Curtis Bashaw, a hotelier and real estate developer, has joined the ever-growing, high-stakes race for New Jersey’s U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Robert Menendez. Bashaw, 63, announced Monday he will run for the Republican nomination in June’s primary as his party aims to parlay the controversy over Menendez’s bribery charges into their first U.S. Senate victory in the state since 1972. “I’m running for United States Senate because we, as a nation, need to get back to our basic core values of liberty, prosperity, and the pursuit of happiness,” Bashaw said in a statement. “Too man…