‘Stopping Donald Trump starts’ in N.J., top Democrat says

Ken Martin in New Jersey

Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin speaks outside a home in Basking Ridge on Saturday.Brent Johnson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

The leader of the national Democratic Party stood on a porch in Somerset County on Saturday — seven miles away from the president’s golf club — to hammer home a message.

“Stopping Donald Trump starts right here in New Jersey,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin told a few dozen local party leaders, candidates, volunteers, and voters at a private residence in Basking Ridge — three days before the primary in the massive race for the Garden State’s next governor. ”Make no mistake about it.”

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