Kean embraces Trump’s cult, tarnishing the family name | Moran

Congressman Leonard Lance and Peter Jacobs face off in debate

Senator Tom Kean, Jr. (R-Union) D-21) barred reporters and photographers from a campaign launch event with Rep. Kevin McCarthy Wednesday. (Robert Sciarrino | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) NJAMNJAM

State Sen. Tom Kean Jr. has the best name in New Jersey politics, thanks to his father, a famously independent thinker who inspired trust across the partisan divide, a Republican who won 62 percent of the Black vote when he was elected to a second term as governor in a 1985 landslide.

So why is Kean Jr. squandering that legacy? Why is he lining up with the most reactionary wing of the Republican Party?

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