Rick Scott (R-FL), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, argued New Hampshire remains very much within the GOP’s reach and insisted “we have great candidates.” Anselm College found that only 39 percent of New Hampshire voters felt Hassan deserved re-election.
While Hassan has comfortably led her prospective challengers in public polls, her own approval ratings have been far from sterling. It’s not out of the question that GOP fortunes could quickly change. Hassan, who has raised a staggering $26 million in the last two years, is sitting on a $7.3 million warchest. Glaringly, his campaign has under $90,000 in the bank heading into the primary. Top Republicans fear a Bolduc win would all but eliminate their chances to win a state they once viewed as ripe for the flipping. So did the press: a March 2021 headline from the Boston Globe blared that Hassan was “the most vulnerable Senate Democrat up for re-election.”īut more than a year later, that claim has aged about as well as a Bobby Jindal for President bumper sticker.Īfter party leaders failed to recruit the state’s popular GOP governor, Chris Sununu, to challenge Hassan, Republicans watched queasily as a squabbling field of subpar hopefuls failed to catch fire during the primary campaign.Īs Granite State voters head to the polls on Tuesday for this race’s primary, the leading candidates are Don Bolduc, a bombastic retired general who has embraced the MAGA wing of the party, and Chuck Morse, a leader in the New Hampshire state senate who is more aligned with the establishment. Maggie Hassan, the first-term Democratic incumbent, as an easy target who could pave the way to their recapture of the U.S. It wasn’t long ago that New Hampshire-the fiercely independent, perennial political battleground-was shaping up to be one of the brightest spots for the GOP on the 2022 midterm map.
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