NH Dems, Ro Khanna keep up the pressure on GOP’s Project 2025 agenda

Around 75 Democratic candidates and supporters gathered in Nashua on Thursday to emphasize the high stakes of the upcoming election and the need to defend democracy from the Trump-Vance Project 2025 agenda.

State Representative Latha Mangipudi set the tone of the morning, warning of the dangers of a second term for the former president, which she said would be “the last time we’ll have democracy… Project 2025, people, it’s real. It is scary.”

But Rep. Mangipudi said Granite Staters had everything they needed to avoid that outcome, they just needed to do the work.

“The excitement is real. This sounds like 2008 when President Obama ran for the first time and he got the nomination, the whole country was mobilized. We need that energy now. We have that energy, that momentum. Let’s move together.”

The event was headlined by Harris campaign surrogate and the often-called fifth member of New Hampshire’s congressional delegation, Congressman Ro Khanna of California, a regular visitor and booster of down-ballot state Democrats who told the crowd they were part of history by being in a battleground state.

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“We have all the momentum, we have the polls starting to be on our side. But anyone who thinks that this is not going to be the fight of our lives is not taking it seriously…. what an opportunity you have, what a privilege you have, to be one of those battleground states, to be part of making history,” Khanna said.

State Representative Ben Ming, an attorney in Hollis running for State Senate this year, said upholding the structures of democracy was a personal mission for him.

“Democracy is the framework. It’s a scaffolding upon which the rule of law is constructed, and the rule of law is a feature of democracy, which is why I believe so deeply in defending it.”

The enthusiasm was palpable in the crowd for the historic candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris. Speakers praised her and her newly selected running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.