I don't know, if I was a Democrat in NH I would be suggesting for Corey to run (please run).
Have had two years of Trump's flailing and confusing governance.
People are exhausted of it.
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The Sununus and the GOP are one ones who spent decades promoting the draconian policies that eventually paved the way for a Trump presidency and now spin off candidates like Corey Lendowski. Just rewards if you ask me.
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You know what they say Corey, "Hope springs eternal."
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Thanks Charles Koch.
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The reality is that Corey Lewandowsky will almost certainly not try to become the Republican candidate. He knows that the good people of New Hampshire will never elect him. For all his bravado, bluster and bullying he will not have the guts to run. This is just more of his brazen self-promotion. All of that said, Corey please run!
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Go for it Lewandowski. Senator Shaheen is, rightfully, one of the most popular senators in the country and Trump is underwater by double digits in my home state. If you’re on the ticket our chances of removing Sununu are even higher.
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If there's one thing we learned from the rise of Trump, it's that the parody of GOP voters that we all found ridiculous in its anti-intellectualism, self-hatred, and lack of forethought wasn't a parody at all.
Mr. Lewandowski, like all future Republican candidates, has a blueprint for success. All he has to do in order to win is to -- just like Trump -- possess a total lack of honesty and character.
He seems fully qualified in that area.
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He is just another example of how far the Republican party has fallen to become the party of sleaze, swamp and hate
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How do we raise children to be thoughtful, good, and kind when we have politicians running against people by calling them "bed wetters?" The insults coming from some in the Republican party (Trump, Lewandowski) are puerile and bring shame to the party of Lincoln and to the United States of America. We've been taken over by 12-year-old school bullies.
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to quote your article:
"... like his pugilistic political patron as he unleashed a blur of attacks and insinuations in a manner reminiscent of an out-of-control garden hose ... "
Pugilistic is a word for fighters. It implies courage. You imply that both Lewandowski and Trump exhibit some sort of 'courage'. In the primaries people were beaten during Trump rallies when Lewandowski ran his campaign and Trump encouraged that behavior. Now, 2+ years later, white supremacists are encouraged by the person in the WH.
Please, don't pull punches. Both Lewandowski and Trump are bullies and cowards. If that appeals to NH, fine.
Be my guest' Elect a glorified thug. Revel in his phony machismo. Shrivel up, narrow the context, avoid reality and reject any prospect of expanding consciousness.
Eventually you might understand that decency and courage go hand in hand. Like bullying and cowardice.
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I don't know much about Lewandowski but I do remember that he is the bigoted sociopath who said "womp womp" (signifying mock sobbing) when told of a ten-year-old girl with Down Syndrome who had been separated from her parents and put in a holding cell after her parents sought asylum in the United States. Lewandowski then refused every opportunity to walk back his callousness and refused to apologize for it. The other thing I know about Lewandowski is that, as Trump's campaign manager, he oversaw the most nakedly antisemitic, bigoted and xenophobic presidential campaign in modern history. What more do I need to know about him?
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It's sickening enough to see trump board Air Force One, but to see Lewandowski as his on board guest, taxiing around on the taxpayer dime is insult to injury.
trump, lewandowski and for the most part, the RNC are starting to make the Mafia look ethical.
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Trump narrowly lost NH in 2016. We still have some Trumpists, but a lot of people who voted for him out of some sense of “what the heck - why not?” or spite, have learned their lesson. Trump’ll lose here by 10-15 points in 2020. As will Lewandowski, if he runs (he likely won’t, because he knows this as well). Lewandowski could win in Alabama, or Mississippi - someplace where corrupt, rude Republican hacks can win despite their ugliness. But not here. Corey will get trounced in NH, if he runs.
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I was raised and still live in southern New Hampshire. The thought of Corey Lewandowski representing the granite state in Washington, is abhorrent. He does not represent the population of this great state. I am a registered Republican, who votes across party lines and was planning to change my party affiliation. Now I feel like I have to stay as a Republican (for now) so that in the primary, I can vote against these nutters who are destroying our country. They have already destroyed the Republican party.
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Ah, yes, "Only the best people." With all the resignations and indictments, what a joke that has become.
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The New Hampshire you see on TV and the New Hampshire that really is - are two different things.
Every four years, news crews head for a small town diner, often up in Coos, looking for the right mix of red plaid shirts, feed caps and barn boots, making sure someone says "Ayuh" before they yell "cut!".
That's one part of New Hampshire, the part that baby television producers think will be recognizable.
It's far more than that and has been for decades.
There's the deep red newspaper of record, which is vilified as much as it's celebrated, but is the public face of the state if you want to read what's happening.
Alas, the paper's editorial tenor is not indicative of the state as a whole, and after years of combination by a character who truly had to be seen and heard to be believed, his successor showed some hope in a seemingly wholesale rejection of Trump as a presidential candidate.
That's not New Hampshire. It has huge academic traditions, lots of technology work, and a lot more progressive thinkers than TV would let you think.
Lewandowski will rally a certain set of newspaper readers, but the majority of NH voters will likely see right through him. The smartest thing CNN did was ask him on the air, where he would invariably chew on his own shoe leather for a fun four minutes, thinking he was the smartest guy in any room.
He'll be amusing, but given his previous antics in NH politics, he's not got much of a chance.
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Trump lost New Hampshire three years ago. New Hampshire residence will hand trump another loss next year.
Mr. lewandowski. who resides in Windham , is remembered for grabbing the arm of a female reporter who was trying to ask the un indicted coconspirator a question.
Trump lite.
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As a New Hampshire attorney I have always enjoyed being underestimated by other attorneys from “outside.” Underestimating people from this State for their urbanity, insight, objective thinking and basic fairness is a longstanding practice, and a severely flawed one. It can be taken advantage of by in-staters with something close to impunity.
Which brings me to today’s article.
There should be far more credit in the story for the layered and thoughtful approach most New Hampshire voters exercise when they enter the voting booth. Indeed, that approach goes a long way in explaining why the national primary here continues to have such national importance. Retail politics still counts.
Our Congressional delegation understands that. Our present Governor understands that. And I suspect the many Republican regulars not quoted in your story (Tom Rath, former governors Steve Merrill and Craig Benson, and former senators Scott Brown and Gordon Humphrey, just to name a few) understand that as well.
Bring on Mr. Lewandowski and President Teump. Retail politics will out.
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What does "retail politics will out" mean? Can't tell from your comment whether you are for or against Trump and his ilk. You spent a lot of time explaining how deep and mysterious NH voters are. Not sure what your point was in relation to the article though.
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Lewandowski has run unsuccessfully for office twice, once in Massachusetts and once in New Hampshire.
Given the climate of the National Economy, which is teetering on the brink of Recession, this Don Quixote really thinks folks are going to fall for his pathetic shtick on the third time around? That is laughable....
Dear God.....save me from those who think you've "appointed" them to rule over us.
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@Paul P. We can only hope that a "gaslight me once, shame on you and it won't happen again" mentality takes hold in the electorate and we show the crooked charlatans the door-to the swamp from where they came from.
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It seems that the main two things we can do as an average citizen is to vote and to use our wallet to do our voting as well. nyt and Forbes have articles on the Progresssive Shopper that lists out how companies are trending without digging through the SEC filings ... please look into this and vote with your wallet as well!
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The same Corey Lewandowski who brusquely grabbed a woman reporter's arm at one of Trump's 2016 campaign rallies? And Trump said he would pay Lewandowski's legal bill?
That Corey Lewandowski?
Ugh.
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May God spare us from any further suffering from Trump and his followers.
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"Some Republican state leaders are shuddering."
Please. They are cowards who will fall all over themselves to fall in line behind the Trump machine. Knees buckling. Backs bending.
They are a weak, useless bunch.
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The hubris of those in Trump's circle is astounding.
But the media has not for about two months reported on the first children, Jared & Ivanka. What is going on?
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Shudder . . . I guess that's all we can expect from Republican leaders.
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Let's assume that Lewandowski wins the primary.
When Lewandowski gets crushed in the general election, will it be because buses and buses of people came from different states to vote for Senator Shaheen?
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@BearBoy
"Illegal voting"? Do you know what it even means? It means you used someone else's identity to register to vote, nearly impossible. Or you are not a citizen, but somehow have a legal Social Security number, even more impossible. "Illegal voters" are an old GOP trope, not grounded in fact. Illegal voting was investigated; it was an unfounded, undocumented claim by the GOP. Proof of citizenship needed to register to vote; proof of residence required to vote in a specific State primary. As a 5th generation Californian, I had to provide proof of citizenship to register. I had to show photo I.D. at the polling venue. I am a life long Democrat; we win because we outnumber Republicans; that is a fact. When we lose, it is usually a failure to get out the vote.
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@BearBoy You need to look at the real data concerning illegal voting, such as it is.
Now, what evidence do you have to support your assertion or is it just doing as Trump does....
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@BearBoy
The only one who cheated to try to win an election was the same person who gratefully encouraged Russian interference in that election. It is also the same one who told us he'd be happy to accept Russia's assistance again. It is also the same one who rejected the findings of every intelligence agency & made a fool out of himself when he sat next to Putin & told us that he believes Putin's denials of meddling.
No, the only cheating going on has been committed by Republicans.
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I relish the thought of a much more blue New Hampshire. And that will happen with the extinction of the remaining few moderate Republicans.
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Wherever republicans retire from senate and house seats there will be Trump-snakes more than willing to fill the void and give the sycophants what they want. The far right's reach will hopefully exceed its grasp, and 2020 will be a reset, the beginning of reparations for these lost years.
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This would be a great turn of events in New Hampshire as it would further excite the progressive electorate and turn out the vote.
Hopefully such a wave will help us get rid of the anti human milquetoast that is John Sununu at the same time.
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The conservatives I know in New Hampshire are fiercely independent, and well read. They don't lie, and don't suffer fools willingly.
I don't see New Hampshire voting for Trump.
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Run, Corey, run!
We need more out-of-touch, deplorable Republicans to step into the spotlight, to expose the moral rot that's destroying their party (and our country) from within.
Sure, he might win, and do some serious damage (like Trump). But at some point, you've gotta lance the boil, pop the pimple, etc.
So, Corey, go for it!
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New Hampshire Republicans would be doing themselves, their state and their party a huge favor in rejecting the trumpian cancer in any form. Trump will - if he doesn't end up in a psychiatric ward first - be defeated in 2020. A radical-right rump may remain, but the rebuilding of the GOP into the pragmatic, responsible party it once was will begin and trumpism will be seen clearly my what it is: an ugly aberration most Americans will be trying hard to forget.
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Let him run, please. He’ll be crushed. Anything that sets back the Russian Republicans (thank you, Socrates!) further on their heels is a boon to America’s recovery from this relentless, absurd, demonic nightmare.
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"Mr. Lewandowski, who has become rich from his consulting work thanks to his relationship with Mr. Trump,.."
Wow, that really popped out at me. He's been consulting based on this rep for at the most, what, 2-3 years? And that's all the time it took to become rich? Wonder what Corey's per-hour is.
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Great vignette by Jonathan Martin. It looks like NH is one to watch to see how much control trump exerts on the former Republican Party. 2020's is a serious election. Were trump to win, let alone regain the House, it would signal a trump realignment, something vile to many. A Lewandowski win in 2020 could be another deleterious side effect of a trump victory. And, even though:
"Yet Mr. Lewandowski’s prospective bid has unsettled an array of powerful New Hampshire Republicans, including Gov. Christopher T. Sununu, who are not keen on elevating a political operative-turned-Washington consultant as their Senate standard-bearer."
it is the trump voter who will decide Lewandowsky's fate. When trump speaks, they unquestioningly obey. After all, if trump shot someone on Fifth Avenue, they'd still vote for him, as trump himself tells us. So they'll come out to vote for Lewandowsky.
It all depends on how good a state's education is. Democracies rely on educated voters. We'll see how good New Hampshire's education is.
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Another report attempting to push forward the idea of moderates in the Republican party. Sorry folks , there are no moderate Republicans, not john Kasich, not Susan Collins, not Judd Gregg, none. Once elected, they fall in line, vote for the radical, right wing judges, support Trump, and work against the interests of ordinary people. Centrist Republican is an oxymoron.
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The time is on the Democrats' side. The Republican party has been hemorrhaging badly since 2016, with many moderates, abhorred by Trump's ignorance, immorality and corruption, changing their political affiliation to independent. Barring (or perhaps even despite?) the effects of gerrymandering, I am hopeful the blue wave will continue in 2020.
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We will not have him. Hopefully we shake off our New England fondness for Republican Governors as well, as Sununu's veto power is the one thing stifling the will of the General Court, keeping the Granite State in an age of Prohibition and aversion to renewable energy.
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Many Massachusetts residents, over the past 30-40 years, have moved to southern New Hampshire, so they could afford to buy a house, and then commuted to their jobs in the Boston area.
It is not an exaggeration to say that these transplants have transformed New Hampshire politics, making it possible for the Democrats to take control of state government. If this Trump acolyte is nominated, I think it will only serve to further entrench Democrats in state and local offices.
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Big miscalculation, as is Trump’s way, as NH continues to evolve to blue. While no one expects deep thoughts from Messrs. Trump and Lewandowski, it is painfully apparent that being Trump’s water boy does not a Senator make. Ask Roy Moore.
If NH voters want to elect a candidate with thuggish behavior they already have numerous possibles in the state Senate.
The “Peter Principle” (whose meaning Corey is likely to misinterpret) says that one rises to one’s highest level of incompetence. Corey, are you ready?
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"the optics of nominating a Washington wheeler-dealer for the Senate would instead be problematic"
That isn't the problem. Trump is no longer an outsider either. He is President, running for re-election.
Therefore someone who has been helping him is not hurt by being from Trump, if he is accepted as being part of "good things" Trump is doing in Washington. He "would be the first figure from the Trump inner circle to step forward for elected office."
This turns on whether Trump is doing good things, or is even anything other than his own ego, grandstanding to promote his brand.
Lewandowski's greatest weakness is Trump, just as it is his greatest strength. He is a New Hampshire referendum on whether there is such a thing as Trumpism, and whether that is a good thing.
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@Mark Thomason. I guess the women of the Granite state will just ignore his documented attack on a journalist and another case brought by a trump backer of sexual assault.
Neither case was brought to trial.
In the case of the journalist, the Palm Beach prosecutor said, "there was probable cause to make an arrest" and "the facts support the allegation that Mr. Lewandowski did grab Ms. Fields' arm against her will," but "the evidence cannot prove all legally required elements of the crime alleged and is insufficient to support a criminal prosecution."
Assault has always been a winning strategy. Must be part of the trump playbook.
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Silly, shuddering Republicans still don't realize it's the Trump Party.
"Republican Party" is merely the official name.
The reason? Trump is the quintessence of Republicanism: albeit naked, unadorned, and stripped of politeness.
It's this revealing openness that distresses some Republicans.
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NH Republicans' reputation as a more thoughtful brand will take a brutal beating no matter what happens in the campaigns, primary, or general election.
The odious Lewandowski speaks in unity for all the state's voters who wish to turn NH into Mississippi north.
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So other than being a loudmouth and a boor what else has he got? I realize that in Trumpland that is very often all you get but New Hampshire voters usually want to hear y'know policy positions and stuff. Not anymore I guess.
Oh well, I can't figure out why Kentucky keeps sending McConnell back to DC either so what do I know? Don't get me started on Kevin McCarthy or Devin Nunes, they're from California for heaven's sake.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - "A police commissioner in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, has resigned under fire from town officials and residents after he called President Barack Obama the “N” word and refused to apologize, the police department said on Monday.
Police Commissioner Robert Copeland was overheard using the racial slur at a restaurant in the town in March and later admitted it in an email to colleagues, saying: “For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”
Every fall my family an I travelled to what we thought was a beautiful place in New Hampshire, the town of Wolfeboro on the shores of a scenic lake. Romney has a summer home there. This guy is their police chief and apparently was popular. Now when we think of the place we think of the Deep South. Lewandowski should do well in the race.
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We also have a house in Wolfeboro. It’s a wonderful place to relax. I’m ashamed by my fellow citizen’s behavior. I’m glad he’s out.
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We will miss the economy that your dollars provide. On the other hand lake winnipesaukee is already too crowded as it is. And one percenters like Romney have driven up the price of real estate around the Lakes to unaffordable levels.
Alabamastan it isn't. But feel free to judge us from New Jersey. More room for us on the lake if you feel that way.
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@Babel
Funny, Democrats get accused off not "getting over" Trump's election.
As they continue to chew on old bones, like Hillary and Obama. I'm surprised they aren't still bashing Adlai Stevenson. Morons.
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We are getting bluer all the time. And some the “normal” conservatives up here can’t stand “he who shall not be named”. I say normal because they see him for what he is and understand that he has ruined their party.
Oh, there are still lots of his fans in the deep red parts of the state. He had a Huuuuuuuge rally last month in Manchester.
He will have supporters but our US senators and reps are all dems/women/and gay man. That says a lot.
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@CMG52
There are plenty of white people in NH. Like Iowa they are people who are Americans, not bigots, and they are far from being stupid. Americans would give you their last dime and the shirt off there back if need be.
I believe this fool will find a different type of reception by the voters of NH. Pride in America and their progressive state. Like the people of Iowa they do not suffer fools easily.
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@CMG52
"We are getting bluer all the time."
I expect that to continue as Massachusetts residents continue slowly migrating north. Over the past three decades, that movement has had a distinct effect upon the state's political makeup.
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This might be a good time to ask again why we allow this tiny, atypical state to always play a dominant role in choosing our President, along with little Iowa. Followed by ultra-conservative SC. With not a single major city among them, these states are far out of step with the nation at large. Yet by the time the rest of us vote, half the choices have already been made.
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Dear Mr. Lewandowski,
Please, please run for senate.
Signed,
The entire democratic party
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Go ahead, spend your money and let him run. We’ve had enough of all of you and one more thrown into the street won’t matter.
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As far as I am concerned, there is no "Republican Party" at this point. It is solely the party of Don Trump sycophants enabling and supporting one of the most corrupt liars in the country. Sad day indeed if New Hampshire elects Lewandowski.
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So much for Yankee ingenuity and "Live Free or Die". Considering northern Republicans, with the exception of the one in the White House, tend to be more towards the center, they, in New Hampshire, are willing to throw away all their ethics, morals and principles to stay in the good graces of southern Republicans and extreme right conservative politics.
New Hampshire has just joined, in lock step, places like Alabama and Mississippi.
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@Nick Metrowsky
Take it easy Nick. Our entire congressional delegation is Democrat as is half our state legislature. We have a few crazies but id guess there are more in Colorado Springs alone. No reason to write-off the whole state.
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As a Naval Officer serving in NH in the 1970s, the people with whom I interacted with were always open, friendly, down-to-earth, very hard working, and extremely patriotic to a democratic union.
By law I could not participate in their political discourse, but what I witnessed were interactions between folks, often with widely varying views, but always respectful of others’ opinions. Whether that sensibility and respectfulness still exist or not, I’m not certain.
But IF Mr. Lewandowski were to become “a shady U.S. Senator”(per LNF1), he would be nothing more than another Trump sycophant/acolyte. Have we not seen enough chaos, division and inability to pass meaningful legislation by current GOP representation in DC?
Lewandowski would have had no place representing NH then, nor I suspect now.
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The Trump campaign has gotten down to the real nitty gritty, insulting, lying and yelling at all those dangerous others. No policy ,no idea just anger and hate. Lets hope the folks in New Hampshire will see this and vote him way way out of the state.
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Hmm. Time to build a wall on the west bank of the Connecticut river? Nah. Our eastern neighbors will send this character to the scrap heap where he belongs. Psycho populism is a one trick pony and that trick has grown stale and boring.
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Like Trump, I think Lewandowski understands there is a lot of free publicity in flirting with running for public office.
But I'd be surprised if he pulls the trigger, and I think it'd be good news for democrats if he did.
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The Republican Party is riven by these nasty types since the Tea Party. Hope they defeat him and do not support Trump as a state.
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Citizens of New Hampshire, it's your choice. Under Trump, you're not living free, and you may die sooner than you think.
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Lewandowski is Trump appendage, just like Sarah Huckabee, Mike Pence and Barr. He’s a person of very limited mental capacity but excellent at propagating race hatred, bigotry, lies and propaganda - the standard demented Republican line.
How many thousands of times has he repeated Trump’s lies and distractions?! Even THINKING about him asa Senatorial (or any other) candidate in NH should be considered treasonous.
The good people of NH should have well realized by now the dangers of anything Trumpian, and Lewandowski is right up there with the worst of them. Come on you guys and gals, don’t be stupid - it demeans you.
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Sounds like white nationalism is coming to the northeast, supposedly a left coast. Didn't notice any racist comments by Lewandowski but he certainly is trying to whip up the populists against the supposedly corrupt Republican establishment elite who certainly would have a hard time being as corrupt as Trump. But maybe the Fox News saturated people in New Hampshire will fall for the scam which seems to be quite effective around the country.
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Hardly a surprise. After all, New Hampshire is one of the TOP FIVE states in fentanyl usage.
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I have no sympathy for Republicans shuddering.
You did nothing but preferred to be “re-elected” rather than save your only country, only planet, only foreign alliance.
The “hand basket” we are all in while descending to the fires of global warming (among other fires) is of your own weave.
Bad bad karma people.
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New Hampshire is trending blue. Trumps won with motivated voters in 2016. He hasn't added to that base and in 2020 the Democrats will be even more motivated. Wishful thinking on the part of the GOP.
Funny how because Trump almost won New Hampshire they think they have a shot but they dismiss the Democrats who did win New Hampshire and almost won Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. There will be o Trump coattails. Look at his unmovable numbers.
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It seems that Trump won because people were tired of the gridlock in Washington.
Trump was a “Hail Mary” pass that was a total failure.
He promised everything, but it quickly became apparent what a con man and liar he is.
People wanted great health care, secure jobs, fair taxation of the rich, infrastructure improvement. . .
But it was all a big con.
Most Americans are tired of the lies, the tweeting, the overall insanity that is Trump.
If only he had been serious about helping the country instead of just himself and his family.
It all sounded so good.
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@Grove
The odds of Trump's success were less than a lottery ticket. But we all know how Trump voters love lottery tickets and cigarettes.
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Trumpism is, first and foremost, brazen denial of undeniable facts, as with birtherism. The article’s examples aren’t that. Let’s not muddle the definition of beyond-tha-pale Trumpism by lumping with it more common politics.
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What the Times is calling "trumpism" already has a name
Fascism.
We had a war about it. The whole world was involved. Now Republicans have decided we took the wrong side.
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Not long ago i commented things have to get worse before they get better. Here is the tip of the “worse” iceberg. I just fear how big the base is.
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Trumpism... what is that?
It sounds like a news-speak euphemism for corruption and misogyny. I’m so tired of this. And I know I’m not the only one.
After the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi and the Trump regime’s response in defending MBS, I thought to myself, “Here, if ever, will be the turning point. Now, the news organizations and journalists who were hesitant to speak plainly and truthfully about Donald Trump will stand their ground.”
But that never happened. The US media is obsessed with finding new ways to avoid telling the truth according to the pure facts regarding Donald Trump. And it’s astounding to watch.
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Lewandowski is perfect.
In 2018 Putin's Puppet, Trump, said to voters; "vote as if I'm on the ballot" and got smacked. Add Lewandowski and Roy Moore and it's going to be even better for America.
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This is how vile the right has become. It's a cesspool of hatred, bigotry, racism and gas-lighting. The lack of decency found in people like Trump, Lewandowski, Moore and hundreds of other Republicans inside government who are looking to trash this country is sickening. We are beginning to look like a very wealthy version of Russia, where the top government officials want to silence any and all critics and oligarchs determine policy. Add a dash of the mob to all of this and you have the new American Republican party. Lee Atwater helped to set this machine in motion and now it's out of control. Who or what will stop it?
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@Magan
What do you mean "how vile the right has become"???
They've been that way all along -- it's just that now there's no way to escape it because they're so up in your face and unapologetic about all their hatred, bigotry and racism.
And this time, it's coming straight from the top.
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" ... [the Republicans have] gone all in for a president I find indecent, at times hateful and undeserving of the position that he has ... But [Corey Lewandowski is] pretty mainstream now because it’s a different party.” That says everything you need to know about the GOP. And yet they still call themselves "The Party Of Lincoln".
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Ahem, they also call themselves "Grand Old Party."
And so do you.
What's up with that?
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@Lorem Ipsum Good point. I use "GOP" because its easier to type than "Republicans". But I don't think the latter term is any more appropriate, given the definition of "Republic": "a state in which supreme power is held by the people ... " When Julius Caesar tried to dismantle the Roman Republic, it was handled on the floor of the Senate in pretty dramatic fashion. I don't see Mr. McConnell and his minions following suit with Mr. Trump's tyrannical ambitions.
If I called them what I'd like to, the Times would not post it.
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New Hampshire a beautiful state. I hope the good people there turn blue in 11/2020.
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This is a very positive development. New Hampshire Republicans have a chance here to fully support Trumpism, completing the transition to Trumpian ignorance, incompetence, and bullying.
A more reasonable Republican candidate like William O’Brien is worse for Democrats: in campaigning, he would avoid the thuggishness of a Lewandowski. If elected, however, he would undoubtedly support Trump's 100% of Trump's judicial nominations and legislative initiatives. In contrast, a Lewandowski candidacy would lay bare the existential threat to American ideals posed by Trumpism. That is exactly what's needed to mobilize Democrats, independents, and other NH citizens who haven't voted in years.
So go ahead, NH Republicans, please nominate Lewandowski.
And please, Mr. Lewandowski, don't hold back on the insults, the physical attacks on other people, and the outrageous and inane policy suggestions.
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@Lew FYI, calling William O'Brien "a more reasonable" candidate is laughable. He and Corey Lewandowski are two peas in a pod. Read about O'Brien's antics in the NH legislature 8-9 years ago.
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@Lew O’Brien is “reasonable”? Not the partisan hack we New Hampsherites know. He’s a not-very-bright, right-wing bully, whose own party removed him from a leadership position because they couldn’t stand him. There are a few reasonable Republicans left here in NH. Bill O'Brien isn’t one of them.
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"...Republican leaders here have made a tenuous peace with Mr. Trump’s divisive approach to politics, recognizing that he is the head of their party and a president running for re-election, some have recoiled at bringing Trumpism home in the form of Mr. Lewandowski."
I doubt that the Republican leaders in NH are capable of recoiling regarding anything Trump. Their willingness to support this man at any level reflects their willingness to sell their souls to the devil. They have made their choice. They have opened themselves and their state to Trump and those who emulate his "politics" and cannot shut that door.
They could, but they won't.
That would require real integrity and patriotism.
It would require selfless service to their constituents who deserve representatives who are committed to honoring their oath to the Constitution.
It would require honest and firm statements calling out the Trump admin and those who emulate his "leadership" practices that are the antitheses of Democracy, and civil discourse.
And yet, they have supporters...
The poison that is Trump has sickened and distorted the R's and too many of the people. They have soiled our Democracy. VOTE
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The idea that he is going to unseat Shaheen is absurd
Lewandowski has never run for any office - let alone statewide -
She has won four statewide races over the last two decades - she has never lost any election
there are folks in NH who have been voting for her since the early 90s when she was a state senator.
There is very little chance he could defeat her
She has years of good will on her side
and he has a lot of baggage of his own + he has trump around his neck
I bet JS is praying he runs against her
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As usual this hit piece says nothing about the issues, a strong economy due to the president's policies, pro life, immigration enforcement, strong defense, fair trade, conservative real judges... the present far left incumbent opposes all these issues... and should be shown the door.
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@Bummero You should actually learn something about the "far left incumbent" before you pretend to be citing facts. Ms. Shaheen serves on the Armed Services Committee and Foreign Relations Commitee. Along with Republicans Lankford and Tillis, she has authored bipartisan legislation in the 2020 Defense Authorization Act. Senator Shaheen voted for a bipartisan immigration reform bill making significant investments in border security and requiring employer use of e-verify. Fair Trade? You mean she may not support Trump's ruinous trade war? There are 0 bills proposed by this administration currently in Congress dealing with "fair trade".
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In the meantime, American taxpayers are forced to finance the transport of this one man circus and his three-ring family on Air Force One while he continues to divide the nation with his bigoted and obnoxious diatribes.
As though we haven't had enough of that coming out of the White House for the past two and a half years.
Corey Lewandowski is nothing more than a repeat offender.
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what about William Weld???
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Who will run his campaign at N.H.? Hope Hicks???
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Lewandowski is a horrible, horrible person. A thug and misogynist - I hope the voters of NH exhibit some common sense and reject this menace to democracy.
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So Lewandowski has an okay BA and MA, has never worked a day in his life except as a pol, has never served in the military, has a tendency to forget whether he’s got a loaded gun in his carryon when he gets on an airplane, got rich as a lobbyist because of his trump connections, generally acts like a bully, and now wants to be a Senator in a state he moved to about a year ago.
Okay, fine. Sounds great. It’s just that that sucking sound you hear is not the swamp draining.
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The people who oppose Donald Trump within his own party will go down in history for being among the most valiant politicians and citizens in an era of neofascism in this country. For those who don’t know their history, Donald Trump‘s behavior is a bad rerun of an old and extraordinarily unpleasant film that was made in the 30s and 40s in Germany, Italy, and Spain. Those who don’t know their history would do well to go back to school and understand the past so that they might have some notion of what is actually going on in the present.
Honesty has become a precious commodity in our time, and for those Republicans who are honest enough not to rationalize away Donald Trump‘s behavior and motives , they may indeed be the ones to save this country from four more years of unmitigated misery.
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Three years into an administration that only stands for chaos, self interest, xenophobia, and with nothing but contempt for most Americans and our allies, we now have Lewandowski repeating and reinforcing Trumpism, hoping to be elected to the Senate. Trumpism is a cancer that has already destroyed too much, certainly the Republican party that has been completely hollowed out and turned into zombies. Republicans have sold their souls to a man that doesn't care one iota about their future, or anyone else's future that isn't white, Christian, or rich. Vote every last one of them out of office, starting with Trump, they don't deserve any support.
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What’s happening in N.H. is a precursor to the official redefinition of the GOP post-2020 election. The party has drifted so far into the arms of nationalism and open racism that there’s no turning back. This transformation goes darker and darker.
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@the doctor
There’s a limited amount of resource to work with
Extremely limited
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The defining characteristic of the textbook ‘conservative Republican’ circa 2019: he(or she) is a rude, vulgar, loudmouthed, sadistic, cowardly jerk, the guy who leaves poisoned food out in his yard hoping to kill a neighbor’s pet; the boss who makes you start looking for another job so you won’t have to wake up dreading another miserable day at the office.
The question is, why are Republican voters buying it? Are they all jerks too?
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@chambolle the only Republicans left identifying as Republicans are all the jerks. The rest are known as "Never Trumpers" and, more commonly, "Independents".
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@Multimodalmama
Unfortunately, 90% of the Republican Party still supports Trump, so that doesn't leave many non-jerks.
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@McGloin and ... that's because they are a remnant population of dedicated swallowers of fascism.
The Walter Cronkite Republican observes the Republican Party is reaping what it has sown, they have no-one to blame but themselves.
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The bar is never too low it seems.
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Trump is trying to drain the swamp and the swamp has allot of snakes and gators. Many republicans are against Trump because he didn’t go through the process. He was promoted to the top spot without ever holding even a mid management position. I watched the Wisconsin Republican Party gang up on Eric Hovde in a senate election. Hovde was a hedge fund manager that never held office. In the primary the three top state republicans entered the race. Newman and Fitzgerald never had a chance but stayed in the race to take away votes from Hovde. Tommy Thompson narrowly won the primary. Only to lose to Tammy Baldwin.
I feel that the state Republican leaders would rather have a democrat that went through the system win then a Republican that didn’t pay the dues.
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@JimWhat a laugh Trump is the swamp. Fine let the clown run in NH here is something to chew on manufacturing contracted last month, stock market in a dive, house sales down, car sales down the recession is here and even if there is a deal with China which there won't be it will take years to reverse in the other direction. The Republicans pinned their wagon to a one trick failure and like Hoover in 1932 the whirlwind is coming. Rich for Lewandowski to attack someone for not going to Vietnam and then throws in the usual garbage about him being a bed wetter. What was Trump his hero a coward who can't even remember his medical problem, an eye doctor signed the letter. We can see the problem now mental illness. Let him run and guess what the majority in this country are tired and sick of four years of no real positive policies just teen agers called others names. What grownups, but then when you have no programs and gee, how about running up the deficit. This is a government that is corrupt, the vice president stays two days in a Trump hotel in Ireland no other places to stay. I guess Pence did not want to upset the boss who told him to stay there. As soon as Trump leaves office he will be meeting with the federal district attorney of the Southern District of New York and going to the same place that his friend Epstein ended up in. His President ran the country into the ground who ran up the massive deficit and debt. The guy a joke, let him run and get steamrollled. Jim Trautman
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@Jim
The Swamp is corruption of Our government by the global mega-rich (the real Deep State making decisions through giant dark money "donations.". Trump is of the Swamp and brought it out of the Deep and appointed Swamp monsters to head government agencies they oppose so they can destroy our government from the top down.
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Based in Trump’s monumental incompetence—his one saving grace, as if he were a quarter as capable as Obama the gods know what would be fouled up by now—I’d say anybody with a functioning brain would rather have a Democrat who’d worked their way up through the system.
Ah, there’s the problem...”worked.” Trump doesn’t.
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As long as they continue to support trump, they are part of the problem and are not seeking a solution. The answer is to not vote for any republican.
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Bullies are cowards...always, and without exception. It's genetic.
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To you and those who recommended your comment, bullies may certainly be cowards but it has nothing to do with genetics. It’s not like the color of your eyes. It’s an acquired behavior and is based on low self esteem. Bullies try to feel better and elevate their self esteem by going after those they see as vulnerable. If one stands up to them, then there’s no bullying. More important, understanding the problem is the only way to address it.
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If we haven't figured it out by now, there is no hope for us. 2020 is for all the marbles; we need to repudiate Trump and his ilk while we still have a chance to salvage some of what we used to have.
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Both parties deserve to end. At this point in history they are doing the opposite of what they publicly pretend. Your favorite politician is devoted to and represents the neo liberal status quo. They don't care what you think about trade, immigration, our latest military action, or anything else. As long as you can be fooled or coerced into going along without too much violence.
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Enough with the false equivalency. It’s absurd.
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@Brian
The Democratic Party needs to be taken over by the Left again so that it can actually oppose the Party of Trump instead of constantly surrendering to them.
If the Left doesn't take over the Democratic Party, Trump will win, and the Republicans will shred the Constitution, with the help of Chuck Schumer.
Trump's biggest weakness is his constant lying. Biden has a tenuous hold on the truth and even defended conflating different stories last week, (after swearing that it was true on "the Biden family"), at best a sign that his mind is getting too old.
If Biden wins the nomination, then his past lies, like plagiarism, will be hammered on by the right, which will claim that it cancels Trump's pathological lying.
You can't beat Trump with someone that helps corporations, lies, and touches people inappropriately.
We need the clearest contrast possible, not a morally ambiguous corporate establishment centrist that the Left will refuse to back.
Grow the base bigger than the Trump base to win.
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@Brian
Republican criminals promote false equivalency to fool the feeble minded and obscure their crimes
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Does anyone think that Lewandowski would run for the Senate if he didn't think he could win?
Is that screwball thinking on Lewandowski's part, or does he know something we don't about upcoming election interference plans by Republicans assisted by Russia?
Hmmm! Does anyone think all elections should include paper ballots to prevent interference from Russia or the Republican Party?
Probably not Russia or Republicans.
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(raises hand)
Most of New Hampshire is in the Boston media market, 9th largest in the United States. Running for office is a great way to build your brand because it guarantees that you will get on the teevee news.
@Lorem Ipsum Are you talking about building his brand by using Russian election interference to get elected, or to get a TV show on Fox News?
Either way folks, we need paper ballots for every local, state, and federal election.
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Wow. A marker to denote a spot where two crooks agreed to reform campaign finance and make it more corrupt. Thanks NH!
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One would think that the people from Trump's inner circle would be in prison not running for office.
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So.....Sununu supports trump, but is concerned a run by Lewandowski might harm trump's "brand." Lewandowski is foul mouthed, amoral, power-hungry, narcissistic, and an abuser of women: in other words, a perfect standard bearer for trump's "brand."
Logically, then, Sununu should welcome a run by Lewandowski. Right?
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Don’t tread on me. Don’t kick me in the teeth. Don’t throw me down the well like a bag of kittens. Don’t let Trump further infect beautiful New Hampshire. Get down to Lake Winnepsaukee and see if Sen. Romney (R, Utah and many other places) can help out.
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Message to GOP leaders - start opening your mouths!
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@JCAZ
90% off the GOP supports Trump. Every time they open their mouths they are repeating his latest lie.
The GOP opposes every part of the Constitution except the second amendment because they are arming themselves for a civil war, that their base has already begun.
The Republicans are attacking our Constitution and reject reason (logic, math, science...). You can't have a trained debate with those that reject reason and undermine the rules of debate and voting.
The Party of Trump is not "reasonable people with whom we happen to disagree," but hateful, greedy, violent, traitors.
It is not "grown up" to negotiate with liars.
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"GOP" leaders?
Here's the real message: They still own you.
Just. Call. Them. By. Their. Name.
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Trump has certainly become the Rorschach Test for the entire Republican Party. Now we will see what is really motivating all those so-called Rockefeller Republicans in New England and the rest of the country.
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A state with fewer than 1.5 million residents, of which a majority; but not the entirety of residents, appears to support Donald J. Trump and Trumpism. While one can argue that it is strange that after 2.5 years of Trumpism this tiny population is becoming more Trump-friendly; it is hardly representative of the nation.
When I learn that NY or CA are moving toward Trumpism, I will then begin to seriously worry about our nation. NH however, is not a bellwether anything. It is a small state in the northeastern part of the United States of America.
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As a former New Englander, let me share this take: there are basically two types of folks in New Hampshire: people who are there because that’s where their families have been since time immemorial and they relish that connection to the past - the more remote, the better. The other big segment of the population consists of people who move there in order to avoid paying taxes in adjacent states, aka money refugees who usually work In neighboring Taxachusetts and cackle at how they’re getting away with murder. Neither type wants to let go of a dime, so NH always ranks somewhere close to last in state aid to education, which is primarily funded by the monopoly the state has on liquor sales at its state package stores, as there is no income tax. Not surprisingly, NH is also a nationwide “leader” in drug addiction. It’s population is older than most. It’s a backwoods nirvana for cheapskates. A Trump type could be appealing to the over 70 crowd, and a big segment of younger voters is too woozy with anomie to get to the poles or busy overdosing. There is also Dartmouth but I doubt that community accounts for many votes.
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@Pottree Well, in 2016 Democrat Maggie Hassan defeated incumbent U.S. Senate Kelly Ayotte by 1,107 votes. Hassan's margin in Hanover -- where Dartmouth is located was 5,992 to 1,646. Next door in Lebanon (which is also dominated by Dartmouth) Hassan won 4,801 to 1,646. More deeply, what's called the "Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Region" is one of the main regions in New Hampshire.
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@Pottree Living in NH and working in MA is usually more expensive as you are hit with income tax in MA and higher property tax in NH (since we have no income tax).
Also we're consistently ranked among the best for public education.
You don't seem at all trustworthy.
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Every snowflake protests innocence in a avalanche.
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I would be afraid, very afraid for New Hampshire and the USA.
Trump and Trumpsters, like Lewandowski, still excite the media.
By comparison, Democrats, like Sen.Shaheen seem boring.
Democrats, tend to be policy wonks, and they lack media interest.
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I suggest that Shaheen and other Democrats focus in democracy.
They might use the "Democracy" song of Leonard Cohen (1992).
"Democracy is coming to the USA"
(Trump, and Trumpsters have a "demo-crazy" destruction focus)
Democrats:
"If you don't know where you are going,
any road will get you there." (Lewis Carroll)
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@Harry Pearle
I'm sorry, did you miss the 2018 elections?
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@Harry Pearle Yes, they excite the media but lately not in a positive way. That excitement you see is the real world, the anti-swamp voters, readying themselves to get the rails, the tar and the feathers ready to help them find their way back to their fetid and foul swamp.
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It's all about getting the attention, admiration, and free airtime from the national Television industry that loves crazy stuff to make money and ratings. It worked with Trump, their actor.
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As a collective group of citizens who happen to be gathered in a strategic political theater, I can imagine that the fine people of New Hampshire must be going bonkers right about now.
Where there's rabble, for certain a rouser follows. Silence is the best response to rabble rousers, ignore them. Make them pardon, step back, and slowly repeat their insults. For all to hear clearly. Uncivilized politicians do not represent a betterment for us. Vote thoughtfully.
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I favor what I call the Dig Dug strategy. (Yes, I'm old.) Engage the troll and keep him going until he blows himself up.
But this is the important part: Never engage the troll on his terms. Practice asymmetry.
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Why are the Republicans shuddering? They created this dysfunction. lewandowski, moore, huckabee-sanders...all members of the trump administration who now believe they are the only ones to lead the country. Republicans you enabled these people, why shudder when they are running to represent your party...This is who you have become.
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So, now Mr Trump's surrogate/enabler Lewandowski is trying to push what is left of the Republican Party to become in 2020 even more like Trump. Well, we already have a "Do Nothing" Party with Moscow Mitch helping to back up all the sewage that has inundated the Washington swamp. Why not go all out and bring all the rot and pollution into the 2020 election cycle and let's see just how well American democracy can tolerate the decay of the former G.O.P.
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The message is simple and inarguable—Trump and is following are the distilled essence of Republicanism.
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@Mike
Yep. They fake the shuddering. They created Trump, as Frankenstein created the monster.
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This is all part of the “Great Realignment.” The Republican Party is not going to be the far-right racist reactionary party. There is a group of people in the middle. You can roughly divide them into center-right and center-left. At the present time, center-right calls themselves independence in the center-left call themselves Democrats. Then there are the real progressives on the real left.
Eventually, we will have three real parties. Almost every developed democracy does at the present time. Several have five. Stay tuned. It’s going to be interesting. Wait for the “independents” to decide if they want to be Democrats or start a new party. My best bet is will have three. But if we only have two parties that the far-right Republican Party is doomed.
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@Stuart Phillips 90% of the republicans support trump. There is no middle there.
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@Stuart Phillips
A system with more than 2 parties would require ending the electoral college. Otherwise, whatever party controls the House will get to decide who the winner of an election will be; if no one candidate gets a winning number of EC votes (very likely with 3+ parties), then the House makes that decision. Guess how that will go?
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The fact that either Trump or one of his most devoted sycophants can still win a sit anywhere in the country fills me with HORROR.
It is even more puzzling that someone’s sit as decent and likable as sen. Shaheen can be in jeopardy in 2020.
God help us!
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Im not surprised at all. Spend more time in New England. It's exactly the place where racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism and xenophobia, run rampant just under the surface. I was born and raised in New England, my family has lived there since 1617. I know what white people say behind closed doors, whether it's Cambridge or Caribou.
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@Mack Well come back and spend some time in Manchester or Concord. Look at who the State elected in 2016 and 2018. There may be bigots and thugs here - viz. Lewandowski - but don't let whatever personal experience you had become the rationale for a blanket accusation. This State has consistently supported female candidates since 1996 and Jeannie's election as Governor. Give us candidates of color, we'll support them too.
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I'd like to see the NYT article which details what "Trumpism" actually is, if we're deciding to coin the word.
I have my own ideas about it representing certain things, but it would be nice to reach a consensus so that decades from now when we look back on this dark time we can clearly point to the ideology those of us with a conscious firmly rejected.
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If Trump is surging in New Hampshire it is because of the state of the Union and the world being sound and the credibility of the Democratic party has fizzled away. As more and more Americans follow the trend in New Hampshire it will become apparent the the reelection of Trump is more than likely to happen enabled by the democratic opposition that has failed to fire up the independents due to their lack luster performance.
New Hampshire will also be positive to US troop withdrawal from America's longest war in Afghanistan.
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@Girish Kotwal Market is down another 320 points today. Taliban are already attacking cities. ISIS is rising again. The environment is being totally destroyed. Hurricanes are stronger than ever. We are experiencing the hottest weather in recorded history and tornadoes and huge thunder storms are more frequent than ever. None of our allies trust us because trump lies about everything and doesn't honor agreements. If New Hampshire likes that, we are in serious trouble.
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@Bill from Madison, Ct. How is Trump responsible for hurricanes and Tornadoes? Being un reasonable in the blame game will ensure A Trump victory. Recently I met a couple from your state of CT who I assumed would be against Trump and I was surprised they were big time Trump supporters. So there is a silent majority that will swing traditional blue states to Trump states and give him the popular vote too. You are right those with an acute case of Trump derangement syndrome are in very serious trouble of paranoia and hoping for the worse so that Trump would not win. He would if the democrats mange to nominate none of the existing candidates for the nomination but instead nominate someone totally new and dynamic who has real solutions to the multiple problems facing our country.
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@Girish Kotwal He is cutting environmental protections and is increasing the amount of carbon dioxide and methane in the air. Now if you know anything about science, you can figure it out from there. Or maybe you can't.
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Who are they kidding? Whether it's Alabama or New Hampshire, Republicans have ridden the coattails of racism, homophobia, and xenophobia. New England doesn't get a pass becuase they fought on the side of the Union in the Civil War.
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Born and raised in southern New Hampshire, I was the liberal black sheep in a family of traditional NH Republicans. The libertarian aspect of their politics were the places were we could find (occasionally) some agreement. It is disheartening to watch the party's acceptance of the current occupant of the White House and his sycophants. I honestly thought they were more thoughtful than that.
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Sending them my thoughts and prayers.
You OWN your Frankenstein.
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They HAD to "drain the swamp" so they could set the bar this low.
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Lewandowski and Trump--turning the GOP from "rock-ribbed" into trash.
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@Carl Ian Schwartz "Turned". The action is complete.
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If the state of New Hampshire wants to promote hate and fear then yes they should follow along with Trump.
However I'm hoping that they will show the rest of the country that there is an adult in the room.
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Perhaps, but the Roundup of the next election should take care of it.
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This article describes current "centrist" Republican elected officials from New Hampshire as having made a "tenuous peace" with Trump.
What that means, in reality, is that they are craven cowards who know how inappropriate Trump is to the presidency, and who recognize Trump's fire hose of egregious misconduct for what it is, but refuse to do anything significant to help to restore dignity to the executive branch and honor to the United States.
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@Scott Rose : I'd say you are correct in your assessment of spineless republican leadership. But to give them their due (not much), the reason they kowtow to the horror that is 'resident 'rump is he gets the votes! They have a reasonable fear of losing their job if they speak out. The problem is the electorate itself, 'rump is merely the huckster who saw an opportunity and grabbed it. The more important question that needs answering, in my mind, is why are so many people infatuated with a monstrous clown?
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@Scott Rose
The GOP feigns shock and horror now. They are cowardly.
For thirty years their party has pushed fear and hate.
They made Trump inevitable.
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@Scott Rose Trump would have you believe he carried NH in 2016 except for the (imaginary) busloads of voters who crossed into NH from across the border.
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The Trump Lewandowski advocates and perps of corruption and greed are the sweeping change that Americans confront daily. Opposing forces like Elizabeth Warren and Joe Sestak https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/us/joe-sestak-2020-candidates.html?searchResultPosition=4
don't seem to gain the news as readily. Does the close coverage of corruption enhance the appeal of that corruption?
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"one of the few states where his party has a chance to pick up a seat in 2020."
really? says who?
Shaheen has won four state wide races
She hasn't lost once -
Widely admired
Dems won big in NH in the last election -
what makes you think she is all that vulnerable?
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A foul-mouthed egotist.
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Maybe we need some real NH Republicans, and not RINOs like the David Souter to which America was subject for two decades.
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@JOHN I'll leave you to define "real Republicans" in your own state, thanks.
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@tomc I'll admit NJ Republicans are no great crop. Most of them have chosen consistently to lose rather than nominate real conservatives.
I hope NH stamps out the hate messages from Trump & Lewandowski! Hate means many can't "live free" !
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@Granny
Can anyone?
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The Republicans are finally at the edge of being able to drown our government in the bathtub. Woe to us all if they do manage it. We and generations for decades will suffer the consequences, maybe even forever.
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But for Trump, Lewandoski would be nothing more than a shady used car salesman. Thanks to Trump, he can become nothing more than a shady U.S. senator.
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Republicans can dislike liberals, progressives, and Democrats all they want, but if they tolerate Trump, Lewandowski, and their ilk; and even worse, if Trump, Lewandowski and their ilk are the best candidates Republicans can find to represent there values, it says volumes about what kind of people they really are. When someone chooses to take that path, there is no longer anywhere to hide. By their choices they have proved who they are.
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Party hack or trump-lite. Which would you pick given the toxicity of Trump and his actions that have further deepened the political divide of this country.
Yes, many admonish me and tell me Obama divided us politically. And I will respond, no, the racists divided us racially and Trump, along with Lewandowski, took advantage of that racism.
We have seen the results of what trumpism brings to the country-racism, bigotry, hate, violence-and I believe our country is better than that.
Mini-Trump should be quickly rejected and ejected by the people of NH and sent back to the fetid and foul swamp from where he emerged.
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A Trump look-alike in politics. He hopes New Hampshire will be the campfire for his Live unfree and die lying.
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When will America have enough of the ugly? When will the people take a good hard look at their paychecks and opportunities and realize the GOP deeply dislikes the regular Joe? The entire trump con is deflecting their own behavior and accusing others of the greed, lying and corruption that is the trump brand. WAKE UP! Lewandowski is no different. A bully selling hate.
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@Lulu roche What concern me is the number of people who either like the hate or are fine with ignoring it just to keep the GOP in power and advance their interests (business, Pro-Life, guns).
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In earlier Press reports, the first politician Lewandowski worked for went to prison and Senator Wannabe was stopped from bringing a weapon to him in that same prison. He’s only worked for worse politicians since.
Aren’t there enough unqualified, inexperienced mercenaries in office already, serving themselves instead of the nation?
When the Godless Obfuscation Party let Trump in the door, you never know who else will wander in. He’s just another cowardly bully and instant expert to stir the pot and expand the Swamp.
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Very heartening to read about Trumpism taking root in New Hampshire. I support the President. I support Trump. American first, not last as before. MAGA! Thank you.
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@Southern Boy Your "CSA" reveals much about your comment, none good, and undermines your "MAGA" pronouncement.
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We know you have doubts about Trump.
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I was appalled at the state of New Hampshire schooling 15 years ago. It got worse?
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@John It was always a Republican State. When it comes to education the Republicans have that right after, tax breaks for the wealthy, selling the wilderness, keeping the social order in tact, then we can teach them to read
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The US election and government are truly a reality TV show. Everyday is a new episode. Unbelievable.
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@Agostini Writers and executive producers would pay well for this type of show.
Corey Lewandowski likes cash, the limelight and the sound of his own voice. I doubt he would enter the race as it would open him up to scrutiny. And, seriously? He raised the issue of military deferments ?? His hero had, I believe, four very sketchy ones.
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And what military service can Mr. Lewandowski boast? We do know that he once got caught sneaking a loaded handgun into the Longworth House Office Building. But though that might have reflected some misguided macho swagger on his part, it hardly constitutes the kind of bravery evinced by his peers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also, I recall something about “bone spurs” and Vietnam in association with his former boss and mentor. Yes, real war heroes both.
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@Dennis Smith:Anytime I read criticisms of those who allegedly avoided military service, I ask myself: "Who is the source?Is the person making that cheap shot a veteran himself, was he conscripted to serve in VN when Gen. Hersey was head of Selective Service, or was he among the first to volunteer for combat in Iraq or Afghanistan?"ABH interviewed over a hundred activists for the OAS which sought to defend French culture in Algeria(1961-1962, some of whom I spoke with while they were still "en cavale," inter alios ex Legionnaires or veterans of light infantry regiments(1er RPC)and in course of extensive interviews NOT ONE ever criticized their compatriots who had refused to serve in the "contingent" which Guy Mollet, Mendes France and other p,m.'s sent to the "provinces d'outre mer"to defend French sovereignty against the FLN mujahideen. It just isn't done!Combat veterans, whatever the cause or country they r defending,seldom if ever do that. If u r willing to take cheap shots, 1 has the right to ask what ur military past is, "n'est ce pas?"
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@Alexander Harrison As a veteran of Vietnam, I have mixed feelings about Trump avoiding military service. I think avoiding the draft at that time was a rational -- and decent -- decision. The problem I have with Trump is that he represents the ease with which richer Americans avoided the draft -- no hiding in Canada for these guys.
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@Alexander Harrison Read the article: I was responding to Lewandowski’s cheap shot against just the sort of person you describe. As for myself, I was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1972, toward the end of the Vietnam War, and served my term honorably. (Though not as a combatant, as the U.S. had ended its ground combat operations by then.) Any other “assumptions” I can clear up for you?
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Of course he’ll run. Anyone with an ego like his will always put self over family. New England certainly has its fair share of uneducated racists like the rest of the country, but there still remains a decency firewall that I don’t believe a loser like Lewindowsky can break. If anything he further enflame an already boiling Democratic base. I say run Cory, run!
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@Dan Your comment, Dan, strikes me as absolutely spot-on. Perhaps 50 years ago, as the anointed candidate of the Manchester Union-Leader, Lewindowsky might have been favored, but NH is much more diverse and Democratic after decades of demographic change. If he runs, he may or may not win the GOP primary but this is for sure: he'll get blown out in the general election.
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Here in MN before Trump, Republicans and Democrats differed on a lot of issues, but there was mutual respect. The Republicans seemed to focus more on rural issues and Democrats focused more on urban issues. Those days are gone. From the moment Trump’s Star ascended state Republicans turned ugly. Maybe that ugliness was always there, though. I don’t know. Now Republicans seem to revel in being as repulsive as possible.
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@D Jones Trump enabled many to reveal their true selves. And there are no consequences save for the ballot box.
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@D Jones. There is an article today in the NYT today describing some of that ugliness taking place in Minnesota at the state fair. A shooting, fist fights, a car crash with people fighting and kicking. In Minnesota!
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@D Jones
The ugliness was always there, Trump just voiced what it was and the minions followed
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In 2017, Trump called New Hampshire "a drug infested den."
In 2020 the good, fine, hard-working voters in New Hampshire will have their say.
Have at it, Mr Lewandowski.
This isn't West Virginia or Kentucky where you could hood wink folk with empty promises and false hope.
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@Howard Levine, "We abide no such wickedness here," said Young Goodman Brown. "Actually, I have a very wide acquaintance here in New England," said the traveler (the Devil). In Hawthorne's tale, the illusion that geography is virtue is dispelled. I hope yours is not, friend.
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Trump and republicans have exploited Americans resentful to paying any taxes to drain our country into wealthy pockets.
Our personal greed, selfishness and fear of others has destroyed our ability to govern and care for all citizens.
We don’t need an enemy we are are destroying our country by voting our rights and services away.
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@Deirdre
As Pogo so astutely observed back in the 50's, "We have met the enemy and he is us.'
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As a resident of the northern NH county that voted twice for Obama and then for Trump, thankfully we reverted to our true form in 2018--and with a majority vote for Kuster(D), who won the state by 13%. In the southern part of the state, we elected our first openly gay candidate--by 8%. This is the greatest Democratic victory in many years--and can be laid directly at the feet of Trump.
Democrats also took both houses of the legislature and the Executive Council. Sununu was the only Republican for state-wide or Federal office who won. By pushing away the moderates and more traditional conservative Rs, Trump has helped destroy the Republican Party in NH.
Occasionally I run into the ex-Sheriff/senior state official who served three two year terms as Chair of the NH GOP and his wife, also a life-long R. They despise Trump for his crudity. They also can't ignore his vicious ignorant racism and sexism, both of which they find divisive. I can't imagine them or people like them supporting a loud-mouthed sexist like Lewandowski.
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@BSargent
Please explain how you went from voting twice for Obama, then for Trump and then, I assume from what you said, back to the Democratic Party in the midterms.
I am truly curious.
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@Eddie p
I can't speak for BSargent but I suspect a lot of folks who voted for Obama then voted for Trump because they could not stomach Hillary in 2016. For good reason, I might add.
The Democrats won't make a comparable error in 2020. Lewandoski and Trump will both lose in NH.
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@eddie p: the county and not Sargent voted vor Obama and then Trump.
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The politicians have poisoned the well and the voters have lost their bearings. New Hampshire has enough vindictive conservative voters to elect anyone the Republicans put up just to keep a Democrat out of office. Anyone at all.
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@Michael Lived in Bartlett, NH for 13 years. A few moments reading “The Conway Daily Sun” editorials and Letters To The Editor help illustrate the mindset of that state.
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New Hampshire Republicans needn't worry running Lewandowski for senate will serve to get Democrats energized for 2020, but only because in New Hampshire and right across America Democrats are already just about jumping out of their skin over the prospect of finally seeing the end of Trump.
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"In a manner resembling an out of contol garden hose." Really? For Bernie it would be "wide-ranging."
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I hope more people in the Granite State are like my mother: an 89-year-old New Hampshire republican who did not vote for Trump and despairs at the prospect of him winning again.
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Democrats in NH and the rest of the country have the key re Trump and his Ilk like this guy in NH.
If they nominate identity obsessed, social engineering candidates on social issues and Neo con on other issues like Hillary, they are giving Trump and his ilk a second life like they did in 2016.
If they nominate moderate progressives that give answers to the issues that Trump demagogued on trade, war, Wall Street, immigration etc., they will relegate Trump and his ilk to the trash heap of history.
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@Paul amen brother
Stick with kitchen table politics and door to door campaigning
Work for local candidates as they will drive turnout
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@Paul
There is no such thing as a 'moderate' progressive.
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@Cathy Sure there are. Millions of them. Myself included. This is what is as rare as a unicorn: "traditional, rational conservatives "
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"Mr. Lewandowski, who has become rich from his consulting work thanks to his relationship with Mr. Trump, "
You ever wonder why Republicans have no problem with the swamp that Trump lives in? Because swamp to normal people means politicians and lobbyists who get rich off the public teat.
To a Trump Republican, the swamp is something very different - it's composed of feminists, scientists, LGBTQ, brown and black people, gay people, environmentalists.... That's why these thugs continue to gain support.
You know who created this nightmare? Moderate Republicans looking the other way so they could get a tax cut.
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@Al. Yea, some tax cut...and for most will be used up on extra money they will be paying due to tariffs...but they wont connect the dots. Sad....biggly.
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@Al
Yes, moderate Republicans for one.
For two, white evangelical Christians and orthodox Catholics of the Federalist Society type, who looked the other way so they could get the federal judiciary they wanted to turn liberty into "religious liberty."
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@Al
And so they can outlaw birth control and abortion
And the guns
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Billerica, Massachusetts gift to the world is Tom Glavine. Chris Sununu knows the Cory Carpetbagger would be a gift to New Hampshire Democrats.
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Why are GOP leaders pretending to shudder?
It is their party—with thirty years worth of sermons of hate and fear—that made Trump inevitable. Their sermons worked. The GOP led us to this place. That they should now feign abhorrence is shameful and cowardly. It’s as though Dr. Frankenstein, having seen the destruction created by his monster, pretends both innocence and disgust.
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@Franco51,
What a great comment, thank you.
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Having lived in New Hampshire and gasp! voted Republican in that state on occasion. To hear that R's have slid this far to contaminate New Hampshire... It makes you wonder if we will survive this polarization... Maybe some sane moderates will start their own party...
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This is just bluster.
NH voters would never tolerate Lewandowski in a general election. NH has gone from red to purple to mostly blue in the last 20 years. The conservative north has lost population and the independent south has grown.
And there are more women than men in the N.H. electorate. For a brief moment a few years ago, NH had a female governor, two female senators and both congressional seats were held by women.
Lewandowski does not represent NH values and he knows it. And he likes his shadowy consulting cash.
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@Cousy
Oh I hope you are right.
I was born and raised in NH.
None of us could believe it when a relative, who has her hand on the pulse of workaday Yankees, warned us that they would vote Trump. We scoffed.
I think the people of NH could, and often believe, do anything. Racist fear mongering works well there.
I hope and pray my people see through it this time.
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Before we put too much faith and hope in women, let’s not forget that Trump won the white vote any way you slice it. He even won college educated white women. I put my faith and hope in people who see America as a community made up of all the people living here. People with some smidgen of empathy and decency. And that has nothing to do with gender or sexual orientation. Those women who won office in NH? I’ll bet some women didn’t vote for them and some men did.
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@Robert
The women-are-better trope used to bother me, but seriously could a woman ever be as bad as Donald Trump?
Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Ivanka Trump... no, I can’t see any woman reaching Donald’s depths of despicableness.
Also, when I voted there was nowhere on my ballot to indicate my gender, race, or highest level of education completed.
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I don't think New Hampshire goes for out-of-control garden hoses, much less bag men and mini-me buffoon-wannabes. Lot of water gone under that bridge since 2016 and New England is hardly the right setting for a beer-hall putsch in 2020.
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I hope the good people of New Hamshire keep their wits about them and reject trumpism and the cruel bullying that is its hallmark. Lewandowski attacks everyone's character and tries to lower everyone and everything to trumpian standards. He makes carpetbaggers look good.
Resist the hate and fear mongering.
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Stop calling it Trumpism. It's mainstream Republican policy with a slightly more in-your-face messenger.
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Bingo. "Moderate" vile-GOPers exist only to give the crazier ones, and their bad policies and bad faith, a foothold.
The only thing to negotiate with them is their retirement, at the ballot.
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@Vote with your pocketbook - Yes. Well said. Trumpism is the obvious and inevitable product of the last 40 years of right wing lunacy. Trump has simply replaced the Goldwater/Nixon/Reagan/Bush dog whistle for a bullhorn.
I'm not sure what all the pearl-clutching among "normal" Republicans is about. After all, a steady 80-90% of self-described Republicans support Trump. Whatever they're saying their party was in the past, he's what their party is now.
Here's to hoping it will be their doom.
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As a NH resident I don't think Trump can be anymore entrenched. With the rise of the Tea Party 10 or so years ago, the legislature has cut back on education funding, and school districts are scrambling to make up shortfalls. The ignorance of NH continues on as it cares about nothing but maintaining its income and sales tax free status. The legislature approved keno to fund all day kindergarten just last year. It's a Trumpian utopia.
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When spouse and I took a trip to New Hampshire in 2016 and everywhere saw red Donald Trump signs as big as the decrepit barn walls they were nailed to and little blue Hillary Clinton post cards discreetly displayed in farmhouse windows in the towns, it seemed plain to me that even if Mrs. Clinton squeaked through in New Hampshire, Trump would win the country.
Must be something mighty attractive about a fat, bitter, foul-mouthed bankrupt, but I can't see what.
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@B.
HRC managed to lose to this chump because of her hubris in ignoring the rust belt and insulting working people.
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@Beachi
But isn't a trumpian Utopia a bankrupt utopia?
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I have cousins in northern NH, they firmly believe Trump brings them prosperity. Outside of seasonal vacation-oriented industries (running campgrounds, vacation home real estate, ski resorts, rental property upkeep, minor amusement parks, outdoor adventures), there isn’t a ton going on that doesn’t depend on outsiders for money.
Trumpism works well up there, unfortunately.
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@historyRepeated
But northern NH represents a declining share of the electorate in the Granite state. The southern region is growing and is more independent and democratic.
The Democrats have not bothered much to go to northern NH this summer. They have stayed in Manchester, Concord, Nashua, Keene and Hanover.
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@Cousy
Southern New Hampshire is 'growing' with disgruntled Massachusetts folk....maybe they've had enough of Warren-Progressivism?!
@Cousy
Liz Warren was at a Franconia a few weeks ago. Perhaps that’s the exception to the rule.
Living just across the river from Hanover, it’s nice to be able to catch some of these events. Saw Joe Biden one day, Mayor Pete the next.
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Despite differences NH politicians have worked hard to exhibit bipartisanship to get things accomplished. NH residents, in large appreciate when discussions remain civil and reasoned. That would end with Lewandowski. He is rude and a bully. To lose a senior senator for that man would be major error and I hope my fellow citizens see this.
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As someone born in Vt and raised in her neighboring state of Vermont, in a Republican family, I find this evolution of the current Republican party abhorrent to the very principles they espouse. I left the party long ago, because my values had changed. My father at 80 also left the party as he could no longer support the party he no longer recognized. I pray Republicans see better in themselves, than who may nominate a man who appears to do nothing but throw barbs, insults and unfounded accusations at any possible opponent, as does his former boss, Trump. Save the Republican Party, not trash it forever if this is what you’re becoming.
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@Suryasmiles - I, too, quit the (R)s (in '84 after (R)eagan's first term) when I saw them for what they were/are - morally bankrupt, IMO.
It would be interesting to understand your perception of what changed with the (R)s that made them unpalatable to you and your Dad. (R)eagan's policies and prejudices were pretty much the same as GoodBrain's, just hidden in false amiability. When did you leave? Why? Sincerely asked questions here, BTW.
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As if we needed more evidence that New Hampshire (and Iowa) are poor representations of modern America. Let them vote for Lewandowski and Steve King, but they don’t deserve all this presidential election attention.
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@Brad
Absolutely.
If you live in a major city you will never meet a national candidate.
But patronize a québécois restaurant in Manchester and you’ll meet them a couple of times a week.
How is this “representative government”?
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@Anonymously
Totally agree.
Or even if you do live in a major city but in a late-primary state, or a state that is considered reliably “blue” or “red”—then democracy really is a spectator sport at the level of choosing a presidential nominee.
Here in NM I had to hold my nose and vote for Hillary. I would be so excited to vote for Andrew Yang. But I fear I will be holding my nose and voting for some other out of touch old person instead.
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@Anonymously
Right! And don't get me started on how a single presidential vote in Wyoming is many times more powerful than an individual vote in California.
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If the U.S. continues to elect people like these, then we deserve the end of our republic that will doubtless come quickly.
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