[Coleus]

Hugin and Bramnick are RINO's and are part of the old, moderate, WASPy Republican party in NJ supported by Kean, Whitless, Frelinghuysen, etc.

Hugin lost because he didn't have a platform and didn't excite the republican or conservative base. Hugin was proud of being pro-abortion and gay marriage and that was it. He never mentioned Trump or Immigration or lowering taxes, cutting regulations or anything else. He was very evasive and stood for nothing. There is only one Republican district left in NJ and that district is occupied by a pro-life RINO.

[goldstategop]

Hugin lost because he ran away from Trump. He got no love from NJ voters.

[max americana]

All Hugin had to do was ask a blessing from the Orange One yet he declined. Pathetic.

[stormhill]

Thanks for all that info. All I recall from the campaign is an ad by Bob Hugin saying he would stand up to Trump.

To be perfectly frank, now I'm really glad he lost.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

New Jersey is too liberal for a Trump-type conservative to win.

I’m from Jersey, I know.

[LeeClementineKenny]

This is bullshit. Republicans were losing power in these states long before Trump was a factor. If they had embraced Trump's MAGA agenda, and held rallies with him, I have hard time seeing them do worse than they did. It may not have won them elections, but I think it would have helped them a lot more than it hurt them.

A lot of the republicans Trump campaigned for didn't even campaign on the MAGA agenda. You can't expect to get democrats that voted for Trump on an issue like trade, when they didn't make it an issue. A lot of them didn't talk about the MAGA agenda in detail because they didn't support it.

[mindburglar]

Hugin couldn’t beat a pedo crook. He’s a loser.

[ZULU]

Totally agree. I know people in solid Republican Morris County who voted for Mikie Sherill because they thought Webber was to conservative or had a personal bias against him. Some party leaders there actually stabbed him in the back and supported Sherill. They went so far as to run a Democrat, Ghee, against Webeer in the primary. The guy registered Republican one week before declaring himself a candidate for Frelinghuysen’s seat. ( Rumor has it Frelinghuysen dud not support Webber either.)

Hugin and Lance, despite their positions,would have been far better for Trump.

Hugin ran on the “Vote for me, I’m not crooked Menendez” ticket and it didn’t work.
Lance actually SAID he was endorsed by Gabby Gifford’s anti gun group in his commercials. He touted himself as the “most bipartisan in Congress.”

And yes, the NJ GOP is dominated at the top by okd money blue blooded Wasp types of the Nelson Rockefeller mold like Bramnick, Whitman, Frrelinghuysen and Kean - leaders who are hopelessly out of touch with the rank and file state Republicans ethnically, socially, economically and politically. Uber rich family dynasties who probably made their fortunes swinDeLong Indians.

And the idiot who took over from sleezy Kyrillos ran an awful ground game over there too.

Further, the crooked Democrats throughout the state were pulling tricks like Broward County everywhere

[Gene Eric]

Grow a pair, Jersey.

Your FRiend from Long Island :)

[jmaroneps37]

Good for you,now you can so sit in your corrupt shit hole and be “split” all you want.