In an attempt to moderate his positions following the primary victory, Bolduc said in late September that he didn't think the election had been stolen.
In an attempt to moderate his positions following the primary victory, Bolduc said in late September that he didn't think the election had been stolen. The following month he flipped again, telling a town hall he. When pressed at a debate last week, Bolduc referred to the September comment and said he was done talking about it.
Hassan criticized that response and called her opponent"the most extreme nominee for U.S. Senate that New Hampshire has seen in modern history." Bolduc has also said he supported repealing the 17th Amendment, which allows for the direct election of senators, and suggested he was open to abolishing the FBI. In recent weeks hethat schools now have litter boxes for students who identify as cats.
Polls tightened in recent weeks, with some reputable surveys even showing Bolduc with a lead despite Hassan's massive fundraising advantage.spent $1 million in the race's final weeks supporting Bolduc, who devoted that time to arguing that Hassan had helped make inflation worse and had done little to fix problems on the southern border.
Bolduc was also finally embraced by Sununu as the race came to a close. “I’m going to support the Republican ticket, because the issues that folks are voting on are inflation, gas prices,” the governor told NBC News. Hassan is a former governor who was first elected to the Senate in 2016 by an exceedingly narrow margin — about 1,000 votes, or 0.14%. That same year, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton defeated Trump in New Hampshire by a similarly tight margin. But Joe Biden won the state comfortably in 2020, defeating Trump by 7 points., Hassan had separated herself from Biden at times during the campaign.
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