{"id":1683928,"date":"2022-10-11T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683928"},"modified":"2022-10-11T15:34:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:34:54","slug":"add-new-hampshire-to-the-list-of-states-where-democrats-are-ducking-debates-with-gop-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/add-new-hampshire-to-the-list-of-states-where-democrats-are-ducking-debates-with-gop-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Add New Hampshire To The List Of States Where Democrats Are Ducking Debates With GOP Rivals"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fadd-new-hampshire-to-the-list-of-states-where-democrats-are-ducking-debates-with-gop-rivals%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=1683928&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><\/div>\n<p>New Hampshire\u2019s Democrat Senate candidate and incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan is refusing to debate her Republican rival Don Bolduc at an upcoming campaign event, despite previously pledging to do so. <\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nhjournal.com\/hassan-campaign-forces-nashua-chamber-to-drop-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Hampshire Journal<\/a>, both candidates had originally agreed to participate in a debate hosted by the Nashua Chamber of Commerce this month, but on Oct. 6, Chamber President and CEO Wendy Hunt \u201ccontacted the Bolduc campaign with news that Hassan would not participate in the event if she and Bolduc were to appear onstage together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe position of the Hassan campaign is that they would only participate if this were a stand-alone forum, not a debate,\u201d Hunt told the Journal. while confirming that there had been a \u201cchange of format\u201d regarding the event.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Hassan prematurely released a <a href=\"https:\/\/maggiehassan.com\/news\/press-release\/senator-maggie-hassan-will-participate-in-three-general-election-debates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">list of debates<\/a> that she planned on participating in this fall before New Hampshire Republicans had even selected their nominee for Senate. Included in the list is one debate hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/nhjournal.com\/hassans-unprecedented-arrogance-on-debates-sparks-reax-from-media-opponents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left-wing organizations<\/a> such as New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire PBS, and New Hampshire Bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement provided to The Federalist, Bolduc campaign spokeswoman Kate Constantini said that Hassan\u2019s decision to back out of the Nashua debate is \u201cperfectly understandable\u201d given her \u201clackluster record\u201d while serving in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic officials owe it to the people they are seeking to represent to make the case directly and answer their questions, not hide behind attack ads sponsored by special interests in Washington,\u201d Constantini said. \u201cThis is the action of a desperate politician who knows she is going to face the music from voters in a few short weeks and her time in politics is running out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to his campaign, Bolduc has proposed a total of seven debates.<\/p>\n<p>The Hassan campaign did not respond to The Federalist\u2019s request for comment on why Sen. Hassan backed out of the Nashua debate with Bolduc or if she believes that voters deserve to see Bolduc and herself debating the issues most pertinent to New Hampshire on live television.<\/p>\n<p>Despite more reliable polling firms such as the Trafalgar Group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TRF-NH-General-1004-Poll-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">showing<\/a> Bolduc gaining on Hassan in the final weeks of the election cycle, the Democrat senator is reportedly limiting her in-person appearances at public campaign events. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/nhjournal.com\/hidin-hassan-dem-averaging-just-one-campaign-event-per-week-in-re-elect-bid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">separate report<\/a> from the New Hampshire Journal, as of Saturday Bolduc had made at least 40 in-person, public campaign appearances since winning the GOP Senate primary on Sept. 13, while Hassan only made four over the same time frame (and didn\u2019t allow \u201copen access to the press\u201d at any of them).<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]n the nearly 100 days since the Fourth of July holiday, Hassan has made just 15 in-state, in-person campaign appearances \u2014 about one per week,\u201d the Journal reported. \u201cMeanwhile, both during the primary and after, Bolduc has averaged more than two per day according to data provided by the campaign and confirmed by news reports and social media accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But New Hampshire is hardly the only battleground state where <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/13\/democrats-in-key-battlegrounds-are-refusing-to-debate-republican-opponents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrat candidates are avoiding debates with their Republican opponents<\/a>. In Arizona, Democrat gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs has refused to debate GOP candidate Kari Lake, with Hobbs\u2019 campaign declaring Lake to be too extreme to share a stage with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, debating a conspiracy theorist like Kari Lake \u2014 whose entire campaign platform is to cause enormous chaos and make Arizona the subject of national ridicule \u2014 would only lead to constant interruptions, pointless distractions, and childish name-calling,\u201d Hobbs campaign manager Nicole DeMont said.<\/p>\n<p>Other highly contested elections experiencing similar situations include the Senate races in Washington \u2014 between Democrat Sen. Patty Murray and Republican challenger Tiffany Smiley \u2014 and in Pennsylvania, where Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has invoked his recovery from a stroke to limit debate appearances against Republican Mehmet Oz.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Shawn Fleetwood is a Staff Writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire\u2019s Democrat Senate candidate and incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan is refusing to debate her Republican rival Don Bolduc at an upcoming campaign event, despite previously pledging to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1683930,"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-1683928","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\/1683928","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1683930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}