Politics

  • 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…

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  • One of New England’s biggest content creators just came out against data centers in New Hampshire

    Zach Remi has built one of New England’s most-followed social media pages by mining the everyday absurdities of life in New England—and by his own account, he’d just as soon keep politics out of it. The man behind “New England Dad” is a native Granite Stater: he grew up in Kingston, went to Keene State,…

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  • Developer behind Nottingham data center donated to Kelly Ayotte

    The Seacoast businessman whose data center proposal ignited a firestorm in Nottingham last month is a past campaign donor to Gov. Kelly Ayotte, federal campaign finance records show. Thomas Moulton gave $1,000 to Friends of Kelly Ayotte, Ayotte’s US Senate campaign committee, on Oct. 20, 2010, according to a Federal Election Commission filing. The filing…

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  • WATCH: After filing for a second term, Ayotte’s staff shouts down questions on Trump

    WATCH HERE Gov. Kelly Ayotte filed for reelection at the New Hampshire State House on Thursday morning, arriving at 8:30 a.m. to a crowd of hundreds of supporters before submitting the paperwork for a second term. She then took questions from the assembled press — including a friendly opening from NH Journal, the conservative outlet…

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  • Ayotte ghosts RFK Jr. as Trump’s NH poll numbers crater

    As polls show dismal support for Donald Trump in New Hampshire, Kelly Ayotte did nothing to acknowledge the visit of one of the most senior members of his administration Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte was nowhere to be seen during Friday’s visit to the New Hampshire State House by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s controversial…

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  • Lawyer who defended NH GOP election tampering is Ayotte’s pick for top state election board

    It’s the second time Ayotte has elevated a former NH GOP lawyer to a position with power over state legal disputes—and it comes as Trump moves to seize control of state election systems. Gov. Kelly Ayotte has tapped a longtime Republican operative with a documented history of defending election interference to help decide New Hampshire’s…

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  • Sununu, Ayotte silent as Trump creates $1.8 billion ‘slush fund’ for Jan. 6 rioters, allies

    Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s office declined to weigh in on a federal program that may compensate people convicted of attacking Capitol Police—and that quietly bars the IRS from ever auditing the president’s past tax filings.  Top New Hampshire Republicans again find themselves in a familiar role this week, answering for President Donald Trump’s blatant corruption with…

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