NJ-02: Northfield Democrat will run to take on Jeff Van Drew

Terri Reese says that when she began meeting with Democratic groups and showing up at rallies around Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis)’s district this year, she asked her fellow activists who would take up the mantle against the congressman in the 2026 midterm elections. No one was able to give her a definitive answer.

“At the very first meeting that I went to, I asked the question, ‘Who is running against Jeff Van Drew?’” Reese said. “‘They need to start today – to start calling out the things that are happening today. We can’t wait until March of 2026.’ And nobody could answer that question.”

“I got tired of waiting,” she continued. “So I said, ‘I’m going to put myself out there.’”

Reese – a former retail store manager, a single mom of two adult kids, and a lifelong Atlantic County resident – decided last month that she would run against Van Drew, who has represented a conservative-leaning swath of South Jersey in Congress since 2019. The 58-year-old Northfield Democrat has never run for office before and only recently became directly involved in politics, but she said that she has what it takes to take Van Drew down.



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