{"id":1711922,"date":"2022-10-26T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711922"},"modified":"2022-10-26T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:03:28","slug":"mcconnell-super-pac-bails-on-new-hampshire-senate-race-after-polls-show-a-dead-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-super-pac-bails-on-new-hampshire-senate-race-after-polls-show-a-dead-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Super PAC Bails On New Hampshire Senate Race After Polls Show A Dead Heat"},"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%2Fmcconnell-super-pac-bails-on-new-hampshire-senate-race-after-polls-show-a-dead-heat%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=1711922&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>Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is working hard to maintain a conference he can control after the midterms rather than a GOP majority in the upper chamber. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, McConnell\u2019s super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/24\/new-hampshires-don-bolduc-is-the-latest-casualty-in-mcconnells-crusade-against-america-first-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pulled<\/a> $5.6 million from New Hampshire\u2019s Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc. The cash withdrawal came two days after Bolduc gave an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/19\/don-bolduc-new-hampshire-senate-00062437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview <\/a>with Politico, maintaining his opposition to McConnell for another term in leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have said no to that question, and I\u2019m not backing off,\u201d Bolduc told the magazine about the prospect of voting for McConnell. <\/p>\n<p>The question was presented after McConnell\u2019s super PAC had pledged a $23 million investment in the toss-up Senate race against Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan. But Bolduc, whom the Washington establishment opposed during the Republican primary, refused to kiss the ring of the incumbent minority leader. His campaign will now pay nearly $6 million for it in canceled spending from McConnell. <\/p>\n<p>The decision to withdraw scarce resources from a prime opportunity for a Senate pick-up is just the latest episode of McConnell sabotaging candidates who threaten his leadership perch. McConnell\u2019s allies can\u2019t claim that the move to cancel spending was provoked by Bolduc being a flailing candidate, either. Two polls conducted prior to the SLF announcement last week show Bolduc within the margin of error to oust the sitting Democratic senator. And that\u2019s without even taking into account that polls are notoriously crafted by the left to manipulate rather than reflect public opinion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emersoncollegepolling.com\/bolduc-gains-on-hassan-in-us-senate-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>to a poll out Monday from Emerson College and WHDH 7 News, a local television station in Boston, Hassan led Bolduc by 2 points in the survey with a 4 percent margin of error. That poll was conducted Oct. 18-19. Another survey from Republican pollster Fabrezio, Lee and Associates <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSextonWMUR\/status\/1583434843475439616?s=20&#038;t=4sPzZDp6JQngglDa1X3_yg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">out <\/a>Friday morning also showed the Democrat senator leading Bolduc by 2 points with another 4 percent margin of error. <\/p>\n<p>While the survey from Emerson College was not published until Monday, the poll from Fabrezio, Lee and Associates came out last week. The Senate Leadership Fund did not respond to The Federalist\u2019s repeated inquiries about whether the group had examined the survey results before making the decision to axe $5.6 million from the competitive Senate contest. <\/p>\n<p>Bolduc is by no means the only Republican Senate candidate this year to be sabotaged by McConnell for refusing to back him as leader. In Arizona, Republican venture capitalist Blake Masters was stripped of $18 million from McConnell\u2019s PAC while running against Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly. During the Republican Senate primary, Masters also pledged not to back McConnell for leadership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/az\/arizona-senate-masters-vs-kelly-7390.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>to RealClearPolitics\u2019 latest aggregate of polls, Masters is within 3 points of defeating the incumbent lawmaker. <\/p>\n<p>While pulling resources from pick-up opportunities in Arizona and New Hampshire, McConnell is redistributing cash to support his preferred candidate in a contest between two Republicans. In Alaska, McConnell has spent more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/24\/murkowski-peltola-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$5 million<\/a> to defend incumbent Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Bolduc maintained his opposition to McConnell for GOP Senate leader just days before the Senate Leadership Fund pulled millions from the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1711925,"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-1711922","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\/1711922","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}