If you want to whine and cry that those folks are the “GOP establishment” go ahead. What not winning county lines does mean is your candidate has failed to get their message to those who matter at this stage of the campaign – county committee members and/or elected officials in those counties, the people who happen to be on the screening committees and voting in the conventions. Blaming the party and calling the frontrunner “RINO” are the arguments of LOSING campaigns. It certainly doesn’t make the winner a RINO. To the others: Enough already! Just because your preferred candidate didn’t win any county lines does not mean the state party is working against your candidate. The exception to the above is Natalie Rivera – she and her supporters have conducted themselves with class and dignity throughout the process thus far. What struck me is that supporters of every other candidate, and at least one candidate himself, have taken to social media screaming RINO, or worse and went so far as to accuse “some very influential people in the State Party” of “putting their hand on the scale…” Senate candidate Rik Mehta won three more county lines (Camden, Burlington and Monmouth) bringing him to 6 – 0. We’re about a third of the way through the convention/screening season and Republican U.S. We’re still a long way from June 2nd and a lot can happen between now and then. Patterson did use the word “apparatchik” in his email, so I’ll give him bonus points for a large vocabulary. I know it’s hard to believe, but I’m not judging. I don’t know if Patterson’s strategy is a good one. Don’t forget, more recently never-Trumper Bob Turkavage won the Cumberland County convention in 2018, I’m not suggesting there was a fix, just that he worked hard and pulled off a win, I think people are still trying to figure out how he did it. In a previous blog post I used the 2008 Murray Sabrin example that even if you believe the deck is stacked against you that with hard work you can still win conventions. The reason I think it is possible that Patterson’s strategy of skipping conventions is a bad idea is that it really is difficult to rig a county convention.
I get it, Patterson is angry and who knows, maybe it’s a good idea for him not to compete in the county conventions and focus on getting on the ballot and run his primary race, but maybe it’s a bad idea. Based on the number of times it was forwarded to me, Patterson made it crystal clear he is not taking part in the process via a campaign email. I’ve been on the road a lot lately and haven’t been able to pay attention to what was going on in the campaign world, but as usual the New Jersey Globe report was right. Moving on to CD2, based on a report by New Jersey Globe it appears CD2 Republican congressional candidate Bob Patterson is still running, but not competing in the screening/convention process. Meissner’s exit leaves frontrunner Rik Mehta, former gubernatorial and congressional candidate Hirsh Singh, former independent Senate candidate Natalie Rivera and the other former independent Senate candidate Tricia Flanagan still in the race. I’m assuming “recent events” are Rik Mehta being 7 – 0 in securing county lines. To win, his message needs to be heard by as many in his state as possible.The US Senate race is down to four candidates after multiple sources reported that Stuart Meissner has dropped out of the race because he says his “narrow path to victory in the Republican primary by seeking the party lines in each of the counties does not afford us a chance to success in such efforts based on recent events.” When policies fail, turn to boogeymen.īob Hugin is intelligent, honorable, and holds the type of common sense conservative ideologies a state like New Jersey needs.
His outbursts read like punchlines with wild claims and accusations of racism around every corner.Īsk him a question about anything the Republicans do from DACA to tax cuts to cutting bureaucracy and he’ll almost always turn the conversation towards white nationalism. Not only is he as far to the left as anyone in the Senate and lucky to not have a federal corruption conviction under his belt, but he’s also one of the most unhinged characters in the upper chamber of Capitol Hill.
Hugin, by contrast, is viewed favorably by 34 percent and unfavorably by 21 percent, but a plurality - 43 percent - aren’t familiar with him. Menendez is viewed favorably by just 30 percent of voters and unfavorably by 54 percent. But 51 percent say the same about the way Hugin profited off his company’s cancer drug. Roughly 59 percent of voters say the corruption charges against Menendez are an “extremely important” or “significant” factor in their vote, according to the poll. Shock poll shows dead heat in Menendez-Hugin Senate race
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