Election 2018: Report from New Jersey

We have a senate race here in the Garden State, with underage hooker lover Democrat Bob Menendez in a serious fight with self-funding GOP Big-Pharma* exec Bob Hugin.

Hotair tells us that Hugin is close. He's run a great campaign, emphasizing his business credentials and his service in the Marines, 'Send a Marine to Washington!' he says. Yes New Jersey is Blue but we elect Republicans (we just had two terms of Chris Christie after all, he beat incumbent John Corzine).

Hugin has been running the most ferocious attack ads we've ever seen from a Republican. Behold:

Just brutal.

Reporting from the ground we can say there's not a lot of Menendez signs around here while the Hugin signs are sprouting up here and there. This is important. We live in NJ-7 which is a contested race, and we see plenty of signs for Democrat Tom Malinowski. We'll get into that in another post.

We can't say that Hugin will win.  But there is no reason to vote for Bob Menendez. None. We think it will be a long election night. It's possible.

*Tons of pharmaceutical companies are based here so it's not really a drawback to work for Big-Pharma.

Aye que Fucked!: Menendez

We'll vouch for this:

Blue wave?

We think the national scene has only a slight impact here.

This has more to do with Menendez being indicted by Barrack Obama's justice department, getting censured by the senate, and having a taste for underage, inexperienced Dominican hookers.

GOP challenger Bob Hugin is a great candidate running a great campaign- that's 2 of 3 on Will's scale.

Send a Marine to Washington.

Will New Jersey send a Marine to Washington?

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez represents the very best of New Jersey. 

A machine politico with nary an original thought,  Menendez was tried on several bribery and corruption charges*, and is known to cavort with underage hookers.

He's a !@#$ and everyone knows it.

The bell may well toll for ol' Bobby Menendez.

The latest poll, in which we participated, has Menendez 43-37 over GOP challenger Bob Hugin.

That is a horrible place for an incumbent to be at this stage in the race.

Hugin is running an excellent campaign, painting himself as a businessman and 'a different kind of Republican'. Hugin also emphasizes his service in the Marines:

He makes a great point about the hideously over-taxed New Jersey:

Hugin may have hit the campaign issue golden trifecta and his effort reminds us of Scott Brown's insurgent campaign in the 2009 MA senate race.

Stay tuned.

*Gee the judge declared a mistrial and the justice department elected to drop the case, fancy that!

There will be no Blue Wave

Much to our surprise the GOP managed to get John Cox on the ballot for governor. He'll be running against walking* dumpster fire Gavin Newsom and his dumpster fire of a city, San Francisco. That race alone ought to draw out enough Republican voters to save a few threatened congressional seats.

Here in New Jersey our own Senator Bob Menendez (Dirt-bag, Dirtbagamala) seriously under-performed in his primary. NJ.com asks:

Lisa McCormick's surprisingly strong showing against U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez in Tuesday's Democratic primary begs the question: What about Bob? 

McCormick, a virtual unknown who did not report spending any money on the race, received the support of almost 4 in 10 Democratic voters.

While Menendez, D-N.J., was never seriously threatened with losing his party's nomination for another Senate term, his performance wasn't a good sign coming on the heels of his Senate Ethics Committee admonishment and a criminal corruption trial that ended in a hung jury before the charges were dropped.

Meanwhile the GOP nominated Bob Hugin for Senate, who strikes us as a good candidate. NJ elects Republicans, and Menendez is in big trouble. They're gonna have to work for this one. Again the GOP here ought to be motivated enough to turn out and save a few vulnerable house seats.

In our own house race, CD-07 our man Goutam Jois got about 12% of the vote. We voted against Leonard Lance for the guy who sounded vaguely Indian, we forget his name.

*Watch your step!