“Throughout the primary, I have felt the concerns of the voters, and heard time and again we need to send an outsider to Washington.” “Our campaign overcame the odds and millions of dollars in spending from outside special interest groups because we built a true bottom-up grassroots campaign,” Bolduc tweeted in the wee hours of Wednesday.
That’s consistent with Democratic-aligned organizations backing pro-Trump candidates in key races around the country - a strategy some have criticized, arguing that it could backfire if those candidates go on to win their general elections. Some Democratic groups, meanwhile, sponsored primary ads promoting Bolduc, predicting he’d make an easier opponent for Hassan. Bolduc wasn’t bothered by Sununu’s criticism, calling the governor “a Chinese communist sympathizer.” Hassan is most afraid to face.”īy contrast, Sununu called Bolduc a conspiracy theorist and suggested he would have a tougher time in the general election. Hassan this November and the candidate Sen. In his primary, Bolduc defeated New Hampshire state Senate President Chuck Morse, a mainstream Republican endorsed by Sununu, who called Morse “the candidate to beat Sen. Chris Sununu, a relatively popular moderate who might have posed more of a threat to Hassan, chose instead to run for reelection. Republican primary voters also picked conservative candidates this year in moderate or Democratic-leaning states including Massachusetts, potentially putting competitive races out of the party’s reach.īolduc’s victory likely reignites disappointment among some in the national party that Republican Gov. Biden carried the state by more than 7 percentage points. The results of Tuesday’s primaries mean the general election for Senate in New Hampshire should provide another such test.
But those candidates who used the former president’s support to win GOP nominations now will likely have to prove they can appeal to a broader swath of the electorate in general elections, where larger numbers of voters tend to be more moderate than those who turn out for primaries. The former president and the larger movement of Trumpism, which President Joe Biden and other top Democrats have decried as presenting a major threat to American democracy, didn’t win every major race of the primary cycle. Some defeated Republican incumbents who had been open Trump antagonists. They notched primary wins up and down the ballot from Maryland to Arizona, Florida to Michigan. Primaries in New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Delaware on Tuesday capped the nation’s primary season just eight weeks before Election Day, when majorities in both chambers of Congress, key governorships and scores of important state offices will be up for grabs.ĭozens of candidates around the country who were openly championed by Trump - or at least hewed closely to his brand - helped extend his hold on the national GOP.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday. “Nice! The “Trumpiest” people ALL won in New Hampshire last night. House primaries in New Hampshire - Karoline Leavitt in the 1st Congressional District and Bob Burns in the 2nd Congressional District - leaving some in the party questioning whether they will be able to broaden their appeal beyond the GOP base in November. Two other pro-Trump candidates won their U.S. The former president called him a “strong guy, tough guy.”
Donald Bolduc won New Hampshire’s Senate Republican primary on Wednesday and will face potentially vulnerable Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan in November - setting up another test of whether a fierce conservative can appeal to more moderate general election voters.īolduc wasn’t formally endorsed by former President Donald Trump but has said he believes Trump won the 2020 election and has espoused conspiracy theories about vaccines.
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