Jersey City residents elected James Solomon mayor on Dec. 2, ending former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey’s hopes to make a political comeback in the race.
AP called the race at 8:40 p.m. with Solomon, a member of Jersey City’s City Council since 2017, collecting just under 68 percent of the vote to McGreevey’s 32 percent.
Neither received more than 50 percent of the vote during the Nov. 4 election, sending the race to a runoff.
The race mostly drew attention due to McGreevey’s entry into the race.
It represents the first time that the former governor ran for a public office since resigning the New Jersey governorship in 2004, an incident mostly remembered for McGreevey’s statement at the time, “I am a gay American.”…