CONWAY — The New Hampshire primary election offered up a couple of surprises on the Republican ballot, especially for federal office.
Karoline Leavitt, 25, who served as a press assistant in former President Donald Trump’s White House, had trailed Matt Mowers, 33, a former senior White House adviser in the same administration and the Republican Party nominee for the 1st Congressional District seat in 2020, in the polls all summer long, but in the voting booth on Tuesday, the Plaistow resident running for office for the first time won big.
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