenge Trump’s Title X Abortion Restrictions President Donald Trump and his administration have received pushback from several Democratic state leaders, including Gov. Phil Murphy, on a move to restrict Title X-funded health providers from referring patients for abortion. Press of Atlantic City Read more Lawmakers Advance Jersey City Payroll Tax Bill A plan to create a 1 percent payroll tax for Jersey City businesses advanced Monday when a state senate committee approved the bill by a party-line vote. NJ.com Read more Editorial: NJ Voting Technology Must Include Paper Record As New Jersey voters go to the polls in this year’s June primary elections, it is sobering to note that the voting machines on which the great majority will be casting their ballots represent “fatally flawed technology” that is in sore need of updating. The Record Read more Editorial: Root Out the Evil in Municipal Court System It has been 71 years since the authors of the 1947 New Jersey Constitution that created the current municipal court system warned about the dangers if the system was left in the hands of locally elected officials.