Today is a big day for the 2026 midterm season, with primaries in California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota. While the national media’s attention is fixated on the Golden State’s jungle primaries for governor and LA mayor – (will it be a Pratt summer?) – a Trump endorsement in a lower-profile race caught Cockburn’s eye last night.

“Congressman Tom Kean is a Great Representative for the People of New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District!” President Trump wrote on Truth Social, describing how the Republican has been “working tirelessly” to advance Trump policy goals. “GET OUT AND VOTE FOR TOM — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!”

Questions have been raised in recent months about how tirelessly, exactly, Kean has been working: he has not been seen in public since March.

The congressman attended 359 of 361 House roll-call votes in 2025. A spokesman told local press back in March that Kean was “addressing a personal health matter.” As the days dragged on, colleagues said he had not been answering their texts. His chief of staff told the New York Times in May, eerily, “There’s no cameras where Tom is.”

Kean has no........

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