The race was particularly significant because Democrats sought to defend 26 seats, including 10 incumbents running in states that President Donald Trump won in 2016. “At the end of the day it was a hard choice, and when the good outweighs the bad, you just have to go with it,” Bohr said.īohr said she backed Menendez on the expectation that he will be a voice in the Senate to protect health care for Americans and work for immigration reform.
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Arroyo-Maultsby told The Record on Tuesday night that Menendez was “a great man” and repeated her contention from after the trial that he had done nothing wrong.Īnother supporter Samantha Bohr, 26, of Parsippany-Troy Hills, said she backed Menendez despite the trial. One of Menendez’s supporters at his victory party was Evelyn Arroyo-Maultsby, a member of the jury at his 2017 corruption trial who was excused midway through deliberations for a scheduled vacation. “I wasn’t the right messenger to get it delivered, but we opened the door,” he said. In his concession speech Tuesday, Hugin told supporters that he was proud that his campaign created “a new template” for Republicans by reaching out to urban areas in all corners of the state and letting people know “we represent all of New Jersey.”
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He apologized to the public in a TV interview and in the race’s only debate in the weeks before the election. Menendez had always denied wrongdoing, but the Senate Ethics Committee admonished him and concluded that he violated the law. The charges were dropped this year after a mistrial last fall. In seeking to become the first Republican elected to the Senate from New Jersey since 1972, Hugin tapped his deep pockets for more than $30 million and spent on TV ads attacking Menendez over the 2017 trial on charges that he helped a friend with Medicare billing in exchange for lavish gifts.
Polls showed Hugin, 64, a former executive with drug maker Celgene, and Menendez much closer than expected in overwhelmingly Democratic New Jersey. “I’m so proud that New Jerseyans rejected the politics of personal destruction and the false, negative salacious ads,” he added, referring to the Hugin campaign’s television ads linking him to unsubstantiated years-old allegations of liaisons with underage prostitutes that surfaced before his corruption charges.
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