Posted on 09/13/2022 5:34:57 AM PDT by cotton1706
New Hampshire will hold the last Senate primary before the 2022 midterm elections on Tuesday, with the contest influencing whether Republicans will control Congress next session.
New Hampshire’s Senate race has captured the most attention, with the GOP vying to defeat Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan, a first-term incumbent who won in 2016 by less than 1,000 votes and is seen as a “vulnerable” incumbent by Republicans. But her likely Republican opponent, Don Bolduc, could prove controversial in the blue state.
The Republican Senate primary in which Bolduc is competing has been described by Politico as damaging to the party. Bolduc, a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General and the current frontrunner, is seen by some Republicans as too populist – á la former President Donald Trump – to win a general election. Bolduc has embraced Trump (who did not make an endorsement in the race) and suggested that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. He also made comments disparaging the COVID-19 vaccine before later getting vaccinated himself. (RELATED: NYT Analyst Pours Cold Water On Democrats’ Midterm Optimism)
New Hampshire’s popular Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has called Bolduc a “conspiracy-theorist type candidate” and endorsed New Hampshire State Senate President Chuck Morse, who currently trails Bolduc by over 20-points (i.e., 22% to Bolduc’s 43%), according to the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Morse has also been supported by White Mountain PAC, which has ties to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and has spent $4.6 million on his campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Nope. NH has all Democrat Senators and Congressmen. Trump lost both times.
It is one of the most secular states and a Pro-life candidate will have a hard time here.
NH has 4
“Don was my Battalion commander on two trips to Afghanistan.”
As a former military guy myself, that’s amazing!
It is always good to see Establishment Republican and Democrat money wasted. The only downside I see that it provides advertising money to legacy media local TV stations, which tend to rehash the party line of New York headquarters.
Sununu is another arrogant dynast working against the will of the people in his own party.
Can't wait for him to be primaried.
Oh right! 2 districts...unlike VT which
only has one. Seeing bits about the races in the 2 different districts in NH but I forgot when I wrote the above that NH does have 2. Thus
a swing of 4 electoral votes
Bush 271 Gore 266
would have become
Gore 270 Bush 267
Thanks for correction
[1 EV from DC abstained]
“Can’t wait for him to be primaried.”
His primary is today. New Hampshire has 2 year governorships.
I spent Labor Day with a bunch of kids in their mid twenties. Now that they are in the real world I think they are slowly coming around.
They started conversations with me about how bad Fauci was and the lock downs. They also complained about inflation, and political correct pronoun usage.
And this is a group of kids who were deep blue a couple of years ago.
I gave them a copy of the RFK Jr. Fauci book that they are now sharing.
That’s encouraging!
That tends to convince many, but not all.
WV actually is what cost Gore the WH...
Solid Blue state for Decades.... Even went to Dukakis in 88 and Carter in 80 (did flip to Reagan in 84, and Nixon in 72, Eisenhower in 56) But for an unincumbent re-election, the state hadn’t gone Republican since 1928!). Democrat war on coal, flipped the state and its been one of the most reliably red states ever since.
I didn't visit the original source, but in the excerpt he appears to be the only NH person mentioned without his first name.
Great tag.
Yes, and the fact is WV was as solid a blue state as you could find... Democrats took it for granted, I don’t think Gore even stopped in the state in 2000... and as such lost...
Much like 2016, they didn’t see it coming.
Their war on coal, and taking the state for granted cost them the White House.
As I said, in an open election WV had not voted R for president since 1928!.. Only exceptions were R presidential re-election that were all landslide blowouts.
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