This one is especially painful.
New Jersey may be deep blue overall, but turnout in its traditionally Republican strongholds (exurban New York City and along the Jersey Shore) would’ve likely increased with even one strategically placed Trump rally.
Trump lamented Hugin’s loss to scandal-plagued Senator Bob Menendez, “I feel badly…That’s a race that could have been won.”
Menendez bested the businessman by 9.7 percentage points.