Meet Curtis Bashaw the gay, pro-choice Republican running for Senate in NJ

A gay, pro-choice Republican is hoping voters who support Israel will send him to Congress in disgraced Sen.Bob Menendez’ former Senate seat.Should Curtis Bashaw pull off the upset in November against Democratic Rep.

Andy Kim, who has a history of anti-Israel positions and votes, he would become the first Republican since 1982 to hold the New Jersey seat.“We’re going to have people from the Jewish community that aren’t going to vote for Donald Trump, that will vote for Curtis Bashaw because of Andy Kim’s stance on Israel,” Bashaw, 64, said.

In April, Kim, 42, called for an immediate ceasefire that would allow Hamas to remain in power.A month later, Kim voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which would have bolstered protections for Jewish college students.The bill passed the House overwhelmingly but has stalled in the Senate, where Leader Chuck Schumer has refused to hold a vote on it.The hotelier expects to pick up Jewish Democrats in the state who wouldn’t normally back a Republican.“Israel is the front line of a war on terror right now, and we need to make sure we stand with our ally and don’t negotiate with the terrorists there.

Bob Menendez was stronger on Israel than Andy Kim.People are very concerned about [Kim’s] progressive agenda,” he said.

“I actually think there’s a real path to victory,” Bashaw told The Post during an interview this week.“New Jerseyans are craving change.” In April, a Fairleigh Dickinson University survey had Bashaw nine points behind Kim, but by August Bashaw’s own internal surveys found him to be just five points off.Bashaw, a hotel developer whose company restored and owns the historic Congress Hall in Cape May, called his opponent “further to the left than any Democratic Senate candidate we’ve ever had in our state’s history.

“He has only worked for the federal government.He’s a bureaucrat and an academic liberal that wants to tell us what to do, but he has no experience maki...