Democratic Rep. Andy Kim and Republican businessman Curtis Bashaw are running to succeed disgraced Robert Menendez.
Democrat Andy Kim faces Republican Curtis Bashaw are running for New Jersey's open U.S. Senate seat on Nov. 5.The last time you may have checked in on New Jersey’s race for U.S. Senate, the state’s political universe was exploding.— after being backed by powerful party leaders, including her husband, the governor. The drama got even more epic when Kim wonIt was an opera out on the Turnpike, as Mr. Springsteen might say. Political theater of the highest order.
Bashaw — pronounced “Baa-shaw” — was 13 at the time and remembers riding on the ship with his grandfather. Today, Bashaw lives with his husband and business parter, Will Riccio, a restauranteur and chocolatier, in Cape May. Bashaw is the founder and managing partner of Cape Resorts,A graduate of Faith Christian High School in Collingswood, Bashaw later got a degree from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania — Trump’s alma mater., Bashaw has zeroed in on how he’s a businessman who runs a company with a budget and 1,000 employees.
He promises that, if elected, he would “stand up” to his party on issues he disagrees with. He said he doesn’t “think one person can upend our democracy on fiat” and that “name-calling didn’t start with Trump,” though he has “taken it to an unacceptable level.”, the congressman noted Trump appointed three justices to a U.S. Supreme Court that took “the most extremist turns” and he’s “worried about Mr.
A few months later, Tammy Murphy jumped in and the political machine churned out its support. For as long as anyone can remember, candidates who aren‘t favored by the Democratic party bosses usually don’t win. But Kim stayed in and was backed by, saying she didn’t want to wage “a very divisive and negative campaign” against a fellow Democrat in a critical election year.
Kim dismisses any drama, saying he isn’t seeking endorsements because he’s “building this up from the people. We’re not running a conventional campaign.” Charles Hall Jr., president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Local 108, chimed in: “He’s a good man.”Conventional wisdom is that Democrats might be wounded by Menendez’s fall, giving voters a reason to turn the Senate seat red. Ross Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers University, notes New Jersey’s politics have been “overdue for a cleaning.”“If Andy Kim weren’t the anti-Menendez, I don’t know who would be,” he said.
“I believe it will come back to the federal government, and I would be an advocate for a common-sense bill to protect a woman’s right to choose,” Bashaw said.Bashaw has made immigration a key part of his platform, saying the U.S. needs to close its southern border, though he does not believe in mass deportation and says Congress needs to have “a compassionate conversation about a path to citizenship.
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