{"id":1634594,"date":"2022-09-06T18:19:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1634594"},"modified":"2022-09-06T18:20:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T22:20:39","slug":"granite-state-voters-set-to-chisel-down-primary-field-for-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/granite-state-voters-set-to-chisel-down-primary-field-for-us-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Granite State Voters Set To Chisel Down Primary Field for US Senate"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fgranite-state-voters-set-to-chisel-down-primary-field-for-us-senate%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=1634594&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--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-new-hampshire\">New Hampshire<\/a> voters will chisel down the field of 11 Republican primary candidates on Sept. 13 in one of the country\u2019s most consequential U.S. Senate races.<\/p>\n<p>The race\u2019s outcome could affect the balance of power in the Senate, either handing it back to Republicans, or solidifying Democrat control.<\/p>\n<p>The top finisher in New Hampshire\u2019s GOP primary will advance to face the winner of the state\u2019s Democratic primary. That race pits first-term incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan against two challengers from her party.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan, a former governor of New Hampshire, is expected to move forward. And she holds a slight edge in the fall, say political forecasters who weigh in on races around the country. But pundits often use the term \u201cvulnerable\u201d when describing Hassan\u2019s hold on her Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/04\/22\/Maggie-Hassan-GettyImages-1231491979-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) speaks at a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs\/Rules and Administration Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 3, 2021. (Shawn Thew\/Pool via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Officially, the race is considered competitive, forecasters agree. That\u2019s why everyone is watching.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Senate currently is split 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, with Vice President Kamala Harris (D) casting any tie-breaking votes.<\/p>\n<p>Until recently, the country\u2019s leading prognosticators had been predicting Republicans would pick up 1-3 seats in the Senate, retaking control. Now, they say, one party is likely to have a net gain of one seat, but it\u2019s not clear which is favored.<\/p>\n<p>Former president Donald Trump has stayed oddly quiet on his pick in the New Hampshire Republican primary field. Meanwhile, money for advertising has poured in from political action committees (PACs) controlled by Senate Republicans and Senate Democrats in the hopes of influencing the race.<\/p>\n<p>Sparking the most spending is nursery owner Chuck Morse, a Republican who\u2019s served for eight years as the state\u2019s senate president, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire voters will chisel down the field of 11 Republican primary candidates on Sept. 13 in one of the country\u2019s most consequential U.S. Senate races. The race\u2019s outcome could affect the balance of power in the Senate, either handing it back to Republicans, or solidifying Democrat control. The top finisher in New Hampshire\u2019s GOP [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}