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CONCORD, N.H. – With five days to go until the primary in the key battleground state of New Hampshire, former President Donald Trump remains neutral in the last competitive and high-profile GOP Senate nomination race this cycle.
But on Thursday, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu weighed into the primary, backing one of the front-runners in the showdown — New Hampshire state Senate President Chuck Morse.
“We Republicans here in New Hampshire, we have a very big decision to make, and we have to get it right. We will be nominating New Hampshire’s next United States Senator. And for the sake of this great state, we have to defeat Maggie Hassan in November and the best candidate to do that is Chuck Morse,” Sununu said as he stood next to Morse at a news conference at the governor’s mansion in New Hampshire’s capital city.
Morse is one of the co-front-runners in the crowded field of contenders, but trails retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc by double digits in the two most recent public opinion polls. The other major contenders in the multi-candidate field — cryptocurrency entrepreneur Bruce Fenton; businessman, economist and author Vikram Mansharamani; and former Londonderry, New Hampshire, town manager Kevin Smith — registered in the single digits in the surveys, and a high percentage of respondents were still undecided.
WILL TRUMP ENDORSE IN THE LAST MAJOR GOP SENATE PRIMARY OF THE YEAR?
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire endorses state Senate President Chuck Morse in the state’s Sept. 13 GOP U.S. Senate primary, at an event in Concord, N.H. on Sept. 8, 2022.
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The winner of the Sept. 13 primary will face off in November with former governor and first-term Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in the key general election battleground state in a race that is among a handful across the country that may determine if the GOP wins back the Senate majority. Republicans have heavily targeted Hassan, who…
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