Posted on 10/16/2018 10:43:38 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A Democratic super PAC with close ties to Senate leaders plans to spend $3 million on last-minute advertising aimed at saving Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who faces an unexpectedly difficult race against a self-funding Republican businessman.
The Senate Majority PAC will spend money on statewide television advertising bashing Bob Hugin (R), the retired pharmaceutical CEO who has spent $15 million on his own campaign.
“Bob Hugin is a Trump sycophant who is funding his campaign off the millions he made raising prices on cancer drugs as a pharma CEO,” said Chris Hayden, a Senate Majority PAC spokesman.
Hayden said the ad would run in the New York and Philadelphia media markets, two of the most expensive markets in the country.
“Bob Hugin is independent and isn't afraid to stand up to anyone, including President Trump, to do what's right for New Jersey,” spokesman Nick Iacovella said in an email.
“Bob launched his campaign vowing not to be influenced by special interests groups or their money. He's not a politician, he didn't come up through the political ranks, and he isn't filling out special interest questionnaires.”
Hugin has vastly outspent Menendez on television. This week, he paid to air a 60-second spot bringing up old allegations that Menendez was involved with prostitutes. Menendez has vehemently denied those allegations.
On its face, New Jersey is a deep blue state. Hillary Clinton beat President Trump there by 14 points in 2016.
But Menendez has seen his already-low approval ratings sink even more after going on trial on corruption charges. The Department of Justice dropped the charges after the trial ended in a hung jury last November.
In a sign of his potential weakness, Menendez won only 62 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary against Lisa McCormick, a virtually unknown activist who beat Menendez in six of New Jersey’s 21 counties.
Polls taken after Labor Day show Menendez leading Hugin, though by relatively small margins. The latest survey, a YouGov poll conducted for CBS News, showed Menendez ahead 49 percent to 39 percent.
Sen. Bob Menendez is not above bribery...another far too obvious, boughten politician who feels above the law.
Her van crashes in the parking garage. Not a good sign.
She will hurt him. DemocRATS want her to stay away.
Well that is not why I oppose him however with the ads that he is in and they are running lots of them here he really says nothing of substance no platform all.
I just think a close up camera shot for the whole ad of your face with cold sores on your lips super visible is not advisable.
Beautiful ad and SO TRUE!!! Please help the Hugin campaign in any way you can. If we can defeat this corrupt and venal little bastard, the Swamp will begin to drain.
It’s all relative. For Jersey, Bob Hugin’s the Conservative we want and need. Get out and vote for Hugin!!! Start draining the corrupt swamp of our domestic enemies.
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