Brian Laird on W.N.C. its primary election season in New Jersey. Early voting is underway.

Primary day itself is next Tuesday. The marquee races are the Democratic and Republican primaries for U.S. Senate

with Democrat Bob Menendez now on trial himself for alleged corruption and not running for re-nomination by his party.

As we cover these primaries on the station,

many of you know we had a three-candidate Democratic primary debate,

moderated by our own Morning edition host, Michael Hill.

And we've invited the two main Republican candidates to appear on this show, either for a debate

or for individual interviews.

One candidate accepted for an interview.

One did not.

That's Christine Serrano Glassner, currently

the mayor of Mendham.

So with me now is Curtis Bashaw, founder and managing partner of Cape Resorts, a collection of

hotels in the Cape May area. Mr. Bashaw, thanks for coming on. Welcome to

WNYC. Thank you, Brian, very much.

Great to be here today.

And listeners, we can't take a few calls or texts with candidate questions for Curtis

Bashaw running in the Republican U.S. Senate primary in New Jersey first priority will be for New Jersey Republicans with questions relevant to the Republican primary, not Democrats who want to challenge him on issues between the party.

And listeners, I'm sure you get it.

The context here is a Republican primary.

We will invite the winners back for a different kind of conversation

between the parties in the fall, so with any questions

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