“New Jerseyans have a clear choice in this election: a proven fighter in Bob Menendez who has always stood up for the issues that matter most to them, or Bob Hugin, a Trump-Christie Republican who will never be on our side,” said Menendez for Senate Communications Director Steve Sandberg. Wade, strip health care coverage from millions of Americans, erode protections for patients with pre-existing conditions, and roll back women’s, LGBTQ, worker, voter and civil rights, while Hugin campaigns on his support for Trump’s nominees. The other, entitled “Court” touts Bob Menendez’s opposition to Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda, including appointing a Supreme Court justice who would threaten to overturn Roe v. One ad, entitled “Stopped,” focuses on the Senator’s efforts to protect Social Security and Medicare, while his opponent, greedy drug company CEO Bob Hugin, paid $280 million to settle charges he defrauded Medicare and ripped off cancer patients and taxpayers. New Brunswick, NJ – The Menendez for Senate Campaign today released a pair of new television ads highlighting Bob Menendez’s record fighting for the issues New Jerseyans care about, while his Republican opponent has not. Hugin’s Support of TrumpĪds draw stark contrast between Senator’s record & Hugin
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Surveys have shown the New Jersey race closer than experts expected in a contest deep within Democratic territory.Menendez Campaign Releases Pair of TV Ads Touting Senator’s Fight to Protect Medicare & Social Security vs. Republicans are defending just nine seats, mostly in friendly territory. That includes 10 Democratic incumbents running in states that President Donald Trump won in 2016. Keeping the seat is key for Democrats, who along with two independents allied with them are defending 26 seats Nov. On the 2017 tax overhaul, Menendez said he opposed it, while Hugin said he would not have supported it with the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, a huge issue in high-tax New Jersey. Hugin defended himself saying that “cancer is not cheap,” and patients are alive today because of the drug. Reflecting another principal attack in the campaign so far, Menendez criticized Hugin over his time as Celgene’s top executive, saying the company raised a cancer drug’s prices three times on his watch. Responding, Menendez cut off Hugin who tried to interject. Hugin said he “absolutely” stood by it, saying it’s “a job interview. One of the sharper exchanges came when Hugin was asked if he stood by a recent TV ad that raised old unsubstantiated claims that Menendez patronized underage prostitutes as part of his friendship with the co-defendant in the 2017 trial. I’ve been independent all my life,” Hugin said. “You cannot change in 60 minutes what you have been for 60 years,” he said.Īsked directly whether he considered himself a “Trump Republican,” Hugin responded in the negative. Repeating a line he used in the debate, he referenced Hugin’s age, 64 - the same has Menendez’s.
“What we just saw was an hour of my opponent running away from Donald Trump,” Menendez said just after the debate ended. Menendez sought to tether Trump to Hugin, who raised campaign cash for him and chaired the then-candidate’s finance committee in the state in 2016. Trump looms as an issue in the race particularly because surveys show he’s mostly unpopular in New Jersey, where Democrats have more than 900,000 additional voters than Republicans, and as he frequently dominates the news. Bob Menendez has failed and embarrassed us,” Hugin said. But Hugin, who has tapped his own bank account for $24 million to run ads against Menendez, sharply attacked his opponent at the start.
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