Posted on 11/08/2022 8:30:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan has been projected to win reelection in New Hampshire, beating out Republican Don Bolduc in what was once seen as a strong pickup opportunity for the GOP.
Hassan’s victory is key for Democrats in their quest to maintain control of the evenly divided Senate.
Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general, was not the preferred choice of establishment Republicans to take on Hassan. Their first pick was GOP Gov. Chris Sununu, but he passed on running. GOP-allied groups spent millions on ads during the primary attacking Bolduc as a weak candidate and boosting state Senate President Chuck Morse.
But Bolduc won the Republican nomination in September anyway — and without the support of former President Donald Trump, a key mark of his appeal with GOP primary voters in the Granite State.
There’s a reason why GOP operatives didn’t consider Bolduc a strong candidate. He holds a variety of extreme beliefs: He wants to eliminate the FBI and the Department of Education, backs Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, and called Sununu a “Chinese Communist sympathizer.”
The GOP candidate sought to moderate some of his positions during the general election campaign, including his false claims about election fraud. Trump dinged him on that, but still endorsed Bolduc late in the race.
“General Don Bolduc has run a great campaign to be the U.S. Senator from the beautiful State of New Hampshire. He was a strong and proud ‘Election Denier,’ a big reason that he won the Nomination, but he then disavowed,” Trump said on his social media platform. “He has since come back, at least on busing, but that is only a small part of N.H. Election Fraud. Nevertheless, Don Bolduc has asked for my Endorsement, and he’s got it, Complete & Total.”
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Live Free?
Guess not tonight.
I would be interested to know if *any* of the candidates who publicly questioned the result 2020 election have won. If not...well, draw your own conclusions.
Based on early results, it seems to be becoming very clear that Americans WANT to continue living under communism...
Yawn...
Another pristine totally honest Cuba-style election under our belts...
The serfs have spoken: “Bow down... Obey... Snitch...”
The 2020 election issue was very big in NH, just from talking to people and listening to chatter.
Big in the sense of “stop talking about the past”.
Tonight is not the night to push the “draw your own conclusions” line. For example, I have been very skeptical about the Governor of Florida here and elsewhere.
Maybe not tonight - but conclusions are going to be drawn. Hassan and Pappas were beatable - just not by the GOP nominees.
Time to shake it off, analyze, and draw the correct conclusions.
Dems flipping many seats in California. RCP is showing Republicans down to just +5 in the House seats gains.
She was a Republican in her commercials at the end of the campaign. Bucked Biden and a bunch of other lies.
Depressing. Need to move.
The pro life issue is suicide politically especially in the social media age. It’s not a good front burner nationally. We were so set up by Scotus. Oyva dummy can’t see that.
The pro life issue is suicide politically especially in the social media age. It’s not a good front burner nationally. We were so set up by Scotus. Only dummy can’t see that. Fixed for typo.
Not exactly society's strongpoint these days. Need a "hot take", a scape goat, and a snarky response... like now. Otherwise, someone else could get the fake internet points for doing it first.
And yes, I guess that also includes me, doing this post, right now.
Not a great night. America, is doubling down on their destruction.
RE: Depressing. Need to move.
Do you live in the “Live Free or Die” State?
Yup.
McConnell sux
Just too many new ‘Covid’ residents moving in from Massachusetts. Democrats are like locusts.
And the correct conclusions are your conclusions, yes?
I’ve been reading your conclusions on this site for the better part of two decades and I don’t recall thinking much of them, I’m afraid.
I live in NH, right between Maine and Vermont, you know, the tristate constitutional carry zone?
It’s very nice here, I would never move.
Consider - when you do not have the benefits of diversity, all this political stuff is much less important.
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