US Midterms 2026
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Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat who has represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district since 2017 and ran for governor in 2025, seeks re-election in 2026 against Republican Sean Kirrane, a corporate consultant.
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Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) attended the Hillsdale Annual Fall Festival in Hillsdale, NJ, gathering with Jersey families, small business owners, elected officials, and law enforcement to celebrate the fall season and North…
A bipartisan bill introduced on Sept. 9 by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) seeks to regulate AI agents by rejecting self-attestation as the sole basis for compliance.
The article discusses Democratic leadership dynamics in the House, highlighting Rep. Katherine Clark as a potential top leader if Democrats win the chamber.
Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) visited St. Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ramsey, NJ, meeting with Ukrainian community members and faith leaders.
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Josh Gottheimer was born on March 8, 1975, in Livingston, New Jersey, to Jewish parents, a preschool teacher and a small business owner, and stocked shelves at his father's store growing up. At 16 he served as a U.S. Senate page for Senator Frank Lautenberg.
He graduated from West Essex High School in 1993 and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts in American history. On a Thouron Award he studied toward a Ph.D. in modern history at Pembroke College, Oxford, and in 2004 he received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
He is married to Marla Tusk.
Gottheimer joined the Clinton administration as a speechwriter in 1998 and stayed until 2001, later advising the presidential campaigns of Wesley Clark, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. He worked as director of strategic communications at Ford Motor Company, became an executive vice president at Burson-Marsteller in 2006, worked at the Federal Communications Commission from 2010 to 2012, and then became a strategist at Microsoft.
In 2016 Gottheimer defeated seven-term Republican incumbent Scott Garrett with 51.1% of the vote to 46.7%, and he won re-election in 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024. In 2025 he ran for governor of New Jersey, placing fourth in the June 10 Democratic primary with 11.8% as Mikie Sherrill won the nomination.
In the 119th Congress he sits on the Committee on Financial Services and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where he is ranking member of the Subcommittee on National Security Agency and Cyber. He is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition and the Problem Solvers Caucus.
New Jersey's 5th congressional district stretches across the state's northern border with New York, from Sussex to Bergen counties, and Josh Gottheimer holds it as the Democratic incumbent after being re-elected with 54.6% of the vote in 2024.
Following his loss in the 2025 gubernatorial primary, he sought re-election to the House and was unopposed in the Democratic primary with 38,077 votes.
In the general election on November 3, 2026, he faces Republican Sean Kirrane, a corporate consultant who won the Bergen County Republican convention and was unopposed in his primary.
