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American taxpayers have spent more than $1 billion in Afghanistan since the botched withdrawal, yet the Biden administration is refusing to give an accounting of the funds to a government watchdog. The State Department says it will not comply with an investigation request by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, to look at reconstruction expenditures that have totaled $146 billion since 2002, the agency’s report to Congress says. The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Treasury Department “refused to cooperate with SIGAR in any capacity, while the State Department was selective in the information it provided...

Former President Donald Trump tore into defeated New Hampshire GOP candidate Don Bolduc — whom he had endorsed for the Senate — for walking back his claim that the 2020 election was stolen. “Don Bolduc was a very nice guy, but he lost tonight when he disavowed, after his big primary win, his long-standing stance on Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Primary,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social on Tuesday. “Had he stayed strong and true, he would have won, easily,” added the former commander-in-chief, who endorsed Bolduc late last week. “Lesson Learned!!” “General Don Bolduc...

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...

New Hampshire’s Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Don Bolduc, leads his Democratic opponent, incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan, among those undecided on who they are going to vote for, according to a new poll. The poll from Wick Insights shows 48.4 percent of respondents saying they will vote for Bolduc and 48.3 percent saying they will vote for Hassan. When undecided voters were asked to choose between Hassan and Bolduc, 95 percent said they would vote for Bolduc.

Republican Gen. Don Bolduc was physically attacked by an unknown individual before the Wednesday debate with Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Bolduc’s campaign told Breitbart News. Kate Constantini, Bolduc for Senate spokeswoman, told Breitbart News that before the General went on the debate stage, he was physically attacked outside the building by an individual in the crowd. It is not known if the individual is a Hassan supporter. Law enforcement was quickly on the scene and apprehended the individual. “Prior to the debate, an individual in the crowd gathered outside attempted to punch the General and was quickly apprehended and...

RealClearPolitics projected on Tuesday Republican Senate candidate Gen. Don Bolduc will win New Hampshire’s Senate race against Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH). The projection is a clear indication Gen. Bolduc could pull off one of the greatest upsets of the 2022 campaign season, throwing the Democrat Senate majority in doubt. New Hampshire’s senate race is one of about seven highly contested races that will determine which party controls the Senate. RealClearPolitics politics on Monday forecasted that seven Senate races are tossups. Those include New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, Washington State, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. On Tuesday, RealClearPolitics forecasted New Hampshire as a...

Former President Donald Trump endorsed Gen. Don Bolduc on Monday in New Hampshire’s Senate race. “General Don Bolduc has run a great campaign to be the U.S. Senator from the beautiful State of New Hampshire,” Trump’s Truth Social announcement reads. Gen. Bolduc, a Republican, is now tied with Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan, according to the latest polls. RealClearPolitics on Sunday flipped the race to a tossup.

RealClearPolitics on Sunday flipped New Hampshire’s Senate race to a toss-up after Gen. Don Bolduc gained the momentum last week against Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH). On Friday, polling showed Bolduc in a dead heat with Hassan (45-45 percent) with seven percent undecided. Bolduc has gained 11 points since September, while Hassan has slipped about six points. The New Hampshire Senate race joins six additional Senate races that RealClearPolitics estimates as a toss-up. Those include Arizona, Nevada, Washington State, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, though Republicans are looking strong in Wisconsin, Georgia, and Nevada. Overall, Republicans have expanded the map throughout...

Don Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general who is challenging Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan, made the comments while speaking to supporters in North Hampton, according to audio obtained by CNN's KFile from an attendee. The claim, which has occasionally been cited by some Republican politicians, has been repeatedly debunked. "Guess what? We have furries and fuzzies in classrooms," Bolduc told the crowd. "They lick themselves, they're cats. When they don't like something, they hiss -- people walk down the hallway and jump out," he said, as a hissing sound could be heard. "And get this, get this," he continued. "They're...

Decision Desk HQ — Townhall's official election results partner — released its latest projection for the midterm elections just more than one week away and it reflects the momentum for Republican candidates that Townhall has reported in the final weeks of the 2022 cycle. Specifically, for the first time in 2022, DDHQ projects that Republicans will win majority control of the U.S. Senate on November 8th. The margin is narrow (for now) — 51-49 — but that would be enough to send Chuck Schumer and his fellow Dems back into the minority in Congress' upper chamber. 🚨 Republicans are favored...

Just a few days after U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced he would pull his Senate Leadership Fund PAC out of New Hampshire on the 25th, two polls showed the Republican candidate surging into what is now virtually a tied race. According to an Emerson poll released Monday, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gen. Don Bolduc has surged five points since last month and is now down only three points — 45-48 percent — to incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan. Moreover, according to RealClearPolitics, pollsters historically underestimate GOP turnout in New Hampshire by 5.4 points. So if that ends up...

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is jumping back into the New Hampshire Senate race after the GOP’s top Senate super PAC announced that it would bail on the state and Republican nominee Don Bolduc and with polling showing a potentially tightening race. An NRSC official said that the committee would make a new seven-figure investment in TV advertising in New Hampshire as part of a joint effort with Bolduc’s campaign. The new spending is the latest sign that top Republicans still see the race against Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) as winnable, despite earlier concerns about Bolduc’s prospects.

I looked but could not find a Youtube video of the full debate so I snagged it and made one myself. Hope I dont get in trouble. I must say that it is very refreshing to see such a true military hero (General) getting into conservative politics to change the country that he loves for the better. For those that dont know what this mans legacy is...you owe it to yourself to watch this video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM7c_OM4rIc God Bless This Amazing Man!!

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will completely pull all his super PAC’s money out of New Hampshire, effectively sabotaging Republican Senate candidate Gen. Don Bolduc. The McConnell-backed Senate Leadership Fund will pull all its ads off television starting October 25, Shane Goldmacher of the News York Times reported Friday afternoon. The decision will rip $5.6 million away from Gen. Bolduc’s candidacy and greatly help incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH).

After a bruising primary season, the Republican ticket in New Hampshire looks like an arranged marriage between a popular, moderate, governor in Chris Sununu running for reelection and a more right-wing, self-proclaimed outsider vying for US Senate. After calling each other names, the two men are now united for what they see as the greater good – a Republican Senate and a fourth term for Sununu. And it’s not just in New Hampshire. This newfound unity is more common as the general election approaches and the stakes – GOP victory or defeat – become more real. In Arizona, for instance,...

Gabbard said the Democratic Party is controlled by 'fanatical ideologues who hate freedom' ... Tulsi Gabbard will hit the campaign trail with Republican New Hampshire Senate nominee Don Bolduc, after announcing her shocking exit from the Democrat Party because she believes they are "controlled by fanatical ideologues who hate freedom." ... she denounced the "elitist cabal of war-mongers" who make up her former party and divide the country by "racializing every issue and stoking anti-white racism." ... Gabbard made headlines Tuesday after she announced she would be leaving the Democratic Party she once represented in Congress, her reason being that...

The U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire is tightening, according to a poll published Tuesday showing Don Bolduc three points behind Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH). The poll, conducted by the Trafalgar Group from September 26 to September 30, found Hassan at 48.2 percent and Bolduc at 45 percent, while 3.2 percent of respondents were undecided.

New Hampshire Republican Senate nominee General Don Bolduc said Thursday on FNC’s “America’s Newsroom” that after research, he has learned the 2020 presidential election “was not stolen.” So “unfortunately,” Joe Biden is the legitimate president. Co-host Dana Perino said, “One of the things that Maggie Hassan, the Senate incumbent, will say is you are an election denier. You deny that President Biden won the 2020 election. There is this from August 14, when you had a debate. Watch here.”

New Hampshire state Senate President Chuck Morse (R), an establishment favorite, early Wednesday conceded defeat to retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc, who has espoused former President Trump’s false 2020 election claims, in the state’s Republican primary to face incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) in November. The Associated Press has not yet called the race for Bolduc, but he leads Morse by 1 percentage point with more than 80 percent of the vote reported.

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,...