Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

UpdatedAug 24, 2026, 7:02 PM UTC
To election day71 days
Simulations200,000

New Jersey 4th District

Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running

Democrat
Rachel Peace
0.3%
Republican
Chris Smith
99.7%
ForecastSafe R
Projected margin
R+33.3
80% range
R+47.2 to R+19.4
Partisan lean
R+28.6
Uncertainty multiplier
1.80×

The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.

How the estimate is built
Fundamentals 100.0%
Polling average
no polls
Fundamentals
R+32.6
Blended
R+32.6
Similar-race shift
+0.7
Polling

No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.

Fundamentals
Partisan lean
R+28.6
Elasticity
1.10
Incumbency
−3.4
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
−3.8
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
R+33.3

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