Looks like we're going to get another RINO in congress. The "Line" is almost impossible to beat in NJ. Local political establishment controls primary ballot construction and positioning to ensure its as confusing as possible.
https://gothamist.com/news/local-nj-democrats-want-election-ballot-reform-party-bosses-are-skeptical
Even democrats at the grassroots level support this change but democrats and the republican establishment will block it everytime.
https://nationalfile.com/new-jersey-gop-establishment-backs-anti-trump-candidate-for-congress/
>Tayfun Selen narrowly won the endorsement of the Morris County Republicans earlier this month in a process that critics, including Anderson’s campaign, say was marred by impropriety and even potential fraud. In the 11th District, the endorsement of the Morris County Republicans, also called the local “party line,” is a prized nod of approval and local Republicans vote to decide who the New Jersey district will endorse for congress, in a process that is often compared to a miniature primary or convention.
>The voting process that led to the Morris County Republicans endorsing Selen has kicked up such a controversy that a large swath of voters signed on to a letter demanding the party hold a new vote, pointing to rule violations and inconsistencies in the vote count that could indicate outright fraud. Votes were even counted in secret and the number of ballots doesn’t match the number of voters, but party bosses say that a new vote isn’t going to happen. Additionally, their endorsement of Selen and all of the benefits that go along with it, will stand.
>The Morris County Republicans even circulated an email attacking Anderson and those who have questioned the vote, claiming that they’ve investigated themselves and found no evidence of their own wrongdoing. Despite their claims, the local party has failed to prove that the vote was fair or even legally conducted, leading to Anderson and a chorus of grassroots conservatives to call for this year’s endorsement to be thrown out altogether.
> After becoming a town committeeman in New Jersey’s Chatham Township, Selen became the first Turkish-born Mayor in the United States when he allegedly made a deal with the committee’s Democrats to elect him, an event he has sought to bury in the annals of his own political history.
> Selen now sits on the Morris County Commission and makes it very clear that he is no conservative. He’s even outright said “I do not consider myself a conservative Republican.”
>Tayfun Selen has taken frequent opportunities to remind the press in both America and Turkey of that fact, once boasting to Turkish media that electing him was the equivalent of a “slap in the face” to President Trump and his supporters. Selen then reminded the Turkish media that when he joined the GOP, “Trump wasn’t President” and claimed that electing a Turkish-born candidate would send a “message” to the GOP and the American people.