Booker likely headed to Senate after blowout New Jersey primary victory

Newark Mayor Cory Booker easily won the New Jersey Senate Democratic primary on Tuesday night, more than doubling his nearest opponent's share of the vote at the time the race was called. [WATCH VIDEO]
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With just seven percent of precincts reporting, Booker took 57 percent of the vote, to Rep. Frank Pallone's (D-N.J.) 25 percent, Rep. Rush Holt's (D-N.J.) 14 percent and state Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver's 4 percent support.

Republican Steve Lonegan, former mayor of Bogota who twice before ran unsuccessfully for the GOP nomination for governor, won the Republican primary with more than 80 percent of the vote. The Associated Press has called both races.

Booker emerged from a relatively sleepy primary campaign well-poised to defeat Republican nominee and former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, and enters the general election campaign the heavy favorite.

His task, now, will be to stem a steady drip of negative press he's received in recent days over his connections to the tech and business worlds.

But even if Lonegan continues to seize on those reports as evidence Booker is too beholden to outside special interests to serve the people of New Jersey, Republicans are unlikely to be able to counteract the blue lean of the state and Booker's star power and deep campaign coffers.

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