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New Hampshire will close its primary season on Tuesday with a showdown between a Republican moderate and a far-right candidate, analysts say could jeopardize Republicans’ chances of winning back the Senate majority. Republicans are poised to nominate Don Bolduc, a Trumpy candidate who has expressed support for repealing the 17th Amendment, which allows direct election of senators. He has also embraced former President Donald Trump’s claims that the election was stolen. The winner of the Republican primary will face incumbent Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan, whose seat is seen as crucial to the Republican roadmap to regain control of the Senate...

DURHAM, N.H. – With two weeks to go until primary day in New Hampshire, a new public opinion survey indicates that retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc remains the front-runner in the Republican Senate nomination race in the key general election battleground state.The winner of the Sept. 13 contest, which is the last of the competitive and high-profile Republican Senate primaries this election cycle, will face off in November’s midterms with former governor and first-term Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan – and the GOP views her as vulnerable. The contest is one of handful across the nation that could determine if Republicans...

He has said the state’s popular Republican governor is “a Chinese Communist sympathizer,” called for the repeal of the 17th Amendment allowing direct popular election of senators and raised the possibility of abolishing the F.B.I. The man behind these statements is Don Bolduc, a retired Army general who leads the Republican field in what should be a competitive race for the New Hampshire Senate seat held by Senator Maggie Hassan, a Democrat. In one primary after another this year, Republican voters have chosen hard-right candidates who party officials had warned would have trouble winning in November, and Mr. Bolduc could...

Former U.S. Army General Don Bolduc, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, blasted Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) in an interview with Breitbart News and said New Hampshire voters should support him because he is “an outsider who’s not bought and paid for.”***Stopping excessive government spending is a priority to Bolduc, who started the “hell no to spending caucus.”He criticized Hassan for being a part of the establishment that has made life unbearable for most Americans.“Maggie Hassan for the last 40 years in politics as a state senator, a governor, and now five and a half miserable years...

Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their ultra-narrow Senate majority this year in a midterm election cycle that has several of the party’s most vulnerable incumbents facing voters amid rising inflation and surging gas prices. Republicans need to net just one new seat this year to reclaim control of the upper chamber. Still, Democrats are more optimistic about their chances of holding their Senate majority than they are their House majority and are eyeing several opportunities to flip GOP-held seats.