One of Menendez’s supporters at his victory party was Evelyn Arroyo-Maultsby, a member of the jury at his 2017 corruption trial who was excused midway through deliberations for a scheduled vacation. “I wasn’t the right messenger to get it delivered, but we opened the door,” he said. In his concession speech, Hugin told supporters that he was proud that his campaign created “a new template” for Republicans by reaching out to urban areas in all corners of the state and letting people know “we represent all of New Jersey.” He apologized to the public in a TV interview and in the race’s only debate in the weeks before the election. Menendez had always denied wrongdoing, but the Senate Ethics Committee admonished him and concluded that he violated the law. The charges were dropped this year after a mistrial. Hugin tapped his deep pockets for more than $30 million and spent on TV ads attacking Menendez over the 2017 trial on charges that he helped a friend with Medicare billing in exchange for lavish gifts. “I’m so proud that New Jerseyans rejected the politics of personal destruction and the false, negative salacious ads,” he added, referring to the Hugin campaign’s television ads linking him to unsubstantiated years-old allegations of liaisons with underage prostitutes that surfaced before his corruption charges.
In front of cheering supporters, Menendez called it “a victory of hope over hate, facts over fiction, inclusion over division, for hard work over ripping people off. Bob Menendez greets supporters after winning a 3rd Senate term:
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