A new poll from <a href="https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2020/01/Crosstabs-2020-01-WBUR-NH-D-Primary-Politics-1-1.pdf">WBUR</a> conducted between January 17 and 21 on “426 likely Democratic primary voters” in the state of New Hampshire shows 2020 Demicratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) absolutely crushing the rest of the field.
The survey asked participants: “If the 2020 Democratic primary for President were held today, for whom would you vote?”
28% of respondents chose Sanders. In a distant second place is Mayor Pete Buttigieg with 15%. In third and fourth place are former Vice President Joe Biden with 13% and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with 12%.
Rounding out the top five is “don’t know/refused” with 10%.
As seems to be the case in many polls, the younger respondents heavily favored Sanders. Among the 18-44 group, Sanders received 37% support, while the only other candidates to make double digits were Buttigieg and Warren, each with 16%.
Older respondents are less likely to favor Sanders. Among the 45+ group, Sanders still leads, but with only 23% support. In second place is Biden with 18%. In third and fourth place are Buttigieg and Warren with 14% and 9%, respectively.
Income appears to be a determining factor in New Hampshire as well. The less people make, the more they support Sanders.
Among those making less than $50,000 annually, Sanders pulls in 40% support, while the only other double digit candidate, Biden, pulls in 14%. Among those making $50,000 &#8211; $99,000 annually, 30% support Sanders, 14% support Biden, and 11% support Warren.
Lastly, among those making $100,000 or more annually, Sanders’ support drops to 19%. In this category, first place goes to Buttigieg with 27% support. Warren and Biden have 13% and 12%, respectively, among those voters.
Lastly, with “leaners” included, the results are a little bit different percentage-wise, but the rankings remain the same.
Sanders still comes out on top with 29% support. Buttigieg comes in second place with 17%. Biden and Warren come in with 14% and 13%, respectively.
As of publication, Sen. Bernie Sanders sits atop the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics average</a> of polls for New Hampshire with 22.1% support to second place Biden’s 17% support.
In Iowa, Sanders has 23.3% support to second place Biden’s 22.3% support. Buttigieg sits in third place in both states, and Warren in fourth.
Despite his strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders falls to second place in Biden country, otherwise known as South Carolina, with the former vice president commanding a strong 32% support to second place Sanders’ 15%, and third place Warren’s 14% support. However, the polling for this state isn’t as fresh as the polling for Iowa and New Hampshire, and thus possibly less reflective of current voter sentiment.
Biden is also up in Nevada (although, like for South Carolina, the polls aren’t as fresh), leading Sanders by 5.7%.
Nationally, Biden also holds the lead with 29.1% support. Sanders has lifted to second place with 22.7% support, while Warren has tumbled to third place with 14.4% support, according to RealClearPolitics.
Interestingly, on a national polling level, billionaire late-entrant Michael Bloomberg is in a relatively strong fourth place with 7.8% support, edging out Mayor Buttigieg who has fallen to 7%.

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POLL: Sanders Crushing In New Hampshire; 13% Ahead Of Second Place

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The country apparently came within a hair’s breadth of having former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in the U.S. Senate, according to Corey Lewandowski.
On Tuesday morning, the political operative-turned-CNN-commentator announced on Twitter that he would not run for Senate in New Hampshire, but if he had, he “would have won.”
“After much consideration I have decided to forgo a campaign for the US Senate. While taking on a career politician from the Washington swamp is a tall order, I am certain I would have won. My priorities remain my family and ensuring that <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">@realDonaldTrump</a> is re-elected POTUS,” Lewandowski said.
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(1/3) After much consideration I have decided to forgo a campaign for the US Senate. While taking on a career politician from the Washington swamp is a tall order, I am certain I would have won. My priorities remain my family and ensuring that <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> is re-elected POTUS
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“I am truly humbled by the outpouring of support I have received from people across New Hampshire and the country. NH needs a US Senator who will put our citizens first and not illegal aliens; one who will support pro-growth policies to keep the Trump economy strong,” he continued. “One who will support strict constitutionalist judges; and one who will fight for our values, not those of Washington, DC. Accordingly, I will be making an endorsement in the Republican Primary for US Senate in the near future to ensure we defeat Jeanne Shaheen in 2020.”
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(3/3) One who will support strict constitutionalist judges; and one who will fight for our values, not those of Washington, DC. Accordingly, I will be making an endorsement in the Republican Primary for US Senate in the near future to ensure we defeat Jeanne Shaheen in 2020.
— Corey R. Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) <a href="https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_/status/1212041544125038593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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A poll from Emerson College released on September 11 found Lewandowski was leading the GOP primary candidates in the state, with a 14-point lead over retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc. The same poll also found that Lewandowski trailed incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) by 10 points – 49% to 39% &#8211; Roll Call <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/campaigns/lewandowski-leads-new-hampshire-gop-senate-primary-field-poll-finds">reported</a>.
Lewandowski had been teasing a senate run for months, saying over the summer that he was “very seriously” considering it, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/corey-lewandowski-says-he-wont-seek-senate-seat-from-nh/2019/12/31/b87ac170-2be7-11ea-bcb3-ac6482c4a92f_story.html">reported</a> The Washington Post. President Donald Trump appeared to support his former campaign manager, calling him “a fantastic guy” who “would be a great senator.”
The Post reported that New Hampshire’s Republican Party had misgivings about a potential Lewandowski bid, saying the Party worried that such a campaign “would complicate the reelection prospects of the state’s incumbent GOP governor and put the New Hampshire Senate race — a lower-tier pickup opportunity for Republicans — out of realistic reach.”
Lewandowski was fired as Trump’s campaign manager in 2016 after Paul Manafort became campaign chairman. Lewandowski still supports Trump and the president stills seems to support his former campaign manager.
New Hampshire Democratic Party spokesman Josh Marcus-Blank released a statement following Lewandowski’s announcement, saying the rest of the Republicans running for Shaheen’s seat would “tear each other down in the contentious primary Lewandowski has left behind.”
“Senator Shaheen will continue working across the aisle for New Hampshire, leading efforts to lower prescription drug costs and making sure veterans and their families get the benefits they deserve,” he added, as reported by the Post.
New Hampshire is being eyed by Republicans as a potential senate pickup in 2020, though the prospects are slim. Shaheen won re-election in 2014 with 51% of the vote against former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R), who moved to the Granite State to try and get back to the senate after losing his seat to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

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Former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro stated on Sunday that both Iowa and New Hampshire should give up their famed status as the first states in the nation to hold a caucus and a primary due to their lack of diverse constituents.
&#8220;I actually do believe that we need to change the order of the states because I don&#8217;t believe that we&#8217;re the same country we were in 1972 — that is when Iowa first held its caucus first,&#8221; Castro said while speaking to NBC News. &#8220;And by the time we have the next presidential election in 2024, it will have been more than 50 years since 1972. Our country has changed a lot in those 50 years. The Democratic Party has changed a lot.&#8221;
&#8220;What I really appreciate about Iowans and the folks in New Hampshire is that they take this process very seriously. They vet the candidates, they show up at town halls, they give people a good hearing,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;At the same time, demographically, it&#8217;s not reflective of the United States as a whole, certainly not reflective of the Democratic Party, and I believe that other states should have their chance.&#8221;
&#8220;So, yes, of course we need to find other states,&#8221; Castro added. &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t mean that Iowa and New Hampshire still can&#8217;t play an important role, but I don&#8217;t believe that forever we should be married to Iowa and New Hampshire going first, and that&#8217;s just the truth of the way that I see it.&#8221;
Castro&#8217;s remarks come after his Democratic presidential challenger Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was asked the same question only days earlier while attending an Environmental Justice forum in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Warren notably dodged the question, rather contending that she is just &#8220;a player in the game.&#8221;
While the former Obama official has been polling below 1% on average among Democratic primary voters in both <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ia/iowa_democratic_presidential_caucus-6731.html">Iowa</a> and <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/nh/new_hampshire_democratic_presidential_primary-6276.html">New Hampshire</a>, Warren is leading the crowded primary field in both states. As of publication, the Massachusetts lawmaker sits at more than 21% support and 19% support on average in Iowa and New Hampshire, respectively.
Last week Castro&#8217;s campaign revealed that it had fired its entire staff in both New Hampshire and South Carolina as it seeks to focus on opportunities in Iowa and Nevada. The news came after the campaign gave supporters an ultimatum to raise $0.8 million in donations by the end of October or else risk the end of his White House bid.
Castro ultimately surpassed the goal and generated nearly $1 million by the deadline. The campaign said the fundraising haul will provide the presidential hopeful with the necessary resources to &#8220;sustain the campaign and make a push for the November and December Democratic debates.&#8221;
Thus far, only ten candidates in the presidential primary field have qualified for the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s (DNC) next debate — Castro has not yet met the required threshold.
&#8220;I can imagine he&#8217;s frustrated,&#8221; said New Hampshire Democratic Chair Ray Buckley. &#8220;But blaming his campaign&#8217;s challenges on the voters of Iowa and New Hampshire is a bit much.&#8221;

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has reportedly laid off all of her New Hampshire field organizers and is closing all three field offices in the state as her presidential campaign has been struggling to gain traction.
&#8220;Senator Harris and this team set out with one goal – to win the nomination and defeat [President] Donald Trump in 2020,&#8221; said Nate Evans, Harris&#8217; communications director in the Granite State. &#8220;To do so, the campaign has made a strategic decision to realign resources and go all-in on Iowa, resulting in office closures and staff realignments and reductions in New Hampshire. The campaign will continue to have a staff presence in New Hampshire but the focus is and will continue to be on Iowa.&#8221;
Accordingly, the campaign revealed that the existing field offices in Keene, Manchester, and Portsmouth would all be closing, laying off more than 20 staffers. However, a campaign spokesperson told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-2020-harris-cuts-entire-new-hampshire-field-team/">CBS News</a> that &#8220;a handful of staffers will run a scaled-down campaign out of the Manchester headquarters.&#8221;
&#8220;We had to lay people off. Yes, we did. We had to lay people off,&#8221; the Democratic presidential hopeful confirmed while campaigning in Iowa on Friday. &#8220;I am very sad about that. It was a very tough decision that we had to make, but frankly a necessary decision. I am all-in in Iowa, and I intend to win.&#8221;
The moves comes as Harris&#8217; campaign has not only been struggling to gain momentum, but has been noticeably slipping in the polls. After months of stagnant fundraising and steadily declining poll numbers, the senator slid from the frontrunner in her home state of California to not even placing in the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ca/california_democratic_primary-6879.html">top three</a> in the state.
A poll of likely primary voters commissioned by the <a href="https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-september-2019/">Public Policy Institute of California</a> (PPIC) in October found that former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are leading the rest of the primary field by a wide margin in the Golden State. Around the same time, Emerson released <a href="https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/california-2020-biden-sanders-warren-in-statistical-tie-in-democratic-primary-harris-struggles-in-home-state" rel="noopener">a separate poll</a> that showed Harris in fifth place, slipping even farther behind entrepreneur Andrew Yang and receiving only 6% of the vote.
Harris&#8217; campaign, which has been described recently as hemorrhaging cash, has been dramatically restructuring its staff nationwide, including both layoffs as well as redeployments, according to a memo obtained by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/kamala-harris-campaign-layoffs-061112">Politico</a> on Wednesday. The campaign has also been renegotiating contracts with consultants in an attempt to bring down additional expenses and her campaign manager Juan Rodriguez is also expected to have his salary cut.
While Harris&#8217; campaign pivots to focus on winning Iowa, the California senator has slipped into sixth place in the latest poll coming out of the Hawkeye state. Harris is tied with Yang at 3% according to a poll of likely voters conducted by <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primaries/democratic/iowa/">Siena College/New York Times</a> in late October.
As of publication, Harris sits at just under 5% support among Democratic primary voters nationwide, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> national polling average. She has not hit double digits in the polls since August 2019.

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Former Republican New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu criticized Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Monday for promoting policies that are so far to the left that they resemble those of socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro.
“It sounds like Bernie Sanders is having his policies and statements written by the Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro,” Sununu told Fox News host Sandra Smith when asked about the presidential candidate’s new proposal to cancel $81 billion of medical debt. “I mean, this is socialism to the extreme.”
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“I think it indicates that Bernie has decided that it is down to a two-person race with Elizabeth Warren and what he has to do in order to win is to out-pander her,” he continued. “And so you’re going to see a continuing series of all of these.”
Accordingly, the Vermont senator previewed an upcoming plan that would wipe away individuals’ past-due medical bills without impacting their credit scores. The $81 billion price tag is exclusive of his Medicare-for-All plan — a keystone of his presidential campaign — which estimates indicate could cost as much as $40 trillion.
In June, Sanders unveiled a separate proposal to eliminate the student loan debt of every American — approximately 45 million people. That sweeping plan would cost upwards of $1.5 trillion.
“But the other thing that comes out of this statement — and Republicans ought to take advantage of it — is that Bernie Sanders is doing an extremely good job of telling us what a disaster Obamacare is and that Obamacare really has to be replaced,” Sununu said.
The New Hampshire governor also noted that as Sanders and fellow progressive challenger Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) battle for the far-left lane of the current Democratic presidential primary, both candidates will likely try to outdo each other on the “everything for everybody” front.
“[Health insurance] is becoming a big test and they’re all pounding Obamacare and in ways that Republicans weren’t as effective as these Democrats seem to be,” Sununu said. “The only one defending Obamacare — and it’s beginning to slip even there — is [former Vice President] Joe Biden.”
Biden, who is largely running on former President Barack Obama’s legacy, is one of the only leading Democratic contenders not to advocate for a Medicare-for-All system that would overhaul the entire health insurance market. Rather, he has vowed to reinstate Obamacare&#8217;s individual mandate to attempt to ensure all Americans obtain sufficient health insurance.
The mandate was initially part of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, more commonly referred to as Obamacare. As a way to bypass the unconstitutional requirement to force Americans to purchase insurance, the individual mandate was upheld in 2012 by the U.S. Supreme Court as an income-based tax levy.
The individual mandate was repealed after President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017.
“For everyone but Biden this has become an effort to be attractive to the millennials who have absolutely no idea what things cost and who have absolutely no idea that eventually — as Margaret Thatcher said — in socialism, you begin to run out of other people’s money,” Sununu added.

WATCH: New Hampshire Governor: Bernie Sanders Policies Sound Like They’re Written By Nicolas Maduro

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On Thursday night, after his rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, at the Southern New Hampshire University Arena, President Trump delightedly tweeted, “Tonight, we broke the all-time attendance record previously held by Elton John at #SNHUArena in Manchester, New Hampshire!”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Great news! Tonight, we broke the all-time attendance record previously held by Elton John at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SNHUArena?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SNHUArena</a> in Manchester, New Hampshire! <a href="https://t.co/GHvFBkA2KZ">https://t.co/GHvFBkA2KZ</a>
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Trump was mocked by many people on social media:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">No one would let it be perceived that he could see nothing, for that would have shown that he was not fit for his office, or was very stupid. No clothes of the Emperor&#8217;s had ever had such a success as these. “But he has nothing on!” a little child cried out at last.
— Lesley Abravanel (@lesleyabravanel) <a href="https://twitter.com/lesleyabravanel/status/1162319723444486144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Sounds like the sun is going down on you.
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But according to Manchester Deputy Fire Marshal Mitchell Cady, who supervised the counting of the crowd, Trump was correct. Cady told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7365155/Fire-marshal-says-Donald-Trump-DID-smash-Elton-Johns-attendance-record-New-Hampshire-arena.html">The Daily Mail</a> that the attendance was “just over 11,500.” He added that “the arena staff said Elton John was around 11,300” in April 2004. Cady pointed out that according to his office, at least 8,000 people stood outside the arena watching Trump&#8217;s rally on jumbo TV screens. He said, “We weren&#8217;t counting it but we estimated probably in the area of 8,000 to 9,000 out front.” On Friday, Cady said he and two deputies examined the physical boundaries of the outdoor crowd on Thursday night, adding, “We measured out the space this morning. Based on the calculations we use for crowd load, we came to either 8 or 9 [thousand].”
Cady said he may have underestimated the number of people in the arena, asserting, “Had some more snuck in during the period when we’re trying to assess the situation and get the door closed, when we’re trying to get everyone through the mags (walk-through metal detectors), then maybe it’s 11,500-plus.”
One arena official added that although there were empty “nosebleed seats,” there were “people cramming themselves into the standing-room space on the arena floor … The Trump people wanted the fire marshal to let more people in, and at some point they say no. But there were tons and tons more outside. It’s not like they couldn&#8217;t fill the place.&#8217;
The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140529101017/http://www.verizonwirelessarena.com/arena_info/default.asp">seating capacity</a> for the Southern New Hampshire University Arena is 11,770 for concerts.
Ironically, on Wednesday, columnist Gail Collins wrote in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/opinion/trump.html">The New York Times</a> of a &#8220;good way to torture Donald Trump,” suggesting, “If we want to really make him crazy, we ought to start a rumor that he can’t draw a crowd.” She added, “Trump can’t bear suggestions that he’s not a crowd megamagnet. Every time he gets on a stage, he seems compelled to claim the audience is of epic proportions. The place is packed! Not to mention the masses waiting outside!”
Speaking of Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Collins concluded:
<blockquote>What if the headlines read “Disappointing Crowd for a Presidential Visit” and the stories focused on the fact that earlier this year in nearby Pittsburgh, Trevor Noah drew a healthy turnout at an arena that seats 12,500? Not responsible journalism. But maybe it’d shock him into reality. Or at least leave him curled up in bed, sucking his thumb while somebody else ran the government.</blockquote>

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Trump Mocked For Claim He Broke Elton John’s Attendance Record. Fire Marshal: Trump Was Right.

A brigadier-general who served 36 years with the U.S. Army and received two awards for valor, five Bronze Star medals, and two Purple Hearts is <a href="https://www.donbolduc.com">running as the GOP candidate</a> to replace New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
Brigadier-General Don Bolduc, a lifelong Republican, led one of the first groups in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in Southern Afghanistan. His record includes serving as Commander, Combined Joint Special Operations Component Commander in Afghanistan, as Deputy Director for US Africa Command (USAFRICOM) and as Special Operations Command-Africa (COMSOCAFRICA).
Bolduc has relentlessly advocated on behalf of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress (PTS). While admitting he had fought against PTS himself, his efforts on behalf of others earned him the nicknames &#8220;Captain America&#8221; and &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s General&#8221; by his fellow officers and soldiers.
On Monday, announcing his candidacy, Bolduc stated:
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During my time of service, I have been in three-quarters of the countries in the world, which included 10 tours of duty in Afghanistan. But regardless of which continent I was on, I never forgot my roots in the Granite State, because no matter where I was, when foreign or tribal leaders would ask where I was from, I would tell them that I&#8217;m from New Hampshire. Now, these folks couldn&#8217;t point out New Hampshire on a map &#8211; but they always responded: &#8220;Live Free or Die.&#8221; &#8230;
In response to encouragement, and after some long conversations with my family I now plan to do what I have been taught and trained to do my whole life: to try and make a positive difference in the lives of the people I love, the state I love, and the country I love. So with your help, that is exactly what I intend to do. &#8230; Today, I am announcing my candidacy to represent New Hampshire in the United States Senate. &#8230; Let me tell you something &#8211; after 36 years in the Army &#8211; I don&#8217;t give a damn about politics, I&#8217;m trained to finish the mission and get the job done.
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In late April, <a href="https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-primary-source-retired-brig-gen-donald-bolduc-being-recruited-to-run-for-us-senate/27262791">WMUR reported</a> that Bolduc was being recruited to run against Shaheen but was reluctant, saying, &#8220;My answer is that it&#8217;s very flattering and thank you very much. But at this point I&#8217;m happy with pushing and pursuing veterans&#8217; issues and teaching at Southern New Hampshire University, where I teach homeland security.&#8221; Of his fight to help veterans with PTSD, Bolduc stated, &#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to raise everyone&#8217;s understanding of what post-traumatic stress is, how it affects service members and their families, and I use myself as an example of living proof as someone who has dealt with it and what therapy can do and has done in making me a better version of myself.&#8221;
Bolduc added, &#8220;Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and as president, we want him to be successful. We have to work together to make that happen.&#8221;
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I&#8217;ve always put people over politics and service over self. Check out my story <a href="https://t.co/3j83Vgli3k">pic.twitter.com/3j83Vgli3k</a>
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Retired U.S. General Announces U.S. Senate Run As A Republican In This State

On Thursday morning, the New Hampshire Senate voted to override Gov. Chris Sununu&#8217;s veto of a bill to repeal the death penalty.
New Hampshire has not carried out an execution since 1939, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hampshire-repeals-death-penalty-63372855">ABC News</a>.&#8203;
The Senate vote crossed beyond party lines to achieve the exact two-thirds majority needed. The final tally was 16-8. Twelve Democrats and four Republicans reportedly supported the bill, while two Democrats and six Republicans opposed the bill. 
Last week, the 400-member New Hampshire House had a slim <a href="https://www.nhpr.org/post/nh-house-votes-override-sununu-veto-death-penalty-repeal#stream/0">two-thirds majority</a> needed to override the veto by 247-123.&#8203;
According to ABC News, capital punishment in New Hampshire only applies in specific scenarios: &#8220;The killing of an on-duty law enforcement officer or judge, murder for hire, murder during a rape, certain drug offenses, or home invasion and murder by someone already serving a life sentence without parole.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://twitter.com/GovChrisSununu/status/1134110641806086144">statement</a>, Sununu said he was disappointed. &#8220;I have consistently stood with law enforcement, families of crime victims, and advocates for justice in opposing a repeal of the death penalty because it is the right thing to do,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I am incredibly disappointed that the Senate chose to override my veto.&#8221;
The only inmate on death row in New Hampshire, Michael Addison, killed Manchester police officer Michael Briggs. The new law does not apply to him retroactively. Some legal experts and supporters of the death penalty, including State Sen. Sharon Carson, believe that the repeal will be interpreted differently by the courts to prevent the execution of Addison. 
&#8220;If you think you&#8217;re passing this today and Mr. Addison is still going to remain on death row, you are confused,&#8221; Carson said, according to ABC news. &#8220;Mr. Addison&#8217;s sentence will be converted to life in prison.&#8221;
Carson also added that New Hampshire takes special care to ensure inmates on death row are not innocent. 
&#8220;This is not Louisiana of the 1920s, where Old Sparky was put on a flatbed truck and driven from prison to prison and people were executed. We are not those people,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t happen here in New Hampshire.&#8221;
The widow of Officer Briggs, Laura Briggs, <a href="https://www.wmur.com/article/laura-briggs-testifies-against-repeal-of-death-penalty/26952237">testified</a> in favor of the death penalty in March claiming that &#8220;it&#8217;s not about an eye for an eye, or revenge,&#8221; but &#8220;it&#8217;s about protecting our society from evil people that do evil things.&#8221;
In a statement, Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty applauded the repeal. 
&#8220;Ending New Hampshire&#8217;s death penalty would not have been possible without significant Republican support,&#8221; the organization&#8217;s director, Hannah Cox, said. &#8220;Increasing numbers of GOP state lawmakers believe capital punishment does not align with their conservative values of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and valuing life. The state of New Hampshire will be much better off because of it.&#8221; 
Sen. Ruth Ward <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5jNleOhhy8">spoke in favor</a> of the bill in April, despite her father being murdered when she was a child.
&#8220;I am a victim. My father was killed before I was eight,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I never saw him. He never saw us grow up. My mother forgave whoever it was, and I will vote in favor of this bill.&#8221;
The ACLU praised the repeal on <a href="https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1134124645928591362">Twitter</a> asserting: &#8220;New England is now the first full region to reject this racist, error-prone, expensive punishment.&#8221;
Maine outlawed the death penalty in 1887, Vermont in 1972, both Massachusetts and Rhode Island in 1984, and most recently Connecticut in 2012.
The repeal makes New Hampshire the 21st state to outlaw the death penalty. 
In recent years, there were numerous efforts to outlaw the death penalty, including 2000 and 2018, where the state legislature passed bills which were vetoed by governors, reported The <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/05/30/new-hampshire-becomes-state-abolish-death-penalty/b9IlqUV6JSOaaRdWLZhSRM/story.html">Boston Globe</a>.

Death Penalty Outlawed In New Hampshire After Senate Overrides Governor’s Veto

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Last week, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47389/she-was-fired-giving-free-lunch-student-no-money-ashe-schow">reported</a> that a cafeteria worker at a New Hampshire high school was fired after giving a 17-year-old student with no money a free meal.
The cafeteria worker, Bonnie Kimball, was offered her job back after the school district received a backlash when news of her firing made headlines. Kimball refused to take her job back, saying she wanted nothing to do with the district&#8217;s politics.
Now the school district is rescinding its offer to Kimball, after the mother of the boy who received the free lunch accused the former cafeteria worker of trying to cover up the deed.
The New Hampshire Union Leader <a href="https://www.unionleader.com/news/education/fired-lunch-lady-accused-of-cover-up/article_e3e1f8df-34e3-5d7d-b727-61743635f1cf.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark">reported</a> that the mother claims Kimball sent her son Facebook messages trying to cover up the giveaway and said her son did not even need the free meal.
&#8220;I feel like this whole thing has just gotten out of control,&#8221; the mother told the Leader. Neither the boy nor his mother have been named.
The mother added that her son was not needy.
&#8220;I have three children, and they are all well-cared for and well-fed,&#8221; she said. &#8220;[Kimball] did not get fired for feeding a hungry child.&#8221;
The incident occurred at Mascoma Valley Regional High School. The district&#8217;s superintendent, Amanda Isabelle, issued a statement saying Kimball was no longer being offered her job back.
&#8220;[I]n light of information recently brought forward by a parent, the school district is rescinding its demand that the employee be rehired,&#8221; read the statement.
Further, Isabelle said the district would now investigate the mother&#8217;s claims.
&#8220;We have been overwhelmed by a crush of national and international media interest in this incident, but I do not believe we have yet seen a full and complete retelling of the facts,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Therefore, we will compile a thorough report on this investigation, and we will make the findings of the independent investigator public. The public, especially our 1,200 families and the thousands of citizens of the communities we serve, deserve nothing less.&#8221;
Kimball&#8217;s employer, Café Services, now claims the former cafeteria worker had been giving the student free food for months, and the food she gave him for free on March 28 was not part of any free-lunch program. Café Services President Brian Stone posted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZ24dCYMQA&amp;t=2s">a video</a> on YouTube where he gave a statement about Kimball.
&#8220;In this situation, the student was not charged for any part of the meal &#8211; the main lunch or four additional items,&#8221; Stone said. &#8220;The employee told the manager that she charged the student&#8217;s account for the lunch but the manager later confirmed there were no charges on the account. So, what the employee said was not true.&#8221;
&#8220;Despite the fact that the student goes through the line frequently, according to the employee, this student hadn&#8217;t been charged for anything for the previous three months,&#8221; he added.
Now that Kimball has been fired, Stone said, the student pays for his meals regularly.
Kimball described the student as a popular &#8220;jock,&#8221; to the Union Leader on Monday, and said she would sometimes charge his food to other student&#8217;s accounts, such as his friend&#8217;s or girlfriend&#8217;s.

TWIST: Fired Cafeteria Worker Now Being Investigated For Allegedly Trying To Cover Up Fact She Didn’t Charge A Student For Lunch

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In March, Bonnie Kimball gave a New Hampshire high school student a free meal after learning he had no money to pay that day. She was soon fired for this, she says.
Several days after she was fired, on April 9, the former Café Services employee received a letter from Fresh Picks Café, a division of her employer, which confirmed she had been fired for not charging the student.
&#8220;On March 28, a District Manager was on-site and witnessed a student coming through the line with multiple food items that you did not charge him for,&#8221; wrote Director of Human Resources Jaime Matheson in <a href="https://www.unionleader.com/news/education/food-services-company-denies-firing-nh-lunch-lady-over-feeding/article_dc2a8928-9910-56d9-98c9-953b3c317608.html">the letter</a>, obtained by The New Hampshire Union Leader.
&#8220;This is in strict violation of our Cash Handling Procedures, the School Charge Policy and Federal Regulation governing free meals,&#8221; Matheson continued.
Soon after, a spokesperson for the vendor claimed the company &#8220;would never authorize an employee to not feed a student or staff member a meal&#8221; and that no employee would &#8220;be let go because they provided this lunch to a student.&#8221;
Yet the letter Kimball received says otherwise. 
For what it&#8217;s worth, Kimball said the student paid for his meal the following day.
&#8220;His family is very well known in this town and I can guarantee that if I called his mother, she would have come right in and paid the bill. But I didn&#8217;t want to get her out of work,&#8221; she told The Associated Press. &#8220;I know they would have brought the money the next day. The bill was going to get paid.&#8221;
Now, more than a month after she was fired, Kimball has been offered her job back, as well as back pay. Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-hampshire-cafeteria-student-free-meal-job-offer.amp">reported</a> that the company offered to rehire Kimball and &#8220;work with the school district to revise policies and procedures regarding transactions.&#8221;
Kimball has declined the offer, according to Fox.
&#8220;But Kimball said she&#8217;s not interested in the politics of it all and has no intention of returning. She believes she was only offered her job back so that the company &#8216;could keep its contract&#8217; with the school district,&#8221; the outlet reported.
The school district also told Fox in a statement that it would review its policies to keep something like this from happening in the future. The district added that it had requested to cut short its contract with Café Services in order to accept new bidders next year.

She Was Fired For Giving A Free Lunch To A Student With No Money. Now She’s Refusing Her Job Back.

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He&#8217;s ahead in most of the Democratic 2020 primary polls, but former Vice President Joe Biden has been silent on whether he&#8217;ll enter the race to challenge President Donald Trump &#8212; until now.
On Tuesday, Hanna Trudo, the national politics reporter for National Journal revealed that Biden has finally made job offers to campaign staff in New Hampshire, the first state on the Democratic primary schedule.
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Scoop: <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> has made job offers in New Hampshire, a source directly familiar tells me.
&#8212; Hanna Trudo (@HCTrudo) <a href="https://twitter.com/HCTrudo/status/1100436467648790533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Scoop: @JoeBiden has made job offers in New Hampshire, a source directly familiar tells me,&#8221; Trudo tweeted.
A senior reporter at Huffington Post added just a short time later that Biden is also picking up staff in another early primary state, South Carolina.
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Adding to this: Joe Biden has also made job offers in South Carolina, a source tells me. <a href="https://t.co/0V54h3Io27">https://t.co/0V54h3Io27</a>
&#8212; maxwell (@maxwellstrachan) <a href="https://twitter.com/maxwellstrachan/status/1100445330175414272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Adding to this: Joe Biden has also made job offers in South Carolina, a source tells me,&#8221; according to Huffington Post reporter Maxwell Strachan.
The pickups follow a busy several weeks for Democratic presidential contenders, many of whom made their first trips to Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, hoping to build a firm foundation among early primary and caucus voters a year ahead of time. Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) both reportedly have staff on the ground in Iowa, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), also considered a front-runner (for now), is focusing her efforts on New Hampshire.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has been taking the airwaves by storm, building up name recognition, and preparing to launch major efforts in both the midwest and the northeast, where he&#8217;s long been among the strongest candidates. Sanders competed well in the Iowa caucuses in 2016, posting an unexpectedly strong finish against then-presumptive candidate Hillary Clinton. Neither ended up getting a majority of Iowa caucus votes. Sanders went on to handily win the New Hampshire primary, but couldn&#8217;t compete with Clinton&#8217;s command of Democratic &#8220;superdelegates.&#8221;
Biden has been considered among the best potential challengers to Trump since the first rumors of the 2020 campaign began surfacing, perhaps as early as January of 2017, and, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/18/joe-biden-2020-polling-1173226">according to Politico</a>, recent polling shows him well ahead in nearly every early primary state, even though he&#8217;s been coy about whether he plans to throw his hat into the ring.
Biden will face some problems. <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/18/joe-biden-2020-polling-1173226">Politico also reports</a> that more granular polls, taken at the same time as big name polls in key states, show Biden with less of a lead than expected and most Democratic voters still unsure of who to support in the 2020 contest.
&#8220;While most polls show the former vice president hovering around 30 percent of the Democratic primary vote, well ahead of second-place Sen. Bernie Sanders, two recent surveys paint a starkly different picture &#8212; raising the question of whether Biden is a real front-runner or just has big name-recognition,&#8221; Politico says. &#8220;Those polls show far more Democratic voters undecided about which candidate to support, and they pegged Biden&#8217;s backing at a much less intimidating 9 to 12 percent.&#8221;
That&#8217;s still better than most Democratic candidates can hope for now. And despite concerns about Biden getting into the contest &#8220;too late,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/politics/joe-biden-timing-history/index.html">as CNN reported Monday</a>, the Democratic primary is still technically a wide-open field. The first primary debates won&#8217;t come for another several weeks.
Biden&#8217;s most challenging hurdle may be less about campaign staff, financing, and name recognition, than about his demographic information. It&#8217;s not clear an older, wealthy, white male is the right pick for the identity politics-obsessed Democratic Party.

Ready For Joe? Biden Reportedly Making Job Offers To Campaign Staff in New Hampshire, South Carolina

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Former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders will not be joined by his son in the halls of Congress anytime soon.
If you didn&#8217;t realize that Levi Sanders was running for congressional office, don&#8217;t feel too bad. After managing to raise <a href="http://&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot; data-lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;&lt;p lang=&quot;en&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;BREAKING: Chris Pappas wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in New Hampshire&amp;#39;s 1st congressional district. &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/hashtag/APracecall?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;#APracecall&lt;/a&gt; at 8:50 p.m. EDT. &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/hashtag/Election2018?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;#Election2018&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/hashtag/NHprimary?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;#NHprimary&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/k5UvHRlDNU&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/k5UvHRlDNU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; AP Politics (@AP_Politics) &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1039677805544579074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 12, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;">just under $40,000</a> for his campaign to win the Democratic nomination for New Hampshire&#8217;s 1st Congressional District, Sanders clearly didn&#8217;t garner much attention, even among members of his own party in his own state.
Despite having his father&#8217;s impassioned endorsement and running on all the democratic socialist ideals that secured Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the nomination in New York, Levi Sanders, 49, couldn&#8217;t quite pull off the victory. In fact, he came in seventh out of eleven candidates.
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BREAKING: Chris Pappas wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in New Hampshire&#8217;s 1st congressional district. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/APracecall?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#APracecall</a> at 8:50 p.m. EDT. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Election2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Election2018</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NHprimary?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NHprimary</a> <a href="https://t.co/k5UvHRlDNU">pic.twitter.com/k5UvHRlDNU</a>
&#8212; AP Politics (@AP_Politics) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1039677805544579074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-son-levi-loses-new-hampshire-congressional-primary">Daily Beast</a> provides a succinct breakdown of the identity politics-heavy race:
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Chris Pappas, an openly gay member of the New Hampshire Executive Council, won the primary after also beating back Maura Sullivan, an Iraq War veteran and former Obama administration official who raised more money than him and had been criticized for moving to the state last year. When the race <a href="https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1039677805544579074">was called</a>, Sanders was in <a href="https://results.decisiondeskhq.com/new-hampshire">seventh place</a> out of eleven candidates.
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So what was Sanders&#8217; son <a href="https://www.sandersforcongress.com/platform">running on</a>? See if any of this sounds familiar:
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<li>Medicare For All</li>
<li>Free College Education</li>
<li>A Living Wage that guarantees &#8220;food, utilities, housing, healthcare, education, clothing, transportation, and savings&#8221;</li>
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The <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-son-levi-loses-new-hamsphire_us_5b96ad32e4b0162f472fd806">Huffington Post</a> provides some background on the younger Sanders&#8217; &#8220;controversy&#8221;-plagued past:
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<a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:8;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/1/17059670/levi-sanders-bernie-sanders-new-hampshire-congress-first-district" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Past controversies </a>that plagued him included an <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:8;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-levi-sanders-mad-online_us_5a970774e4b0e6a52304509f" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">aggressive online argument</a> he carried on with fellow alumni of his 1987 high school graduating class in Burlington, Vermont, over the charging penalties to reunion attendees who didn&#8217;t RSVP (he was against it).
He also tweeted that he isn&#8217;t in favor of <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="14" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://twitter.com/Celentra/status/804567569046929408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E804567569046929408%7Ctwgr%5E373939313b636f6e74726f6c%7Ctwcon%5Elogo&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Fpolicy-and-politics%2F2018%2F3%2F1%2F17059670%2Flevi-sanders-bernie-sanders-new-hampshire-congress-first-district" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">&#8220;white privilege garbage&#8221;</a> arguments and criticized MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid for <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="15" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:9;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://twitter.com/Celentra/status/916065670407782400" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">employing &#8220;identity politics.&#8221;</a>
At an August debate in the primary race, Sanders <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="16" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:10;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.concordmonitor.com/First-district-democrats-debate-in-Laconia-19375274" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">had his microphone turned off</a> by the moderator after refusing to stop talking when his allotted time expired. He was also booed by the crowd for attacking his fellow candidates.
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35501/liberals-turn-ocasio-cortez-over-linda-sarsour-james-barrett">Liberals Turn On Ocasio-Cortez Over Linda Sarsour Tweet</a>

Bernie Sanders’ Son Doesn’t Do So Great In His Congressional Primary

Last Thursday, a young female Iraq War veteran who had a 65-pound service dog to help with her anxiety and depression was shoved to the ground by a man who then stole her dog.
Ashley McCall, of Concord, New Hampshire, said she was about to put her 3-year-old pitbull, Jax, in her car behind her Concord, New Hampshire apartment when a man approached her and started asking her questions about her dog. She told <a href="http://whdh.com/news/iraq-war-vet-pleas-for-return-of-stolen-service-dog-in-concord-n-h/">WHDH</a>, &#8220;He starts asking me questions about what kind of dog he was, what his name was and then wanted to see the dog. And I told him, &#8216;I really need to get going.&#8217;&#8221;
But that didn&#8217;t stop the man, McCall told <a href="http://www.fox25boston.com/news/man-pushed-iraq-veteran-to-ground-stole-service-dog/664606341">WXFT</a>, &#8220;And he reaches for my door and he pulls it open so I shut it back and as I do that he takes me and slams me to the ground and then takes Jax and gets into this silver Ford Focus and leaves and starts speeding off.&#8221;
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A Concord NH woman who served a tour in Iraq says a man knocked her to the ground and stole her 3 yr old service dog Jax. The story on <a href="https://twitter.com/boston25?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@boston25</a> at 6:14 tonight. <a href="https://t.co/aJgKSibnSp">pic.twitter.com/aJgKSibnSp</a>
&#8212; Kelly Sullivan (@ksullivannews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ksullivannews/status/941780400531234818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2017</a></blockquote>
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McCall said the man threw Jax&#8217;s service vest and leash out of his car before fleeing. She said, &#8220;I&#8217;m screaming at him, this is my dog, what are you doing, you can&#8217;t do this! He just takes off.&#8221;
Fred Keach, a former law enforcement officer who owns a flower shop next door to McCall&#8217;s apartment building, told police later he had noticed the car that the assailant used had been sitting in a parking lot all morning. He asked what the assailant and the man with him were doing, only to get the reply that they were waiting for someone.
Keach told WXFT, &#8220;The explanation they were waiting for someone didn&#8217;t make sense when this day and age when everyone has a cell phone you can pick up the phone, call, and ask them where they are so from the beginning it looked like there was some ambush that was about to happen at some point.&#8221;
Keach saw the incident and took down the assailant&#8217;s car&#8217;s license plate number and type of car; he called and gave the information to police as well as a description of the men.
McCall&#8217;s husband, Christopher McCall, said Jax is trained to help Ashley with anxiety and depression. He said, &#8220;Ultimately, we just want the dog back. He&#8217;s a family member. He&#8217;s not a pet. He&#8217;s a family member.&#8221;
WHDH reports that the McCalls have announced a $500 reward for information helping them to find Jax; they have also started a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/5tnf7h-bringjaxhome">GoFundMe</a> campaign to raise additional reward funds.
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Young Female Iraq War Veteran Has Her Service Dog Violently Stolen From Her

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Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH) claimed, on CNN, that she has no idea who could be organizing the anti-Democratic &#8220;clean DACA&#8221; protesters that shouted down Nancy Pelosi on Monday and took to the streets outside Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday &#8211; and Shaheen appeared to suggest it could be Russia.
The bizarre interview began when CNN host Alisyn Camerota asked Shaheen, &#8220;Why, of all people, is [Pelosi] getting the backlash from DREAMers?&#8221; 
&#8220;DREAMers and young people across the country are frustrated, and they want to go to college and join the military and get jobs and be Americans, which is what they are. This is the only country most of them have ever known,&#8221; Shaheen responded, as though the protests, which are clearly involve high level planning and execution are merely spontaneous expressions of frustration and not organized.
Camerota pressed, though, asking Shaheen whether she thought protesters targeted Pelosi for daring to work with President Donald Trump. It was then that Shaheen appeared to say a foreign force was meddling in American immigration politics.
&#8220;You&#8217;ll have to ask them. Who knows what stirred up this kind of animosity. What we know we know about the Russians and their interference in the 2016 elections is that they tried to increase divisions within this country,&#8221; Shaheen said.
Oh, yes, it&#8217;s definitely the Russians. 
Like most Democratic legislators, Shaheen has, no doubt, benefited from billionaire George Soros&#8217;s money and influence. That means she might not appreciate knowing, as the Daily Wire reported yesterday, that Soros&#8217;s Open Society and Indivisible foundations are working aggressively with pro-immigrant organizations to organize and deploy anti-DACA protesters, in an effort to push Democrats into rejecting a &#8220;compromise&#8221; bill that would grant amnest to kids covered by DACA, while funding border sercurity and, possibly, a border wall.
Protesters at Pelosi&#8217;s hearing and at yesterday&#8217;s demonstration in New York, both chanted for a &#8220;clean DACA&#8221; bill, and Rep. Luis Guiterrez, arrested at Trump Tower protest, has routinely sought amnesty for all 11 million illegal immigrants living and working in the US.

Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen Says RUSSIA Is Behind Anti-Dem DACA Protests

Russia

Authorities in New Hampshire are investigating hundreds of potential voting fraud cases based on data showing that at least 458 people may have lied about their residency when casting their vote in the 2016 presidential election.
On election day last year, a total 5,903 people voted in New Hampshire using an ID from other states, which is permitted by state law. However, that law requires those without a New Hampshire ID to produce evidence of domicile in the state, notes <a href="http://www.nh1.com/news/hundreds-could-be-investigated-in-nh-for-voter-fraud-during-2016-election/">NH1</a>. 
Following up on the votes cast with proof of out-of-state IDs, the NH Secretary of State sent out &#8220;6,033 letters to voters with no proof of domicile and so far 458 of the letters have bounced back as undeliverable &#8211; a clear sign those who filled them out lied,&#8221; suggests the <a href="http://www.theamericanmirror.com/new-hampshire-investigating-458-voter-fraud/">American Mirror</a>. 
Additionally, the NH Secretary of State&#8217;s office sent out another 764 letters to &#8220;voters who cast a ballot without a satisfactory photo identification&#8221; in this past presidential election. There has yet to be confirmation on how many of those letters bounced back as undeliverable.
Soon following the election, then-President-elect Donald Trump claimed there was &#8220;serious&#8221; voter fraud, directly citing New Hampshire as an example:
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Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California &#8211; so why isn&#8217;t the media reporting on this? Serious bias &#8211; big problem!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/803033642545115140">November 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Trump fell short of the electoral votes in NH to Democrat Hillary Clinton by just under 3,000 votes.
The president would further claim in February that he and former senator Kelly Ayotte were victims of voter fraud in the state. The Washington Post followed up on the claim, running a story headlined, &#8220;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/02/28/we-cant-find-any-evidence-of-voting-fraud-in-new-hampshire/?utm_term=.ade110f22d9f">We can&#8217;t find any evidence of voter fraud in New Hampshire</a>&#8220;:
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President Trump and his staff continue to claim that voter fraud tainted the 2016 election. Most recently, Trump said that Massachusetts residents were bused into New Hampshire to vote. According to Trump adviser Stephen Miller, &#8220;I can tell you that this issue of busing voters into New Hampshire [from Massachusetts] is widely known by anyone who&#8217;s worked in New Hampshire politics. It&#8217;s very real. It&#8217;s very serious.&#8221;
Trump also alleged that former Republican senator Kelly Ayotte would not have lost to Democrat Maggie Hassan if Massachusetts voters hadn&#8217;t illegally voted in New Hampshire. 
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Moreover, in a public statement, federal election commissioner Ellen L. Weinstraub called Trump&#8217;s claims &#8220;extraordinarily serious and specific,&#8221; demanding he &#8220;share his evidence with the public and with the appropriate law enforcement authorities so that his allegations may be investigated promptly and thoroughly.
&#8220;The scheme the President of the United States alleges would constitute thousands of felony criminal offenses under New Hampshire law,&#8221; she added.
Although <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14276/liberal-activist-pleads-guilty-14-counts-voter-amanda-prestigiacomo">real instances of voter fraud</a> abound, the left continues to deny the claim. Perhaps voter ID laws are not suggested because Republicans are evil racists, but because voter fraud is an actual problem.

Leftist Narrative Fail: 458 People Being Investigated For Voter Fraud In New Hampshire

On Wednesday, the governor of New Hampshire <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2017/03/sununu_sanctuary_lawrence_fuels_nh_drug_deals">blasted a sanctuary city</a> in neighboring Massachusetts for the burgeoning drug trade in his state.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu blamed Lawrence, Massachusetts, a sanctuary city, asserting there is &#8220;no doubt&#8221; that illegal immigrants from there were selling deadly fentanyl across the state border. He said, &#8220;For example, Lawrence, right? So you have undocumented drug dealers that are dealing these drugs, they are getting arrested, they are being given bail by judges &#8230; they&#8217;re jumping bail, getting a new ID and they&#8217;re back in that same home dealing drugs a week later. It&#8217;s an absolutely crazy system.&#8221;
Sununu <a href="http://www.wmur.com/article/sununu-drugs-in-nh-coming-straight-out-of-lawrence/9081244">said</a>, &#8220;It&#8217;s coming from Lawrence. Eighty-five percent of the fentanyl in this state is coming straight out of Lawrence, Massachusetts.&#8221; He added, &#8220;there&#8217;s no doubt&#8221; illegal immigrants are involved.
Fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller, is up to 50 times <a href="Fentanyl,%20which%20looks%20like%20heroin,%20is%20a%20powerful%20synthetic%20painkiller%20that%20has%20been%20laced%20into%20heroin%20but%20is%20increasingly%20being%20sold%20by%20itself%20%25E2%2580%2594%20often%20without%20the%20user%25E2%2580%2599s%20knowledge.%20It%20is%20up%20to%2050%20times%20more%20powerful%20than%20heroin%20and%20up%20to%20100%20times%20more%20potent%20then%20morphine.%20A%20tiny%20bit%20can%20be%20fatal.">more powerful</a> than heroin and up to 100 times more potent then morphine. Even a tiny amount can be fatal.
David Procopio, a Massachusetts State Police spokesman, admitted Lawrence remains &#8220;a significant destination for heroin and fentanyl,&#8221; noting it is exported from Central America; Billy Pitman, a spokesman for Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, would only comment that the opioid epidemic &#8220;knows no geographic boundaries.&#8221;
Lawrence Mayor Daniel Rivera protested:
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I&#8217;m a little shocked. Governor Sununu comes from a really good family. You think he&#8217;d be a little bit smarter than to just go after immigrants and communities. It must be in vogue. When there&#8217;s a tough problem, say there&#8217;s an easy solution and blame somebody who has nothing to do with it. &#8230; What we need to do is come together and say, &#8220;How do we deal with the addiction problem?&#8221;
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Sununu concluded, &#8220;Guess what? We&#8217;re going in. We&#8217;re going to get tough on these guys, and I want to scare every dealer that wants to come across that border. We&#8217;re not giving dealers nine months on parole and probation anymore. We&#8217;re putting them away for the five, 10 and 15 years that they deserve.&#8221;

NH Governor Attacks MA Sanctuary City For Exporting Fatal Drug To His State

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Sanctuary Cities

A new poll shows that real estate mogul Donald Trump is gaining on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire.
The poll, conducted by <a href="http://www.wbur.org/2016/05/18/wbur-poll-clinton-trump-new-hampshire">WBUR</a>, shows Clinton with a razor-thin lead of 2 percentage points over Trump, 44 percent to 42 percent among New Hampshire voters, while seven percent are undecided.
The reason for the close race is because Granite State voters don&#8217;t like either candidate: 58 percent have an unfavorable view of both Trump and Clinton. Thirty-five percent have of Granite State voters have a positive view of Clinton, while 33 percent have a positive view of Trump.
Both candidates are disliked to the point where a hypothetical third-party run by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) would garner 21 percent of the vote in a three-way race, while Trump would receive 33 percent of the vote and Clinton would get 37 percent of the vote.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), on the other hand, is viewed quite positively by New Hampshire voters with a favorability of 55 percent and unfavorability of 34 percent. In fact, Sanders trounces Trump in the poll, 54 percent to 38 percent.
The poll was conducted among 501 likely voters from May 12-15, with a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
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Both candidates are disliked to the point where a hypothetical third-party run by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) would garner 21 percent of the vote in a three-way race, while Trump would receive 33 percent of the vote and Clinton would get 37 percent of the vote.

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Before Wednesday&#8217;s WBUR poll, here&#8217;s what the <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/nh/new_hampshire_trump_vs_clinton-5596.html">previous polling data</a> showed in a Trump vs. Clinton matchup in the Granite State:
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<li>Dartmouth: Clinton 34 percent, Trump 29 percent</li>
<li>WBUR: Clinton 50 percent, Trump 31 percent</li>
<li>NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist: Clinton 45 percent, Trump 44 percent</li>
<li>Public Policy Polling: Clinton 50, Trump 36</li>
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The<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/nh/new_hampshire_trump_vs_clinton-5596.html"> RealClearPolitics polling averages</a> between Clinton and Trump in New Hampshire have Clinton with an eight-percentage-point lead over Trump, 44.6 percent to 36.4 percent.

Poll: Trump Gaining In New Hampshire

Hillary Clinton

A Troy, New Hampshire woman was arrested for selling the classiest, most luxurious narcotic to ever hit the streets of North America. That&#8217;s right: Trump heroin. 
Last Thursday, Darcie Rae Hall, 36, was charged with the selling of a controlled substance. What made this drug bust more unique was the brand name stamped on each unit: &#8220;Donald Trump.&#8221;
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Hall, who has a record that includes four arrests for possession of a controlled substance, was taken down by a fellow from the drug world who turned snitch in hopes of getting a reduced sentence.
The <a href="http://www.unionleader.com/Troy-woman-sells-Trump-labeled-heroin" target="_blank">UnionLeader</a> reports:
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&#8220;According to court documents, a detective arranged for a confidential informant &#8212; who is attempting to &#8220;obtain favorable consideration&#8221; on a pending charge of possession of a controlled substance &#8212; to purchase a bundle of heroin from Hall through someone who has purchased up to ten grams of heroin from Hall more than 30 times.
The first buy took place in the bathroom at McDonald&#8217;s on Winchester Street in Keene.
The second buy took place in a vehicle parked at the Troy mini-mart on Route 12.
When the buyer brought this second bundle to the detective, he wrote in the arrest affidavit, &#8220;I also observed that each wax bag was stamped with a &#8216;Donald Trump&#8217; logo.&#8221;&#8221;
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 Police said that since she was on probation at the time of her arrest, violation charges will also be filed.
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&#8220;She was held overnight in lieu of $2,000 cash bail.
On Friday, Hall waived arraignment in the Cheshire County Superior Court in Keene. She entered a plea of not guilty. Her $2,000 cash bail was upheld and she remains at the Cheshire County House of Corrections in Keene.&#8221;
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Hall isn&#8217;t the first person to use a political figure to boost drug sales. In a 2013 Massachusetts drug bust, police seized 1,250 individual packets of heroin including hundreds that were labeled &#8220;Obamacare.&#8221;
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Users say the main differences in the two popular brands are that &#8220;Trump&#8221; heroin comes with its own gold-plated melting spoon and &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; comes with its own death panel.
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Woman Arrested For Selling Trump Brand Heroin

On Tuesday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton got <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/2072/donald-trump-says-hillary-got-schlonged-putzes-ben-shapiro">schlonged</a> by socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the New Hampshire primary by 22 percentage points. Still, <a href="http://politicalillusionsexposed.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/clint.jpg">Queen Hillary</a> walked away with possibly two more delegates than Sanders numbered in his post-superdelegate count.
The delegate split pre-superdelegate count was based on popular vote; with a total of 24 &#8220;pledged&#8221; delegates, Sanders received 13 whereas Hillary only received nine (two currently remain &#8220;<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/10/hillary-earns-more-new-hampshire-delegates-than-sanders-after-loss/">allotted to neither</a>&#8221;). Sanders obviously won more delegates here because &#8220;pledged&#8221; delegates are mandated to line-up behind the candidate as reflected in the popular vote.
But here&#8217;s where Sanders got schlonged: A total of eight superdelegates, who can vote for either candidate no matter how the state votes, unsurprisingly backed Hillary over Bernie. Thus far, six of the eight superdelegates have been awarded to the former secretary of state while two remain &#8220;undecided.&#8221;
This brings Hillary to a total of 15 delegates while Sanders stays with the 13 he won via popular vote.
As we all know, Democrats love redistribution. So maybe New Hampshire is just their example of how &#8220;fair&#8221; redistribution, in this case with votes, can actually be.
A quick thought from the great Rush Limbaugh on the situation: &#8220;Bernie&#8217;s always talking about how this system&#8217;s rigged and that system&#8217;s rigged, the economy is rigged and Wall Street&#8217;s rigged. Wait &#8217;til he finds out that New Hampshire was rigged.&#8221;
<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/hillary-wins-more-delegates-despite-getting-skunked/">H/T</a> WND

Sanders Won New Hampshire. Hillary Won More Delegates. Call It Vote Redistribution.

In examining the results of the Tuesday&#8217;s New Hampshire primary, it&#8217;s become clear that one candidate had the worst return on his investment in the state: former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R).
Bush spent<a href="http://soshable.com/the-five-candidates-cruz-beat-spent-72-1-million-in-new-hampshire-cruz-spent-580k/"> $36.1 million</a> in New Hampshire, and yet finished in <a href="http://www.wmur.com/politics/2016-full-new-hampshire-presidential-primary-election-results/37649066">fourth place</a> in New Hampshire, behind Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.), Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), and real estate mogul Donald Trump. That means that Bush spent<a href="http://theresurgent.com/wheres-the-media-orgasm-over-ted-cruzs-showing/"> $1,200 per vote</a> in New Hampshire. By comparison, Cruz spent <a href="http://theresurgent.com/wheres-the-media-orgasm-over-ted-cruzs-showing/">$18 per vote</a> and finished ahead of Bush.
Even though Bush is <a href="http://theweek.com/speedreads/604796/jeb-bush-tells-supporters-campaigns-not-dead">claiming that his campaign isn&#8217;t over,</a> it was clear he was pulling out all the stops in New Hampshire. Not only did he invest millions of dollars into the state, he ran ads featuring his <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/food/clinton-detour-hampshire-visit-flint-michigan-140954322--election.html">brother,</a> former President George W. Bush, and his <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/01/22/barbara-bush-flips-on-jeb-with-trump-jab-in-new-ad/">mother,</a> former First Lady Barbara Bush, who even<a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/02/05/465672072/barbara-bush-draws-a-crowd-in-new-hampshire-campaigning-for-jeb"> joined her son on the campaign trail</a> in New Hampshire. Despite all that, he only placed fourth, and lost to Cruz, who spent very little time and resources in the <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/02/10/new-hampshire-results-cruz-comes-in-third-spends-only-800000/">fifth most liberal state</a> voting in the Republican primary.
This is becoming a common theme for Bush, as he spent <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/02/jeb-bush-has-spent-more-than-5000-per-vote-so-far/">over $5,000 per vote</a> in Iowa while finishing with a dismal three percent of the vote. Back in December, The Daily Wire <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/1876/guess-who-ran-most-ineffective-ad-campaign-aaron-bandler">reported</a> on how Bush was running the least effective ad campaign in history, and Bush&#8217;s abysmal results of Iowa and New Hampshire are proving that point.
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Bush spent $1,200 per vote in New Hampshire. By comparison, Cruz spent $18 per vote and finished ahead of Bush.

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For now, it&#8217;s turning into a <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/02/new-hampshire-gives-the-big-middle-finger-to-the-gop-establishment">Trump vs. Cruz race</a> as Bush wastes his resources <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/new-hampshire-primary-2016-live-updates/2016/02/bush-plans-scorched-earth-attack-on-kasich-rubio-219058">attacking Kasich and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.).</a>

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