MILLTOWN - With time ticking down until June 2nd, East Brunswick Mayor Brad Cohen stays focused on the crisis, namely Donald Trump's shredding of America's constitutional democracy.

Throw in lack of healthcare access and the failure of Congress to take the reins of a Trump-insane-spiraling Washington government, and you get the picture of how Cohen motivates a crowd of young people outside an ice cream stand as they prepare to stampede the doors of this lowkey blue collar Middlesex burgh.

Middlesex.

It's one of the biggest counties in New Jersey and they do not have a congressperson who resides in the county.

It's a point not lost on Cohen.

Milltown in a way represents a chunk of what this local mayor - operating with the Middlesex County Democratic Committee behind him - looks to corral in a complex, chopped-up CD-12 Democratic Primary.

It's a world struggling to exist, otherwise, arguably, known as New Jersey: pizza parlor, comic bookstore, monument to the veterans of foreign wars, vinyl records spinning in the shadow of Route 1 box stores, pocket parks with the remnants of a ruined mill in the background, bagels and donuts, craggily majestic town hall, and a funeral parlor with a name on the shingle out front well-known in these political parts.

Cohen quarterbacks the team in a parking lot amid ice cream. Decent crowd. "BRAD Cohen for Congress" signs prominently affixed. The candidate materializes at the front of the huddle.

Listen to what he has to say HERE: