By SOPHIE NIETO-MUNOZ
New Jersey Monitor
Justin Murphy claimed the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate on June 2, defeating three primary opponents in his bid to unseat incumbent Sen. Cory Booker, in November, the Associated Press projects.
Murphy, an attorney who once sat on the Tabernacle Township Committee, faces an uphill climb. New Jersey voters have not sent a Republican to the Senate since 1972.
Booker, a three-term incumbent with a national profile who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, enters the general election with a massive financial advantage. As of mid-May, he was sitting on $22 million in campaign funds. The candidates in the Republican primary on June 2 raised about $225,000 total this cycle.
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