{"id":1680352,"date":"2022-10-09T08:53:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680352"},"modified":"2022-10-09T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:53:08","slug":"new-hampshire-sen-hassan-backs-out-of-new-hampshire-debate-with-republican-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-hampshire-sen-hassan-backs-out-of-new-hampshire-debate-with-republican-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire Sen. Hassan Backs Out of New Hampshire Debate With Republican Challenger"},"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\">26<\/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-sen-hassan-backs-out-of-new-hampshire-debate-with-republican-challenger%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=1680352&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>Veteran politician U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) has backed out of a scheduled debate with her Republican challenger and political newcomer Don Bolduc.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Hunt, president of the Nashua Chamber of Commerce, told The Epoch Times that Hassan has asked to appear separately on stage for the Oct. 12 debate.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt, who would only communicate with The Epoch Times by email about the change, would not comment further, only saying that Hassan would appear first, followed by Bolduc.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt was quoted by the NH Journal as saying that the Hassan campaign contacted her on Thursday indicating that the U.S. senator would only participate if it were \u201ca stand-alone forum, not a debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kate Constantini, a com strategist for Bolduc, told The Epoch Times, that Hassan has also insisted that Bolduc not be in the present when she speaks. \u201cHe can\u2019t even be in the audience,\u201d said Constantini, \u201che has to stay in the green room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hassan campaign did not respond to inquiries by The Epoch Times about the cancellation and Hassan has released no statement about it.<\/p>\n<p>The debate is billed as a luncheon event and has been listed for weeks on the chamber\u2019s calendar. It is part of its candidate series, which includes a scheduled debate on Oct. 18 between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-new-hampshire\">New Hampshire<\/a> Gov. Sununu and his Democrat challenger Tom Sherman and an Oct. 25 debate between Congressman Chris Pappas and his Republican challenger Karoline Leavitt.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4616491\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/22\/Bolduc-1200x801.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4616491\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/22\/Bolduc-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Retired Army Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc is a Republican candidate running for the New Hampshire Senate seat held by Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan. (Courtesy of Bolduc\u2019s campaign)<\/figure>\n<p>The Nashua Chamber of Commerce represents businesses in the second-biggest city north of Boston. Nashua is also the seat of New Hampshire\u2019s most populated county.<\/p>\n<p>Constantini pointed out that so far Hassan hasn\u2019t accepted any of Bolduc\u2019s repeated invitations to debate him. She also pointed out that Hassan hasn\u2019t appeared in any public forum to discuss her candidacy while Bolduc has appeared, according to Constantini, in 34 town hall meetings and other public appearances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear she doesn\u2019t want to be held accountable to voters,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h2>Out of the Public Eye<\/h2>\n<p>Three recent polls have Hassan in a three to eight percent lead over Bolduc. However, Hassan\u2019s own campaign manager Aaron Jacobs admitted in a recent internal memo that polls are \u201csugar-coated\u201d in favor of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan has remained largely out of the public eye, focusing her campaign mostly on legislation she has sponsored or supported including a bill she introduced on Oct. 5 that would provide government-funded legal services to families with a disabled child.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan herself has a son with cerebral palsy. In her 2016 bid, Hassan said her son Ben, who is also nonverbal and wheelchair confined, was the entire reason she decided to become involved in politics.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan has also introduced a number of pro-Veteran bills\u2014especially lately. Call it good timing given Bolduc\u2019s highly-touted platform as a retired Army brigadier general with a lengthy military career, but Hassan has landed support from veterans including a Bronze Star Army veteran who appears in a new campaign ad for Hassan, whose father was also a Bronze star recipient.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bolduc continues to score major support from major Republicans, including Mitch McConnell whose super PAC pledged $23 million in advertising dollars in an effort to ensure a shoo-in for Bolduc.<\/p>\n<p>However, he has ruffled some feathers with his staunchly conservative voter base in New Hampshire when he waffled on his once-firm position that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the Republican primary, Bolduc appeared on FOX TV and completely flipped on the issue calling Biden a \u201clegitimate president\u201d and saying he wanted to be \u201cdefinitive on this\u201d and that he had \u201ccome to the conclusion\u201d that the election was not stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the primaries, Bolduc touted a letter he signed with some 120 other generals and admirals, declaring that Trump won the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDamn it, I stand by my oath, I\u2019m not switching horses, baby,\u201d said Bolduc in August to a cheering crowd at a public debate hosted by the Government Integrity Project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-alice-giordano\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/default-user.png\" alt=\"Alice Giordano\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alice Giordano is a former news correspondent for The Boston Globe, Associated Press, and New England bureau of The New York Times.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran politician U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) has backed out of a scheduled debate with her Republican challenger and political newcomer Don Bolduc.Wendy Hunt, president of the Nashua Chamber of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1680352","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\/1680352","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680352\/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=1680352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}