BREAKING: Congressional Candidate Says Bergen Line Goes To Mehta

Rik Mehta

Republican candidate for Congress in CD9 Billy Prempeh announced on his Facebook page, “Due to the COVID-19 outbreak the convention in Bergen County has been cancelled. After much debate Bergen county has decided to move forward with the Policy committee's decision and award the Bergen county lines to Rik Mehta for Senate, John McCann, and myself.”

I’d doubt anyone will complain about the lines for the congressional races, but if recent history is any indication Rik Mehta is about to start getting attacked again on social media and the process will again be attacked as “rigged” or “fixed” and some will complain about “political bosses.”

If those attacks start again I would be left to wonder how the process could be “fixed” only in the counties Mehta wins. The answer would be simple, the process wasn’t “fixed” just like it wasn’t in any of the other counties that went to Hirsh Singh.

The Senate campaign has already become a two person race between Mehta and Singh with Mehta being the clear frontrunner and Tricia Flanagan and Natalie Rivera both content to play the roles of spoiler, but the line going to Mehta in Bergen may in fact be the final blow to Singh’s campaign.