Christie pal Joe Kyrillos is within striking distance of Menendez:

Kyrillos is running for the U.S. Senate against Senator Bob Menendez, the Garden State’s junior senator and the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. As a Republican in a deep-blue state, Kyrillos faces many challenges. Menendez is better financed, he’s better known, and he will benefit from the Obama campaign, which was able to sweep New Jersey four years ago.
But Kyrillos, an even-tempered fellow, is confident that he can defeat Menendez and give New Jersey its first elected Republican senator since Clifford Case left office in 1979. The latest polls hint at Menendez’s soft statewide support. “I know I’m the underdog and I have a lot of work to do,” Kyrillos says as he reads the diner’s large, laminated menu. “But I’m running against a very weak incumbent.”
A Fairleigh Dickinson poll released in May shows Menendez leading Kyrillos by nine points, 42 percent to 33 percent — hardly a position of strength for an established senator. In the same poll, Menendez loses by seven points, 37 percent to 30 percent, against “someone else.” Kyrillos, for his part, is unknown by 68 percent of voters. Once they get to know him, he predicts, he will rise.
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Over on the home page, Kyrillos chats with NRO at the New Monmouth Diner.