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Hampton, New Hampton – New Hampshire Senate Speaker Chuck Morse has granted the Republican Senate primary to retired Army General Don Bolduc, who is poised to face Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan in the November midterm elections.
The Associated Press has yet to call the race, but as of 3:31 a.m. ET, Bolduc was leading with 37% of the vote to Morse’s 36% with 85% of the vote. .
Bolduc leads a dense field of candidates and now appears to be heading into a major general election matchup in one of the nation’s few key battleground states likely to determine whether the Republican Party regains control of the House of Representatives. is.
The Republican Party sees Hassan’s poll numbers as lackluster, making him highly vulnerable, and has heavily targeted him.
“It’s been a long night and we didn’t make it to the end,” Morse wrote on social media. “I want to thank the supporters for all the blood, sweat and tears they put into this team’s efforts. Call @GenDonBolduc and wish them all the best.” I’ll have to focus on beating Maggie Hassan this fall.”
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After declaring victory in New Hampshire’s Republican Senate primary, Bolduc said late Tuesday night, “You sent the biggest signal to the establishment tonight. They’re going to work for you.” Told.
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Delaware all held nominating contests on Tuesday, with the 2022 primaries just over and just eight weeks left until the midterm elections for the representatives.
Additionally, New Hampshire has been host to a series of high-profile and competitive Republican Senate primary finals, and in the last six months has played against conservative candidates backed by mainstream Republicans, often with former President Trump. He has pitted far-right candidates against his supporters. A legion of MAGA supporters.
Boldak, who served 10 times in the war in Afghanistan, is running as a populist and an outsider as he ran for the Republican Senate nomination twice in a row in New Hampshire. sided with Boldac’s rival. After distanced himself from Trump in the first Senate election, Bolduc has embraced the former president’s unproven allegations that the 2020 election was “rigged.” Bolduc was among a group of retired generals who signed a letter questioning the legitimacy of the election.
The former president remained unusually neutral in New Hampshire’s Senate primary.
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Bolduc gave New Hampshire conservatives a lot of red meat, but some Republicans in the state and nationally said Hassan was re-elected after a primary win by a retired general struggling badly to raise money. There was concern that it might
Two weeks ago, the newly formed super PAC, named White Mountain PAC, loosely linked to the political trajectory of longtime Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, had Bolduc’s “crazy idea” in New Hampshire. spent approximately $4 million to air television commercials denouncing the
“I’m standing strong, deprived of the arrow by the Republican candidate,” Boldac told supporters at his town hall in Laconia, where he was born and raised, on Saturday. “When God made Boldak, he made an oak tree, not a willow tree. We will not bow to the wind. We will stand firm.”
“The reason they fear me is because they can’t control me…. When asked by Fox News about the gold, he said.
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Bolduc has also been verbally entangled with Republican Governor Chris Snoonu of New Hampshire.
Boldak last year claimed that Sununu was a “Chinese Communist Party sympathizer” and that the Sununu family business “supports terrorism.” Boldak has retracted those attacks on the popular governor but continues to criticize Sununu’s policies during the coronavirus pandemic as “administrative excesses.”
A few weeks ago, Sununu said on a popular statewide talk radio show that Bolduc “isn’t a serious candidate. I have no doubt he will…he’s kind of a conspiracy theorist type of candidate.”
However, Sununu has softened criticism of Bolduc over the past week.
McConnell and other Senate Republican leaders spent a year trying to recruit Sununu to fight Hassan, but the governor announced last November that he would run for re-election instead. On Thursday, he endorsed Morse, who was shown to be second only to Bolduc in polls.
National Democrats once again interfered in the high-profile Republican primary. Morse was targeted on television by his massive seven-figure ad purchase from the Senate Majority PAC. Schumer.
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Key fields in the Republican Senate also included cryptocurrency entrepreneur Bruce Fenton. Businessman, economist and author Vikram Mansharamani. And Kevin Smith, former town manager of Londonderry, New Hampshire, was a former state representative who also served as chairman of the Pease Development Authority.
Hassan, who went unopposed in the Democratic primary, set his sights on the final Republican nominee after voting Tuesday morning.
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“I have a record of Granite State bipartisan results, but my opponents have nothing to do with Granite State and are too extreme for Granite State people,” the senator said from a reporter. answered the question.