Based in Manchester, Colin Booth is Granite Post’s political correspondent. A Granite State native and veteran political professional with a deep background in journalism, he’s worked on campaigns and programs in battleground states across the country, ranging from New Hampshire, Texas, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C.
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He threatened a massacre at his own police station. Now this former NH GOP lawmaker wants his House seat back
Voters have rejected Jon Stone, a former Trump campaign chair, three times since his police records went public. He’s running again anyway as county GOP chair, with an endorsement Kelly Ayotte has never taken back.
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Top NH Republicans are treating Trump’s primetime speech as a liability
New Hampshire’s four Democrats called the address dishonest and dangerous. The Republicans running to replace them, including the candidate Trump endorsed on Monday, had nothing to say at all.
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Trump is sending feds to New Hampshire to act as “election monitors”
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) will send federal election monitors to Manchester and Nashua for New Hampshire’s Sept. 8 primary, part of a six-state deployment that Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the department’s civil rights division, announced this week. The department confirmed the full city-level list—including Manchester and Nashua—to the Daily Caller.…
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Kelly Ayotte’s lead over Warmington shrinks to 5 points as her numbers slide
The incumbent Republican still leads the presumptive Democratic nominee, but her advantage has narrowed since April as her support softens. New Hampshire’s race for governor has tightened heading into the summer, with Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s lead over presumptive Democratic nominee Cinde Warmington shrinking to 5 points in the latest University of New Hampshire Granite…
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Analysis: Pappas condemned Platner in three hours. Sununu has ignored Trump’s sexual abuse for three years.
It took Chris Pappas 3 hours and 28 minutes to say Graham Platner must go. It’s been 3 years, 1 month, and 29 days since a jury found Trump liable for sexual assault—and John Sununu took his endorsement anyway. At 3:23 p.m. on Monday, Politico published an account from a woman who said Maine Democratic…
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Sununu wants to end birthright citizenship—with or without the Supreme Court
Yesterday the Court refused, affirming 6-3 that nearly everyone born on U.S. soil is American—and stranding the NH GOP’s so-called moderate to the right of an increasingly extreme Supreme Court. A week ago, the two leading Republicans running for New Hampshire’s open US Senate seat stood on a debate stage and made clear they wanted…
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Pro-science group backs Warmington for New Hampshire governor
The 314 Action Fund, a national political group dedicated to electing scientists and health care professionals, endorsed Democrat Cinde Warmington for governor of New Hampshire this week, throwing its support behind her second bid for the office. Warmington, a health care attorney and the former lone Democrat on the state’s Executive Council, is running to…
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Trump’s approval hits a new low in NH. That’s a problem for Kelly Ayotte.
President Donald Trump’s popularity in New Hampshire has sunk to its lowest point in nearly a decade, and the timing could hardly be worse for the Republican who endorsed him: Gov. Kelly Ayotte. A new University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll released Monday found just 38% of New Hampshire residents approve of the job…
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New Hampshire housing prices hit another record as GOP lawmakers double down on high prices
New Hampshire Republicans are slamming state Democrats for “rooting for housing prices to drop.” The cost of buying a home in New Hampshire set another record in May, and prominent Republicans are defending the high prices, not fighting them. The statewide median sale price for a single-family home reached $576,000 last month, up 6.7% from…
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Trump ally Lewandowski shook down DHS contractors for kickbacks, Hassan alleges
US Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) is opening a congressional investigation into Corey Lewandowski—the Windham operative who managed Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign—over allegations that he solicited personal payments from government contractors while effectively running the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Hassan, a senior member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, demanded that Lewandowski…
