Politics
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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.…
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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…
