Why would a state with a democratic majority of voters NOT vote for Menendez?

Voting for Hugin to be a Senator is the same thing as voting for Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell.

And you know that despite Hugin averring that he's a "different kind of Republican" is going to vote the way Mitch McConnell tells him to vote.

And that would mean more tax cuts and sustaining the penalty for living in New Jersey. Specifically, the last round of tax cuts allow only a $10,000 deduction of state and property taxes. Both. (This is how we pay for our great public schools, public roads, hospitals, etc. Average property taxes alone are $15,000. Add state taxes are you're looking at paying taxes on another $10,000 now regarded as income, wages, and profits. Bob Hugin would be voting to sustain that new status quo.

Bob Hugin is not a non-conservative Republican like Nelso Rockefeller or our own Millicent Fenwick. And BTW, Donald Trump solicited him to run for the Senate. It had nothing to do with umbrage on Menendez's "corruption". And Bob Hugin is silent on the obvious corruption in the WH.

I can only hope the polls are inaccurate and that the Midterm elections will bring out thousands of voters who will vote down the line for Democrats including Menendez.