New Hampshire U.S. Senate candidate Don Bolduc (R) told the New Yorker he disagreed with Donald Trump’s assertion that he would have won easily had he stayed “strong and true” to election denial.
Said Bolduc: “That’s absolutely wrong. I would have lost by even more!”
He added: “My advice to him was that if you come up to New England to campaign, and you do it on election denial, you won’t get anywhere. It is not an issue you should be talking about. Joe Biden is the President, and that’s it.”
“Let’s live free or die, baby.”
— New Hampshire Senate candidate Don Bolduc (R), in his latest ad.
A new St. Anselm College poll in New Hampshire finds Don Bolduc (R) just ahead of Sen. Maggie Hassan (R), 48% to 47%.
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New Hampshire U.S. Senate nominee Don Bolduc (R) repeated the baseless claims that children are identifying as cats and that schools were accommodating their demands to use litter boxes instead of toilets, American Independent reports.
Said Bolduc: “Identifying as a cat, hissing at other students, meowing during tests, licking themselves like cats do to clean themselves. Very, very disruptive behavior, very unnecessary behavior, and behavior that doesn’t belong in the classroom. And nobody can do anything about it. The teachers can’t do anything about it, everybody’s hands tied and they have to facilitate this type of behavior which detracts from the discipline required in a classroom, the regimentation required in a classroom, and people’s ability to learn. Very, very distracting.”
“The National Republican Senatorial Committee is recommitting resources into the New Hampshire Senate race, just days after the Senate GOP’s top super PAC cancelled its spending on behalf of nominee Don Bolduc,” Axios reports.
An Emerson College poll showed Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) leading Dan Bolduc (R), 48% to 45% — within the margin of error.
A new Emerson College poll in New Hampshire finds Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) just ahead of challenger Don Bolduc (R), 48% to 45%.
A new Insider Advantage poll shows the race essentially tied.
In a sign that New Hampshire is at risk of falling off the map of Senate battleground states, the Senate Leadership Fund, the outside group affiliated with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that it was canceling $5.6 million in television ads that it had reserved in the state for the final two weeks of the race, the New York Times reports.
On a recording obtained by Vanity Fair, New Hampshire Senate candidate Don Bolduc (R), who has claimed he would not vote for a 15-week federal abortion ban, waffled on his position.
He also called the disposal of embryos for in vitro fertilization “a disgusting practice.”
A new AARP poll in New Hampshire finds Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) leading challenger Don Bolduc (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 52% to 45%.
In the governor’s race, Gov. Chris Sununu (R) leads challenger Tom Sherman (D), 55% to 41%.
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who announced this week she was leaving the Democratic party, is headed to New Hampshire to campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Don Bolduc (R), Politico reports.
“Senate Republicans’ campaign arm is pulling millions of dollars in spending from New Hampshire’s race to shore up other candidates across the board, as Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan continues to poll ahead of her challenger,” Politico reports.
“Don Bolduc isn’t making a full about-face, but the Republican nominee for Senate in New Hampshire can’t seem to stop shifting his position about whether the 2020 presidential election was legitimate,” the AP reports.
“The retired Army general claimed during his primary campaign that the White House race was stolen from former President Donald Trump. Then, after Bolduc won the Sept. 13 vote, he said it wasn’t. By Monday, at a town hall in Hudson, he said he doesn’t know what happened.”
Sen. Maggie Hassan’s (D-NH) campaign manager “is warning donors and supporters that it may be in more trouble than polling suggests, disputing the idea GOP challenger Don Bolduc can easily be defeated, according to a copy of an email sent to donors,” Axios reports.
Key takeaway from the memo: “Our own internal polling shows that Don Bolduc is quickly consolidating the Republican base and is rapidly making up ground.”
Playbook: “It’s an example of how some Democrats are wary of overconfidence against flawed GOP competition. It may also represent one campaign’s effort to keep spending from being diverted to other races.”
A new Suffolk University poll in New Hampshire finds Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) leading challenger Don Bolduc (R), 50% to 41%.
Key finding: “New Hampshire voters are anxious about inflation and dissatisfied with President Biden’s leadership, the poll found. But in a year when the US Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion, and worries about the future of American democracy abound, women and independents appear to be breaking strongly for Hassan, whose Republican rival has called himself ‘unapologetically pro-life’ and has questioned the results of the 2020 presidential election. Independent women favored Hassan over Bolduc 65% to 19%.”
New York Times: “All through his primary, Don Bolduc, a far-right Senate candidate in New Hampshire, said the 2020 election was stolen. A day after his victory was called, he reversed course. But eight days after that?”
“He indicated on a podcast that he had not completely turned his back on the stolen-election movement, conveying that he found it unclear why his election-denial message had not been resonating with voters in the battleground state.”
Said Bolduc: “The narrative that the election was stolen, it does not fly up here in New Hampshire for whatever reason.”
“Then he renewed his false claim there had been fraud in the election.”
“She just wants to hang on with dear life. Well, guess what? Your views are not consistent with the average Granite Stater, number one. Number two, get over it. This is about the economy.”
— New Hampshire U.S. Senate candidate Don Bolduc (R), when asked by WMUR about Sen. Maggie Hassan’s (D-NH) focus on abortion rights.
A new Emerson College poll in New Hampshire finds Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) with an 11-point lead over newly-nominated Donald Bolduc (R), leading 51% to 40%.
“Like a driver making a screeching U-turn, Don Bolduc, the Republican Senate nominee in New Hampshire, pivoted on Thursday from his primary race to the general election, saying he had ‘come to the conclusion’ that the 2020 presidential election ‘was not stolen,’ after he had spent more than a year claiming it was,” the New York Times reports.
Said Bolduc: “I’ve done a lot of research on this, and I’ve spent the past couple weeks talking to Granite Staters all over the state from every party, and I have come to the conclusion — and I want to be definitive on this — the election was not stolen.”
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