{"id":1709232,"date":"2022-10-24T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709232"},"modified":"2022-10-24T14:18:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:18:27","slug":"new-hampshires-don-bolduc-is-the-latest-casualty-in-mcconnells-crusade-against-america-first-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-hampshires-don-bolduc-is-the-latest-casualty-in-mcconnells-crusade-against-america-first-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire\u2019s Don Bolduc Is The Latest Casualty In McConnell\u2019s Crusade Against \u2018America First\u2019 Candidates"},"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\">30<\/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-hampshires-don-bolduc-is-the-latest-casualty-in-mcconnells-crusade-against-america-first-candidates%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=1709232&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 GOP super PAC with ties to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is pulling the plug on supporting New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc, despite the most reliable polling showing the race to be a close contest.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), the McConnell-backed super PAC announced on Friday that it would be canceling roughly $5.6 million in television ads that it had previously reserved for the final weeks of the highly contested race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the cycle comes to a close, we are shifting resources to where they can be most effective to achieve our ultimate goal: winning the majority,\u201d SLF President Steven Law told <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/V0E0b#selection-671.1-671.222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SLF\u2019s stunning withdrawal from New Hampshire comes several weeks after the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/07\/hassan-senate-republican-ad-buys-00061014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pulled nearly $3 million in ad buys<\/a> in the state, with the GOP group redirecting the funds toward states such as Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re glad to see Republican outside forces showing up in a big way in New Hampshire, with millions in spending pledged to take down Maggie Hassan in the final stretch,\u201d NRSC spokesman Chris Hartline told Politico when the SLF funds were still slated for the northeastern state.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u7z6mEw2gTw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent interview<\/a> on \u201cBreitbart News Saturday\u201d about groups like SLF pulling their financial support from the race, Bolduc, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/pfNVu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> he would not support McConnell for majority leader if he were elected to the Senate, appeared to brush off the news, saying that \u201cit doesn\u2019t change what [his campaign is] doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won [the primary] because we worked harder than everybody else,\u201d he said. \u201cI can\u2019t lie, we need the money \u2026 but we\u2019re going to continue to move forward. We did it with less than $500,000 last time. We did it by working hard and not counting on anybody but Granite Staters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite SLF and the NRSC seemingly throwing in the towel on Bolduc\u2019s campaign, recent surveys from more reliable polling sources have signaled that the race between Bolduc and incumbent Democrat Hassan is a close one. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TRF-NH-General-1004-Poll-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> conducted at the end of September by The Trafalgar Group, Hassan holds a slight, roughly 3-point lead over Bolduc (48.2 to 45 percent), which falls just outside the survey\u2019s 2.9 percent margin of error. An <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/hassan-lead-narrows-over-bolduc-151658027.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">internal survey<\/a> released by the Bolduc campaign shows similar results, with Hassan only leading Bolduc by 2 points (49 to 47 percent).<\/p>\n<p>During the final weeks of New Hampshire\u2019s Republican primary, a separate McConnell-affiliated group known as the White Mountain PAC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democrats-meddle-another-key-gop-primary-republicans-spending-big-offset-their-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> spent millions in attack ads against Bolduc to convince GOP primary voters to nominate Chuck Morse, the establishment candidate supported by McConnell. Alternatively, PACs associated with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., invested millions into the state\u2019s GOP primary to boost Bolduc\u2019s chances of winning the nomination, with Democrats hoping that the retired U.S. Army general would be an easier candidate to beat in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s bid to undermine a strong, \u201cAmerica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as the Senate Leadership Fund, the McConnell-backed super PAC announced on Friday it would be canceling roughly $5.6 million in television ads in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1709235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709232","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=1709232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}