Menendez’s announcement comes days before New Jersey’s Democratic filing deadline on March 25.
Indicted Sen. Bob Menendez will not run for reelection as a Democrat this year but is keeping the door open to an independent run, he said Thursday.
It’s happened before. Menendez faced corruption charges last time he was up for reelection, but a mistrial in 2017 allowed him to maintain support from the state’s party establishment in 2018. “As I’ve said from the beginning, Menendez should have to face the voters and the people of New Jersey should have the opportunity to repudiate him — and the corruption and cronyism of the Democratic Party as a whole — at the ballot box,” she said in a statement.
And Alex Zdan, a former television news reporter, put the race in a broader perspective, saying that “Democrats like Phil and Tammy Murphy protected Menendez until there was an opportunity to advance their own ambition” and that “I will prosecute the corruption of the state Democratic party on the campaign trail and on the debate stage this fall.”
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