Special Senate Race

Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. says he was trying not to sound like a policy nerd as he explained how stop-gap federal funds allow HIV and AIDS patients with no other means to access housing, medications and groceries.

Steve Lonegan is not a standard-issue moderate New Jersey Republican, which he proved with his campaign event Friday when he went to one of the nation's poorest cities to bash not just an opponent but decades of anti-poverty policy.

New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker has raised $4.6 million in the past three months as he seeks a U.S. Senate seat in a special election.