Justin Murphy, winner of Tuesday’s New Jersey Republican Senate primary and incumbent Dem Cory Booker’s opponent in November, has negative $23.71 in his campaign account, according to FEC filings viewed by Politico, an impressive figure amounting to negative 0.00010491083 percent of the positive $22,600,143.69 Booker has in cash on hand and setting up a real David vs Goliath scenario when it comes to ad spending, staffing, staging campaign events, and so on.
More seriously, of course nobody realistically expects Murphy to actually win and it would be stupid for the NRSC, RNC, and other GOP institutions to make a meaningful investment in New Jersey when they’re playing defense elsewhere. That being said, as Politico points out, Murphy’s still at the top of the Republican ticket in the Garden State where there’s still red turf to be defended in the House, specifically the 7th District represented by Tom Kean Jr, who hasn’t been seen in public in three months. So they might want to try to slap something together for Murphy and make some kind of moves pretending to New Jersey MAGA voters that Murphy has a realistic shot against Booker.