Sharp attacks on Trump from Rupert Murdoch's news outlets
“Democrats succeeded again in making Trump a central campaign issue, and Mr. Trump helped them do it,” the Journal said. It's not like the outlets have never criticized Trump, but the tone and timing were noteworthy. Jesse Watters talked Wednesday of a 2024 presidential election rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden. Trump has all but promised that he would announce a 2024 candidacy as soon as next week. Dov Hikind, a “Fox & Friends” guest, said Trump should announce his support for DeSantis.
wftv.comDemocratic Sen. Hassan holds on in New Hampshire, defeats Republican Bolduc
Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan has won reelection in New Hampshire, surviving a challenge from Republican challenger Don Bolduc. A retired Army general and ally of former President Donald Trump, Bolduc had helped promote the baseless conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen. <<< 2022 New Hampshire Senate Midterm Election: Latest Updates and Results >>>In the primary, Bolduc's candidacy was opposed by a number of key Republicans, including popular Granite State Gov. That same year, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton defeated Trump in New Hampshire by a similarly tight margin. A reliable Democratic vote in the Senate , Hassan had separated herself from Biden at times during the campaign.
wftv.comConfident GOP unifies behind candidates once seen as risky
He cares.”The New Hampshire dynamic reflects the emboldened GOP's increasing confidence in candidates who party leaders believed were essentially unelectable — or at least seriously flawed — just weeks or months ago. Republican Senate contenders from Arizona to Georgia and North Carolina to New Hampshire are grappling with revelations about their personal lives, extreme positions and weak fundraising. The Republican Party is also rallying behind Arizona Senate contender Blake Masters, a so-called election denier viewed as deeply flawed by GOP leaders earlier in the year. The congressman who has struggled to energize Republican voters in his campaign against Democrat Cheri Beasley, a former chief justice on the state Supreme Court. In a brief interview before a Windham town hall on Saturday, Bolduc said he would work to replace McConnell and other Republican leaders if elected.
wftv.comRhetoric vs. record: Senate nominees debate in New Hampshire
The first debate between U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan and Don Bolduc on Tuesday pitted the Democratic incumbent’s record against her Republican rival’s campaign trail rhetoric. Bolduc accused Hassan of failing constituents by supporting the Biden administration’s economic and energy policies, while she used his own words against him to argue he has undermined democracy and endangered women. “Senator Hassan has supported Joe Biden 100% of the time with every failed policy that has resulted in your choice between heating and eating, has diminished your ability to provide three meals a day, has closed small businesses, has hurt people across this Granite State and across America,” Bolduc said.
news.yahoo.comAnother shift for NH GOP Senate candidate on 2020 election
The retired Army general claimed during his primary campaign that the White House race was stolen from former President Donald Trump. Then, after Bolduc won the Sept. 13 vote, he said it wasn't. Trump has called Bolduc a “strong guy, though guy,” but did not formally endorse the candidate in the primary. "I have come to the conclusion, and I want to be definitive about this, that the election was not stolen," Bolduc said. “I’m done when these treasonous people in the White House, in our government,” said Mary Margaret Burke of Hampstead.
wftv.comTop pro-Senate Democrat super PAC spending big bucks to blast GOP challenger in key swing state over abortion
The leading pro-Democrat super PAC is targeting the Republican challenging Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire with a major ad blitz on the combustible issue of abortion
foxnews.comNew Hampshire GOP candidate does 180 after primary, says election wasn’t stolen
New Hampshire Republican Senate nominee Don Bolduc on Thursday said the 2020 presidential election was not stolen, reversing course after claiming during his primary that former President Trump won. During an appearance on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom,” host Dana Perino asked Bolduc if he still stood by a letter he signed with 123 other retired…
news.yahoo.comAbortion ban legislation adds to political challenge for GOP
“National Republicans, from Mike Pence to leaders in the Senate and House, have waited years for the chance to ban abortion nationwide. "I would love a total abortion ban — 15 weeks is not enough," Kirk said. In Indiana, a new Republican-backed abortion ban takes effect Thursday. West Virginia's legislature approved a sweeping abortion ban with few exceptions Tuesday. And in Wisconsin, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, who faces a tough reelection bid, has previously co-sponsored six 20-week national abortion ban proposals.
wftv.comTrump stayed neutral, but MAGA-Republicans, meddling Democrats, win big in New Hampshire's fiery GOP primaries
A trio of MAGA style, outsider and populist Republican candidates edged out more mainstream GOP rivals in key primaries in battleground New Hampshire, even as Trump stayed neutral
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