{"id":1601805,"date":"2022-08-11T17:37:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601805"},"modified":"2022-08-11T17:37:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T21:37:11","slug":"new-hampshire-dems-ad-portrays-left-wing-lawyer-as-blue-collar-mechanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-hampshire-dems-ad-portrays-left-wing-lawyer-as-blue-collar-mechanic\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire Dem\u2019s Ad Portrays Left-Wing Lawyer as Blue-Collar Mechanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-hampshire-dems-ad-portrays-left-wing-lawyer-as-blue-collar-mechanic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601805&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Rep. Chris Pappas appears in auto repair shop with Alan Raff, chairman of Manchester Democrats<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tAttorney Alan Raff and Rep. Chris Pappas (D., N.H.) \/ YouTube\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> \u2022 August 11, 2022 5:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The blue-collar mechanic in a New Hampshire Democrat&#8217;s latest campaign ad is actually a lawyer and local Democratic Party chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The ad, which Rep. Chris Pappas&#8217;s (D., N.H.) campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CCSrZOrMTaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a> Tuesday, shows the Democrat talking to a mechanic at a repair shop\u2014but the &#8220;mechanic,&#8221; according to the <em>New Hampshire Journal<\/em>, is an attorney at a Concord law office and the chairman of the Manchester Democrats. The attorney, Alan Raff, has also served as president of the Manchester Young Democrats and worked as a Democratic staffer in the state Senate and for U.S. senator Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Running a small business is hard work,&#8221; narrates Pappas, whose family founded the popular Puritan Backroom restaurant in Manchester in 1917, over a clip of Raff lifting a garage door at an auto repair shop. &#8220;There are early mornings and late nights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire GOP spokesman Andrew Mahaleris said Pappas, whose net worth is $5 million, is out of touch with the working class.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Born in the lap of luxury to wealthy parents, Chris Pappas has never worked a day in his life and doesn&#8217;t understand the struggle of working-class Granite Staters,&#8221; Mahaleris told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;His new ad is just another ploy by an out-of-touch Democrat elitist trying to fool voters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pappas&#8217;s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman is just the latest Democrat to face accusations of inauthenticity while attempting to appeal to working-class voters. Sen. Michael Bennet (D., Colo.) <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/colorado-dem-obtains-24-hour-fishing-license-to-shoot-campaign-ad\/\">obtained<\/a> a one-day fishing license so that the multimillionaire could appear as a fly fisherman in his latest campaign ad, <em>Axios<\/em> reported last week.<\/p>\n<p>Pappas says in his ad that he is &#8220;standing up to [his] own party&#8221; on the issue of stock trading for elected officials. The New Hampshire Democrat, however, has voted with President Joe Biden 100 percent of the time. Only one-fifth of New Hampshire voters want Biden to run for reelection in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.unh.edu\/survey_center_polls\/700\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a>\u00a0to a University of New Hampshire poll released last month.<\/p>\n<p>Elected to Congress in 2018, Pappas won his 2020 reelection bid by 5 points. His seat is labeled a tossup this year by the\u00a0<em>Cook Political Report<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Rep. Chris Pappas appears in auto repair shop with Alan Raff, chairman of Manchester Democrats  Attorney Alan Raff and Rep. 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