NH-SEN 2022 Megathread: General Dysfunction

[ElectionsGuy]

https://twitter.com/jeremykauffman/status/1488164958810562567

lol, not like I'd expect the people on this forum to be honest and not smear anybody they don't like as a "Trump supporter" "Republican" or whatever, but you'd think they'd at least have some evidence.

And yeah, "fascism" has been totally devalued as a buzzword

https://twitter.com/deAdder/status/1487069788769865731

[free my dawg]

lol, not like I'd expect the people on this forum to be honest and not smear anybody they don't like as a "Trump supporter" "Republican" or whatever, but you'd think they'd at least have some evidence.

My bad. I must have gotten my Mises people mixed up. Their Gov nominee, Borysenko, is the MAGA person.

Kaufman is the racist pedo.

Truly, truly amazing that the only non-Republican in the race literally wants to repeal the age of consent. We live in an absolute society.

[JMT]

https://twitter.com/politics1com/status/1511687588360433668?s=21&t=BnYnHjdlc...

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

https://twitter.com/politics1com/status/1511687588360433668?s=21&t=BnYnHjdlc...

Why are there so many Republican carpetbaggers always running in NH?

[Sir Mohamed]

https://twitter.com/politics1com/status/1511687588360433668?s=21&t=BnYnHjdlc...

Why are there so many Republican carpetbaggers always running in NH?

Seems like it's the only state of the Atlantic Northeast and New England GOP candidates can win in federal elections.

That said, James Buckley who was elected senator in NY 1970 on the conservative ticket in a 3-way race against a Dem and a Rockefeller GOPer and later lost in '76, carpetbagged to CT in 1980, but lost that one, too.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

https://twitter.com/politics1com/status/1511687588360433668?s=21&t=BnYnHjdlc...

Why are there so many Republican carpetbaggers always running in NH?

Seems like it's the only state of the Atlantic Northeast and New England GOP candidates can win in federal elections.

That said, James Buckley who was elected senator in NY 1970 on the conservative ticket in a 3-way race against a Dem and a Rockefeller GOPer and later lost in '76, carpetbagged to CT in 1980, but lost that one, too.

At least with the person the article mentioned, she seems to have grown up in NH, she actually carpetbagged from there to NY to run for Senate (which seems stupid tbh). She's just "uncarpetbagging" now (not that her runs in NY won't be used against her).
I'm surprised Lewandowski hasn't been able to find a better candidate. There wasn't even ONE pro-Trump female in NH state legislature willing to run for Senate?

[Minnesota Mike]

Don Bolduc raised just over $100,000 last quarter. That is just terrible. If you are one of the leading candidates in a supposedly swing senate seat you should raise more than that by accident.

https://www.wmur.com/article/don-bolduc-first-quarter-fundraising-2022/39662133#

[Ferguson97]

https://twitter.com/USA_Polling/status/1513570086111653895

Yeah, Hassan should be fine.

[Lambsbread]

Very very okay with trading Sununu's re-election for Hassan's.

[MT Treasurer]

Get ready for four more years of "If Sununu runs for Senate in 2026, Shaheen will lose before Peters" takes even if Hassan survives a R wave while Cortez Masto, Kelly, and Warnock all lose.

[Sub Jero]

Get ready for four more years of "If Sununu runs for Senate in 2026, Shaheen will lose before Peters" takes even if Hassan survives a R wave while Cortez Masto, Kelly, and Warnock all lose.

Well, if Trump wins in 2024, Peters and Shaheen are safe bets to win.

If Biden wins again, Peters has almost no chance, while Shaheen would be favored but beatable.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Get ready for four more years of "If Sununu runs for Senate in 2026, Shaheen will lose before Peters" takes even if Hassan survives a R wave while Cortez Masto, Kelly, and Warnock all lose.

Shaheen is much stronger than Hassan Sununu could of ran against her and chose not to do it in 2020, Shaheen will hold that seat as long as she wanted she was leading SUNUNU

[Brother Jonathan]

https://twitter.com/USA_Polling/status/1513570086111653895

Yeah, Hassan should be fine.

Still odd to me that Phillips Andover (not even Phillips Exeter from what I can tell), a prep school, has decided to get into polling. I've generally seen this poll treated with skepticism as well, for what it is worth. Seems like it has very few undecideds relative to other polls/what is usually expected this far out in an NH race. The poll also showed that Covid was still the largest issue for voters (45%) with climate change second (21.6%), which I can't imagine being right. Seems like a weird sample maybe. I'll personally wait until St. Paul's puts out its poll until I make a final judgment.

[Sub Jero]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Maggie_Hassan/status/1514403363529666561?cxt=HHwWgsC9...

[NewYorkExpress]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Maggie_Hassan/status/1514403363529666561?cxt=HHwWgsC9...

DSCC needs to cut Hassan off for that.

[free my dawg]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Maggie_Hassan/status/1514403363529666561?cxt=HHwWgsC9...

DSCC needs to cut Hassan off for that.

lol, lmao

[Brother Jonathan]

https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/statehouse_dome/state-house-dome-gop-senate-field-likely-to-grow-and-shake-up-race/article_df7fb4b2-e802-5e45-931a-160a2187c008.html?block_id=998119

Per the Union Leader, Wendy Long, a former NY Senate candidate, is getting ready to run in NH. She is a Dartmouth grad who grew up in NH and worked for Senator Gordon Humphrey. Still, this is ridiculous. If she wins the primary that's three carpetbaggers in a row (not counting Ayotte). My initial reaction though is that she might have a bit of a hill to climb as I doubt she has very high name recognition, not to mention nothing by way of existing support or brand within the state (a note as well that outside of this Union Leader mention, I see nothing in other NH news about this). She basically has all of Scott Brown's liabilities without any of the strengths he may have had. Her only strength would be outside connections, including a possible Trump endorsement, which the article seems to suggest Lewandowski might try to get for her. Needless to say, she would be an awful candidate against Hassan.

[Sub Jero]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Maggie_Hassan/status/1514403363529666561?cxt=HHwWgsC9...

DSCC needs to cut Hassan off for that.

Why?

[Sir Mohamed]

Get ready for four more years of "If Sununu runs for Senate in 2026, Shaheen will lose before Peters" takes even if Hassan survives a R wave while Cortez Masto, Kelly, and Warnock all lose.

I wouldn't take anyone suggesting Sununu as a senate candidate serious anymore. If the dude really wanted to be a senator, he would have run this year. A Dem midterm, semi-popular incumbent and his own popularity very high. Doesn't get much better than that. He just seems to have no desire for the job; some politicians just prefer being executives for a reason (my governor is similar I think; Newsom wouldn't like being a senator either). So there's zero reason to believe Sununu would ever run for senate.

If anything, he'll run 4 prez in 2024 (with very little success).

[Ferguson97]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Maggie_Hassan/status/1514403363529666561?cxt=HHwWgsC9...

DSCC needs to cut Hassan off for that.

DSCC needs to cut off their strongest vulnerable incumbent because she said she’d prefer the state she represents remain the first primary?

[Minnesota Mike]

DSCC needs to cut Hassan off for that.

This may be the dumbest take I have seen on Atlas and that is saying something.

[Senator Incitatus]

https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/statehouse_dome/state-house-dome-gop-senate-field-likely-to-grow-and-shake-up-race/article_df7fb4b2-e802-5e45-931a-160a2187c008.html?block_id=998119

Per the Union Leader, Wendy Long, a former NY Senate candidate, is getting ready to run in NH. She is a Dartmouth grad who grew up in NH and worked for Senator Gordon Humphrey. Still, this is ridiculous. If she wins the primary that's three carpetbaggers in a row (not counting Ayotte). My initial reaction though is that she might have a bit of a hill to climb as I doubt she has very high name recognition, not to mention nothing by way of existing support or brand within the state (a note as well that outside of this Union Leader mention, I see nothing in other NH news about this). She basically has all of Scott Brown's liabilities without any of the strengths he may have had. Her only strength would be outside connections, including a possible Trump endorsement, which the article seems to suggest Lewandowski might try to get for her. Needless to say, she would be an awful candidate against Hassan.

Carpetbaggers from the high-tax states in the rest of the Northeast are the Republican base in NH (and to a lesser extent VT). Nothing strange here nor a death sentence. Long’s candidacy could be interesting given how low the bar currently is.

[Brother Jonathan]

https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/statehouse_dome/state-house-dome-gop-senate-field-likely-to-grow-and-shake-up-race/article_df7fb4b2-e802-5e45-931a-160a2187c008.html?block_id=998119

Per the Union Leader, Wendy Long, a former NY Senate candidate, is getting ready to run in NH. She is a Dartmouth grad who grew up in NH and worked for Senator Gordon Humphrey. Still, this is ridiculous. If she wins the primary that's three carpetbaggers in a row (not counting Ayotte). My initial reaction though is that she might have a bit of a hill to climb as I doubt she has very high name recognition, not to mention nothing by way of existing support or brand within the state (a note as well that outside of this Union Leader mention, I see nothing in other NH news about this). She basically has all of Scott Brown's liabilities without any of the strengths he may have had. Her only strength would be outside connections, including a possible Trump endorsement, which the article seems to suggest Lewandowski might try to get for her. Needless to say, she would be an awful candidate against Hassan.

Carpetbaggers from the high-tax states in the rest of the Northeast are the Republican base in NH (and to a lesser extent VT). Nothing strange here nor a death sentence. Long’s candidacy could be interesting given how low the bar currently is.

I suppose I wouldn't mind so much if the carpetbaggers could win elections but they don't seem to be able to. I will grant you that the "carpetbagger" stuff from the Dems is annoying and often hypocritical, but judging from 2014 it can work, and Long is an even more distant figure for NH voters than Brown was. Morse is fine, Smith is fine, and both are better suited to New Hampshire than Long is (they've lived here for more than a few years, for a start). I suppose Long could win, but I still think Morse and Smith (provided they are well funded, and I think Morse at least could be) are by far better candidates.

[GALeftist]

If we wanted to read every NRSC tweet about Hassan we'd just follow them on Twitter

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

GOP needs to stop Bolduc but he has a ton of endorsements. I don't see how they stop him