New Hampshire’s recent U.S. Senate elections have had one recurring characteristic: staggering amounts of money raised and spent. That standard was set in 2016, when the contest between then-Gov. Maggie Hassan and then-Sen. Kelly Ayotte set a state record for the total amount of fundraising from all candidates, and in 2022, when Hassan defeated Republican […]

New Hampshire’s primary results Tuesday continued a well-worn narrative in the Granite State: Voters chose familiar, household names over insurgent outsiders to lead their parties.  Those include Stefany Shaheen, the Democratic nominee vying against Republican Anthony DiLorenzo for the 1st Congressional District; John E. Sununu, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate; and Chris Pappas, Sununu’s […]

Scott Thompson, a retired mechanic from Epsom, usually doesn’t vote in midterm elections, but after a GOP candidate for state representative showed up at his door he decided to make plans to vote on Tuesday. “Josh Shapiro Jr. actually came to my house on a 98-degree day to talk to me,” Thompson, 59, said as […]

Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas will face off in November against Republican former Sen. John E. Sununu to be U.S. senator, after the two candidates prevailed in their respective primaries Tuesday. The results, projected by the Associated Press shortly after 8 p.m., solidified what will likely be a bare-knuckled, expensive general election fight for the […]

In 2006, Carol Shea-Porter stunned the New Hampshire Democratic establishment, defeating a well-funded, party-backed opponent, Jim Craig, in the primary and then ousting Republican Jeb Bradley in the 1st Congressional District. And she did it with a progressive platform.  “There was a sense of: We don’t want Washington coming here and telling us what to […]

After U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen announced her retirement early last year, the race for a New Hampshire U.S. Senate seat became wide open. On the Democratic side, U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas and Karishma Manzur are vying for the nomination in Tuesday’s primary elections. Pappas, who has led in the polls throughout the race, represents the […]

In his effort to convince voters to send him to the U.S. Senate, Chris Pappas, who currently represents the eastern half of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives, has begun touting an agenda to keep big money out of politics. “One of the major issues that we’re hearing about everywhere across New Hampshire […]