After saying they were going to retry Mr.
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Menendez is emerging from a monthslong politically damaging corruption trial that ended in a mistrial after a jury was unable to reach a verdict. Menendez said the senator would not comment on Mr. He must be and he will be held accountable by the voters this November.” “I’m embarrassed about how people think about New Jersey based on Senator Menendez’s behavior,” he said. Menendez has not officially announced he would seek a third term, his political advisers have signaled that he intends to run. Hugin said, pledging to bring a sense of affordability and responsibility back to New Jersey, and an era of change in Washington, D.C.īut the new candidate quickly set the tone for what could be an expensive and negative race, pledging that this campaign would be about “contrasts” between himself and Mr. “The state of affairs in New Jersey is not great, in fact, in many ways, is headed in the wrong direction,” Mr. Hugin, 63, was a top executive at New Jersey-based Celgene for nearly 20 years, and has been exploring a bid for the Republican nomination for weeks, announcing his intent in an email on Monday followed by an official kickoff rally here. Bob Hugin, a former pharmaceutical executive, announced he is running for the Republican nomination for Senate here on Tuesday, giving Democratic Senator Robert Menendez a deep-pocketed potential challenger as he seeks re-election after federal corruption charges against him were dropped.
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