Cory Booker on track to clinching Democratic nomination for New Jersey Senate seat

Newark Mayor Cory Booker. PHOTO/File

Newark Mayor Cory Booker is on track to clinching the Democratic nomination for New Jersey’s open Senate seat today, with polls showing him double digits ahead of his competitors.

Booker is facing two long serving congressmen, Representatives Frank Pallone Jr. and Rush D. Holt, as well as the State Assembly speaker, Sheila Y. Oliver.

Booker widely expected to be the winner will face Republican Steven M. Lonegan, a former mayor of Bogota, New Jersey, in October for the special election.

The special election seeks to replace five-term Senator Frank Lautenberg, who died of pneumonia in June at the age of 89.