JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey is going another round in his attempted political comeback, more than two decades after he resigned from office.

McGreevey will take on James Solomon in a Dec. 2 runoff election in the race for mayor of Jersey City, the state’s second-largest city.

McGreevey and Solomon were the top two vote getters in Tuesday’s nonpartisan election but neither received more than 50% of the vote, forcing a runoff.

They were among seven candidates on the ballot vying to replace Mayor Steven Fulop, who declined to run for a fourth four-year term leading the city of about 300,000 residents.

McGreevey, a Democrat, was born in Jersey City, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, and returned to live there in 2015. He is running for public office

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