Kim will lead effort to oust Jim Beach; fires warning shot at some Democratic legislators

In a bold declaration that he’s prepared to take on feckless state lawmakers who follow the orders of party bosses, U.S. Senator Andy Kim will support a challenge to State Sen. Jim Beach (D-Voorhees) in the Democratic primary in 2027 and will help recruit primary opponents to run against other incumbent lawmakers he views as impediments to anti-corruption measures.

“I’m going to be stepping up to get involved across this state and make sure we’re taking on elected officials who have been standing up and protecting the machine politics — standing against what we’re trying to do to fight corruption, and that needs to end,” Kim said in a video he released this morning.

Kim ran for the House three times with organizational support, but in late 2023, he mounted an insurgent bid for the U.S. Senate, joining the race one day after a sweeping federal corruption indictment was unsealed against incumbent Bob Menendez.

Beach, the 79-year-old Camden County Democratic chairman and a six-term senator, may be the first to make it on Kim’s target list, but the freshman U.S. Senator is planning to recruit legislative candidates in other districts in 2027, if necessary




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