Posted on 03/12/2025 9:32:23 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the senior Democratic senator from New Hampshire, has announced she will not run for reelection in 2026, creating an open-seat race in a battleground state former Vice President Kamala Harris narrowly carried in November.
Shaheen announced what she described as a “difficult” decision in an interview with The New York Times.
“It was a difficult decision, made more difficult by the current environment in the country — by President Trump and what he’s doing right now,” Shaheen, who is 78, told the Times.
Shaheen highlighted what she saw as Trump’s focus on dishing out retribution to his political opponents, looming cuts to the federal budget and Trump’s antagonistic stance toward Ukraine as personal concerns.
She is the third Senate Democrat to announce their retirement this year, setting up a tough election map for Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) next year.
Sens. Gary Peters (Mich.) and Tina Smith (Minn.) have also said they don’t plan to run for reelection in 2026.
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She’s quitting because her party is out of power and the big money folks aren’t kissing democrat butt anymore. IMHO
2026 could be a very good year for the Senate. Weighted heavily already against democrats.
Scott Brown is running for the NH Senate seat in 26.
Or maybe he could hold the seat for a couple of terms until Karoline Leavitt is ready.
I don’t begrudge wealth to people in general, but when they are Democrat (and some Republican) politicians, my default stance is that their wealth is tainted.
That probably is not fair, but it is how I feel.
Voted to approve Garcetti's nomination to be ambassador to India even after multiple reports in the LA Times about a staffer who perved on both men and women and Garcetti did nothing about it.
Voted with every other Democrat to block the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act from moving on to a final vote on passage.
Scott Brown is running for the NH Senate seat in 26.
Do you have a source for this info. The Green Pages is not listing him as running.
It does list two Republicans
Former state Senator Chuck Morse • FEC S2NH00249
Tejasinha Sivalingam • FEC S6NH00133
Tejasinha Sivalingam Ran for Senate in 2022. He got 820 votes in the REpublcian primary.
Sununu was good on economic issues, sucked on Judeo-Christian moral issues.
Hopefully, voter ID will be strictly enforced there in 2026.
Brown has not officially declared yet. He said in a recent TV interview that he would most likely run in 26.
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