What questions do you have about the 2026 elections? What major issues do you want candidates to address? Let us know. In Tuesday’s primary election for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, Dr. Adam Hamawy, a surgeon who served in the U.S. Army and a political newcomer, defeated a dozen other candidates, including an assemblywoman, two mayors, a county commissioner, a fitness instructor and a neuroscience professor, with about 28% of the vote. So how did he do it?