As New Jersey’s House of Representatives Primary election rapidly approaches, New Jersey’s newest wave of young voters must reflect on how pivotal their participation in the 2018 Midterm Elections will be in the immediate history of both New Jersey and the United States at large.

A battle between Capitol Hill Democrats and Republicans to obtain control of the House and Senate has been brewing for months, but seems to have hit a stride after President Donald J. Trump recently addressed the topic of hypothetical impeachment efforts from House Democrats, should they win a majority.

“We have to keep the House because if we listen to Maxine Waters, she’s going around saying ‘We will impeach him,’” Trump said during a Michigan rally on the night of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

While President Trump’s comments are undoubtedly inflammatory, they are warranted to a degree.

On April 20th, 2018, the Democratic National Convention filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against over 15 defendants, including the Donald Trump Campaign, Trump campaign heads such as Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr, and Paul Manafort, the WikiLeaks organization and its founder, Julian Assange, and the Russian government, as well as hackers and operatives allegedly working under the Russian Federation.

The 66-page indictment accuses the defendants of conspiring to aid the Trump Campaign with monetary funds and compromising information on DNC staffers and donors obtained from stolen DNC emails; in turn, the Trump administration would lift trade tariffs placed in Russia and weaken Western unity against the nation.

Void of concrete evidence and flaccid upon arrival, the lawsuit was further deflated by a report from the House of Representatives Permanent Committee on Intelligence released one week later on April 27th.

The House Report on Russian Active Measures essentially vindicates the Trump administration of any accusations of collusion or conspiracy with the Russian federation.

Upon the House report’s release, House democrats were quick to address the report’s glaring conflicts of interest.

The most notable of these conflicts of interest is the involvement of House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who was a key member of the Trump transition team and was briefly under investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics in April 2017.

However, on May 16- in an unprecedented split from the House Intelligence community – the Senate Intelligence Committee released their own report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, which fundamentally contradicted the stance of the House’s report.

The Senate report claims that a number of the foreign defendants from the DNC lawsuit did conspire to interfere with the 2016 Presidential Election.

In layman’s terms, the Trump administration is at a stall; caught in a constant crossfire between Federal Prosecutors, Federal Intelligence Agencies and Congressional Democrats’ unrelenting demands for continued investigation of a near constant stream of Trump scandals, and House Republicans and a divided Republican majority in the Senate, frantically deflecting Left-Wing efforts.

The 2018 Midterm Elections will serve as the defining moment for President Trump’s first and potentially last term as Commander in Chief. Regardless of support for the President or party affiliation, the youth vote is going to matter this midterm season. That’s why it’s crucial for the fresh wave of voters from Warren Hills to get involved in this year’s election cycle.

This Election is going to clear the dust of the constant partisan infighting and bipartisan impasses that have clogged the Congressional steam engine for the last two years. Many voters living outside of swing states felt justifiably disenfranchised after the 2016 Presidential Election, but the outcome of this year’s Midterms rely entirely on the ballot of each and every voting citizen in each and every state.

Regardless of who you are, your voice and your vote will be heard this November, so get out there and vote.