Can Bob Menendez pull a Joe Lieberman and run Independent?

GettyRoad

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New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is going to be primaried in June 2024, and he may leave the Democratic Party and run a campaign like Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman did in 2006, when he was primaried by now-Gov. Ned Lamont because Lieberman was too conservative..........

Can Bob Menendez do the same and run third party in New Jersey, and potentially win with Latino and Black voters?
 

GettyRoad

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How do you consistently come up with such stupid threads? Not unlike you, no one likes Menendez. He isn't a political threat to anyone and he is headed to jail
He has strong Latino support in NJ, Camden, Essex, Hudson and Union could give him another 6-year term.
 

woolfe9998

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I don't think Menendez has indicated he's running for anything. If he did, he'd lose in the primary. Because it's a lot harder to run in a democrat party primary while indicted than it is in a republican party primary. If he was a republican, he would just say he was being persecuted by a political conspiracy, and his base voters would believe him. However, I don't think dems are as apt to buy that from indicted dem candidates. Sorry.
 
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Perknose

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Of course Bob Menendez is running . . . from the feds!
 

HomerJS

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I live in NJ, yes. I know he will play the race card, because a lot of Latinos love him.
Why are you so interested in adding more corruption to Congress? Wouldn’t less corruption be better? It would be like me wishing the return of George Santos. Are you doing it because he is a Dem?

Did I just answer my own question?
 
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nakedfrog

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I haven't been this distraught since I found out a bunch of NYC police would have quit if Al Sharpton had been elected 26 years ago!
 
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HomerJS

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Republicans despirately want Dems to embrace him, so they can support their "both sides" narrative.
The "both sides" defense is used by them often when they get caught doing something heinous. Unfortunately, I hear this by MSM so they will not be considered biased.
 

IronWing

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The OP really, really wants race to be a wedge issue for Democrats. If he can just find the perfect racial divide, the party will split like well cured firewood. The trouble he is having is that he thinks like a Republican geezer. What he thinks is subtle, isn't.
 
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