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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NH GOP dismantled Sununu Youth center oversight. Now they’re fighting a federal probe
Rep. Maggie Goodlander is asking the US Department of Justice to investigate the Sununu Youth Services Center after two watchdogs documented new abuse. The Republican officials dismissing her request have overseen the facility through decades of scandal, weakened its independent oversight, and produced state reviews that survivors and advocates say cleared the state of responsibility.
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‘Insane’: Pappas rips Trump move that could raise drug costs for 174,000 in NH
The Trump administration killed the subsidy holding down Medicare drug plan premiums. Pappas is fighting to restore it, and says likely Senate rival John Sununu stands with Big Pharma.
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Trump’s tariffs, Ayotte inaction squeeze a beloved New Hampshire farm
Touring Bohanan Farm on Friday, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cinde Warmington heard what Trump’s tariffs are costing a fifth-generation Hopkinton dairy operation and pitched a state gas tax suspension for immediate relief at the pump.
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UNH poll: Trump’s slide in New Hampshire deepens. Ayotte and Sununu are running in his shadow
New Granite State Poll data puts the president at 37% approval, with the sharpest fresh erosion on his handling of the economy. President Donald Trump’s job approval in New Hampshire fell to 37% according to Granite State Poll data released Wednesday by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, with 62% of residents disapproving. His…
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She called for armed conflict with Iran for 10 years. Now it’s here, raising prices, and Kelly Ayotte is silent.
While in the US Senate, Kelly Ayotte (R) tried to kill Obama’s diplomacy with Iran, branded his deal a capitulation, and demanded armed confrontation for years. Now that war—which Trump twice promised would end in “total victory” within two weeks—is grinding into its fifth month and hardening into the kind of forever war Trump once…
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Democrats demand Sununu ‘come clean’ on ‘egregious lie’ over Epstein ties
Former Congresswoman Annie Kuster and two other prominent New Hampshire Democrats called on John Sununu to “come clean” about any ties to Jeffrey Epstein, days after The Washington Post reported the Republican Senate candidate’s campaign admitted his on-camera denial of ever visiting Doha, Qatar was false. Kuster told reporters Sununu “was telling an egregious lie”…
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Report: Ayotte took $13,500 from donors named in Epstein files
Federal Election Commission records tie the money to Ayotte’s years in the Senate; one donor, billionaire Leon Black, faces a subpoenaed House deposition in September.
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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.…
