The race is the latest high-level and competitive Republican Senate nomination festival of this election cycle. The winner of the number one on September thirteen will face former Democratic governor and first-time senator Maggie Hassan, whom Republicans are very vulnerable to because of her lackluster poll. Numbers: In November in a midterm election showdown that may determine whether the Republican Party regains a majority in the Senate.
“I look at it very carefully,” Trump added. I literally took phone calls about it. “
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Fredericks, a member of Trump’s broader political circle who co-chaired the former president’s 2016 and 2020 White House campaigns in Virginia, last week approved retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc in the Republican primary for the Senate. According to the most recent public opinion polls in the race (UNH Survey Center this week and Saint Anselm College Survey Center last week), Bolduc has a double-digit lead over small owner and longtime state Senate President Chuck Morse.
The other big competition in the multi-candidate bracket: cryptocurrency entrepreneur Bruce Fenton; businessman, economist and Vikram Mansharamani; and former Londonderry, New Hampshire, city administrator Kevin Smith, recorded in single digits in any of the polls, and a top percentage of respondents were still undecided.
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Trump, who yelled at Bolduc a year ago after the retired general in an interview on “Fox and Friends” was highly critical of President Biden’s withdrawal of U. S. forces from Afghanistan, said in Thursday’s interview that Bolduc had “said some of the wonderful things, a strong guy, difficult. I think he’s also doing very well.
Bolduc, who served 10 rounds in the war in Afghanistan, is making his back-to-back moment for the Republican Senate nomination in New Hampshire. His 2020 bid failed, in part because Trump subsidized Bolduc’s rival. After keeping Trump at bay in his first Senate campaign, Bolduc firmly adhered to the former president’s unproven claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen. “amount of fraud. “
While Bolduc gave a lot of red meat to New Hampshire conservatives, some Republicans in the state and country fear that a number one victory for the retired general, who fought to raise funds, would allow Hassan to be re-elected.
Earlier this week, a newly formed super PAC called White Mountain PAC, which has weak ties to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s longtime political orbit, filed an ad in New Hampshire stimulating Morse, as part of what national ad tracking firm AdImpact reports.
While Trump remained impartial in battle number one, former Trump White House chief strategist and former media executive Steve Bannon heavily promoted Bolduc on his radio show. number one of the presidential campaign, he harshly criticized Bolduc.
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Bolduc’s crusade temporarily issued a press release highlighting Trump’s praise. And his team said that “President Trump’s policies have made us energetically independent and strong . . . Just as President Trump did when he was elected in 2016, Don Bolduc will move on to DC and drain the dreaded swamp. “
Trump said in the interview that he thinks the Senate’s number one is in Bolduc or Morse, noting that “basically, it looks like he’s between the two. “
Morse, in an interview with Fox News on Thursday, said he would welcome Trump’s approval, as well as the outlook of Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, whose approval score among Granite state Republicans is 80 percent according to a University of New Hampshire Polling Center ballot released Thursday. .
“It would be an honor to have any of the mentions,” Morse said. “In fact, I think they’ve done a wonderful job: Governor Sununu in our state and we’d like to see Trump’s policy come back to this country. So I would like to have your two approvals. “
The UNH ballot indicates that among the number one Republican electorate most likely to remain undecided, 41% said a Trump endorsement would make them more likely for that candidate. But 36 percent said it would be less likely for a candidate approved by Trump.
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The former president, more than a year and a part away from the White House, remains the most popular and tough politician in the Republican Party, as he continues to play the role of kingmaker in Republican primaries and mocks a 2024 presidential bid. While suffering a handful of high-profile number one defeats, the vast majority of Trump-backed applicants have won their contests this cycle.
Sununu, who like Trump remained impartial in the primaries, criticized Bolduc.
“He’s not a serious candidate, he’s not, and if he were the Republican nominee, I have no doubt we’d have a lot more problems,” Sununu said of Bolduc in a recent interview on a state morning radio show. type of candidate of the conspiracy theorist type. “
Bolduc claimed last year that Sununu was a “sympathizer of Chinese communism” and that the Sununu family’s company “supports terrorism. “”
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The GOP’s number one in the Senate necessarily froze for a year, as Sununu recruited heavily through national Republicans in hopes of winning an A-list to take on Hassan.
But the governor rattled global politics last November by pronouncing that he would run before launching a campaign for the Senate.