Fucking MAGA moron:
New Hampshire GOP Senate nominee Don Bolduc on Sunday criticized Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) for her focus on the issue of abortion.
“She just wants to hang on with dear life,” Buldoc said in an interview with New Hampshire television station WMUR. “Well, guess what? Your views are not consistent with the average Granite Stater, number one. Number two, get over it. This is about the economy, fiscal responsibility, and the safety and security of this nation.”
Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general, is hoping to deny Hassan a second term in November’s midterm elections. A GOP victory there would increase the odds of the party’s takeover of the Senate.
The right-wing candidate was not the preferred choice of establishment Republicans to take on Hassan. He holds a wide variety of extreme beliefs: He wants to eliminate both the FBI and the Department of Education, backed former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election and called GOP Gov. Chris Sununu a “Chinese Communist sympathizer.”
But Buldoc is trying to walk a fine line on abortion, a hot-button issue motivating voters across the country. He told WMUR that legislation proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) banning abortion after 15 weeks is “misguided,” adding that the “federal government is way too much into our business.”
Senator Hassan didn’t waste any time slamming Buldoc on this:
Here’s the reason Buldoc doesn’t want to talk about national abortion bans:
A new poll from the St. Anselm College Survey Center shows the issue of abortion is motivating likely voters in New Hampshire.
The poll of nearly 2,000 registered voters shows that when asked for their personal position on abortion, 71% identified as pro-choice, 25% described themselves as pro-life and 3% were unsure.
When it comes to the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of the Roe vs. Wade decision that ensured national abortion rights, 38% said they support the ruling, 58% oppose it and 5% are unsure.
When asked how important the issue of abortion will be in determining their vote in upcoming elections, 60% responded extremely or very important, while 40% said it would be somewhat or not important.
"The big takeaway is that people who are pro-choice are very motivated as they go toward the midterms," said Neil Levesque, of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics. "That could spell trouble for people who are not pro-choice or are pro-life on the ballot."
The poll of 1,898 registered voters was conducted from Aug. 9-11 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.3%. The survey center said the data were weighted for age, gender, geography, and education based on a voter demographic model derived from historical voting patterns, but were not weighted by party registration or party identification.
And Buldoc is desperately looking for a distraction to dupe voters:
Even by the standards of politicians, it was an astonishing flip-flop: Just after winning his Republican primary on Tuesday, New Hampshire Senate candidate Don Bolduc said he no longer believed that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump and conceded that Joe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States.
“I’ve done a lot of research on this, and I’ve spent the past couple weeks talking to Granite Staters all over the state from every party, and I have come to the conclusion — and I want to be definitive on this — the election was not stolen,” Bolduc told Fox News.
Bolduc’s reversal is part of a pathetic pattern of GOP candidates parroting Trump’s lies in order to win Republican primaries and then immediately changing their tune in the general election. In Massachusetts, Republican gubernatorial nominee Geoff Diehl said the election was rigged — but now says, “the election is over and he [Biden] won.”
Well, duh. There’s never been even a scintilla of evidence of the contrary, much less any that would take weeks of research to untangle. Trump’s continuing attacks on the integrity of the election were based on fiction, as Bolduc and Diehl surely knew all along.
Here’s something else you should know:
Don Bolduc, a retired special forces general who on Tuesday won his party’s nomination to take on Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan, had campaigned as an unapologetic supporter of Trump’s “Big Lie” about the results of the 2020 presidential election—along with a panoply of other conspiracy theories. Facing harsh scrutiny following his primary win, Bolduc is now scrambling to appear more rational, telling a Fox News interviewer Thursday that he has suddenly come to the conclusion that “the election was not stolen.”
But Bolduc has not backed off what may well be his most antidemocratic stance: He wants to repeal the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, which established an elected US Senate.
Bolduc boldly announced in a debate in August that, while he wants New Hampshire voters to elect him to the US Senate, he also wants to take away their right to participate in future Senate elections. Under the retired general’s plan, democracy would be discarded and senators would be named by the state’s Republican legislators.
That’s how members were selected before the Constitution was amended in 1913 to take the selection process away from partisan legislators and establish the direct election of US senators. Bolduc is enthusiastic about taking giant leap backward. When another Republican primary candidate suggested that it was unlikely that the United States would hit the reverse button on this form of democracy, because “the genie’s out of the bottle on this,” the eventual nominee said, “The genie’s not out of the bottle—you can stuff that genie’s head right back in there, throw his body in there, and put the cap on it.”
Here’s the latest polling out of New Hampshire:
But let’s not get complacent thought because it’s all about turnout.
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