Latest news out of New Hampshire:
Women’s health issues are taking center stage this week in the increasingly bitter U.S. Senate campaign between Republican incumbent Sen. Kelly Ayotte and her Democratic challenger, Gov. Maggie Hassan
Hassan’s campaign on Monday morning released three new web ads attacking Ayotte for voting six times to defund Planned Parenthood.
Hassan on Monday was joined by women supporters, including former state Senate President Sylvia Larsen and former New Hampshire House Speaker Terie Norelli, at a news conference to speak about women’s health and economic opportunity issues.
“I strongly support a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions and control her own destiny and I’m extremely proud that this year we were able to restore state funding for Planned Parenthood,” Hassan said. “Unfortunately, throughout her entire time in Washington, Sen. Ayotte has been on the side of blocking women’s access to health care. From Sen. Ayotte’s six votes to defund Planned Parenthood to her desire to overturn Roe v. Wade, and her support for allowing employers to deny contraceptive coverage to women, Sen. Ayotte has consistently voted against the interests of Granite State women and their families. In the Senate, I will always fight to protect a woman’s right to make her own health decisions and to safely and affordably access health care.”
Here are Hassan’s two other ads:
Hassan also had a special guest stump for her on the campaign trail over the weekend:
US Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts delivered her mix of progressive talk and anti-Donald J. Trump rhetoric Saturday in New Hampshire, where voters have a chance in November to help Hillary Clinton become the first woman president and send a full slate of female candidates to Congress.
Warren, the first woman elected to the US Senate in Massachusetts, appeared at events across the state as she campaigned for Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, and New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan, who is running for the US Senate as a Democrat.
Keeping up her criticism of Trump, Warren told hundreds of volunteers that the Republican nominee for president is “making hate OK in this country.”
“We’re here to say hate is not OK,” Warren said during a gathering at the local Democratic National Committee headquarters in Nashua. “We build a stronger America together. That’s what this is about.”
Speaking with reporters, Warren also assailed US Senator Ted Cruz, who endorsed his former rival Friday despite having once called Trump a “pathological liar.”
“How many things has Ted Cruz already said about Donald Trump? And now he said, ‘Oh I take that back,’ ” Warren said. “Is that really what your word is worth, Ted Cruz?”
She urged volunteers to do everything they can to defeat Trump and US Senator Kelly Ayotte, a Republican who is running against Hassan.
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