Senator Bob Menendez Petitioning for Re-Election as an Independent

Posted on by May 25, 2024

US Sen. Bob Menendez is petitioning to run for Senate as an independent candidate, in a last ditch attempt to save his political career.

The embattled New Jersey Democrat is facing federal charges of fraud, extortion, bribery and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt between 2018 and 2022 — while serving as chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Menendez pulled out of the Democratic Party primary and has been personally collecting signatures to get ballot access, according to the New Jersey Globe. He needs to collect 800 valid signatures by June 4.   When he withdrew from the Democratic primary he said he would consider running as an independent if a jury exonerates him.   If he gets the signatures he has until August 16 to withdraw from the race without appearing on the ballot.

By filing, he would preserve the option of attempting to keep his seat – or possibly enhance his bargaining position if a three-way race suddenly puts the New Jersey Senate seat in play in November. His trial is expected to last at least through the end of June.

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Senator Bob Menendez Petitioning for Re-Election as an Independent — 44 Comments

  8. Ignore the AZ bot and his fake news links. Trump was fantastic and sounded just like a libertarian. He needs to be their nominee.

  16. Obviously the AZ bot’s programmer didn’t watch the speech. There was plenty of support from Trump. The fake news media will never report that.

  17. AZ bot inputs do not include watching speeches. Its inputs include fake news. The programmer does not fuss with the inputs constantly – that’s the whole point of the bot.

  18. The troll moron and retard parties have merged and are running dead man Thomas W Jones of Detroit, Michigan for Senator in every state.

  19. There weren’t only Libertarians in attendance, but Republicans too. In fact, the Republicans were privileged with better seating and allowed into the Columbia Ballroom by security ahead of Libertarians. They also didn’t get forcibly dragged out of their chairs, thrown to the ground and kicked around by Trump’s storm troopers for no reason, the way that cross-dressing male-prostitute delegate was.

    So yes, there was support for Trump, especially from the Republicans but also from some Libertarians. But there was also a lot of booing, jeering, taunting and catcalling from many other Libertarians.

    Personally, I think Trump gave a rather weak showing, since he mostly repeated the same talking points Vivek had already made the day before. But he got a strong reception nonetheless, albeit very polarized in whether it was strongly positive or strongly negative.
    RFK and Vivek, by contrast, both gave a much stronger showing, but received a weaker reception that seemed overall more positive and less mixed.

  20. Trump shouldn’t have wasted his time. He appears to be under the impression that the libertarians typically get 3% for president. In reality, that only happened once. 0.3% is much more typical, and is much more likely this time, given the no name candidates seeking their nomination.

    There’s also a tendency to believe that libertarian votes all, or overwhelmingly, come at the expense of Republicans. In fact, when you dig into the data, many L.P. voters would otherwise vote at all, and of the ones who would still vote, almost as many would vote for Democrats as Republicans. The net difference of the Libertarians having a presidential candidate is not 3% or 0.3% bit more like 0.03% in a typical year. That’s 1/100 of the impact on the outcome Trump apparently thought they would have in deciding to accept the invitation, or, as some have reported, asking to be invited.

    Supposing 10% of voters are in swing states, we’re talking about an appeal to 0.003% of voters – 3 voters in 100,000, or maybe 5,000 voters nationwide. And there are better ways of reaching those than speaking at Libertarian Party National conventions.

  23. How many who booed were actual libertarians? Could be Feds, or commies like Sarwark.

  24. Actual libertarians stay the hell away from the Libertarian Party and its conventions 😛

  25. How much per signature is Menendez paying? I’m in Jersey; Exit 116.

  26. It’s illegal to pay voters for signatures, I think in every state. It’s legal to pay signature gatherers to gather other people’s signatures. In some states, it’s legal for signature gatherers who are also voters of those states to be paid for their own signatures if they sign off as both the gatherer and signer, if that’s allowed by state law, or if the gatherer doesn’t have to sign off under the state rules.

    What if they are the only signer they gather? Is that a way around the prohibition on getting paid to sign, at least in some states?

  31. Richard Winger won’t post about Angela being reelected because he hates her.

  32. The Trump nomination was ruled not in order. I’m wondering when they’ll have time to complete all the convention business. It’s looking to me right now like a lot of it will not be done at all.

    3 hours of nomination speeches
    Lunch
    X number of ballots
    VP nomination
    Vice chair election
    Secretary election
    Treasurer election
    At large LNC members election
    Platform debate
    Bylaws debate
    Judicial committee election

    Over/under on how many of these things get done today?

    Time certain they need the room back? Time of presidential banquet? When do they lose quorum?

    Why were presidential and chair debates during business, after a long credentials fight, instead of in the evenings?

    Is it an actual plan to have some of the LNC pick the rest of the LNC and no judicial committee to appeal to!?

  33. Conventions never get all of their scheduled business done in time. It’s deliberately by some members such as Aaron Starr to intentionally waste time with bullshit.

  35. Maybe Sarwark will delay the convention even more by faking another assault.

  40. Pig Farmer is right. Trump is estimating the L.P. impact a hundred fold. This year, especially, if they don’t nominate a candidate, in addition to Trump, Biden, and staying home, a chunk of their voters would go for Kennedy. So, maybe only 2,000 of their voters in all swing states combined would be up for grabs in a best case scenario. Trump should have held a rally around Virginia Beach instead.

    Contrary to my advice, George Wallace failed to achieve campaign goals – throwing the election into the House and playing kingmaker – by campaigning in far flung Yankee states instead of states like Kentucky, West Virginia, Missouri etc as the election drew close. Killary made a similar mistake in 2016, assuming she had it in the bag (thank God she was wrong).

  41. They can vote NOTA. Trump has been deemed ineligible, so voting for him wouldn’t do any good. NOTA is effectively a Trump vote.

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