{"id":1723467,"date":"2022-11-03T14:04:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1723467"},"modified":"2022-11-03T14:05:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:05:04","slug":"political-violence-republican-senate-candidate-attacked-by-protester-at-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/political-violence-republican-senate-candidate-attacked-by-protester-at-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Violence: Republican Senate Candidate Attacked by Protester at Debate"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fpolitical-violence-republican-senate-candidate-attacked-by-protester-at-debate%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=1723467&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 New Hampshire Senate candidate and retired U.S. Army general Don Bolduc was attacked by a protester Wednesday before taking the stage for a debate with Sen. Maggie Hassan (D.), Bolduc&#8217;s campaign said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prior to the debate, an individual in the crowd gathered outside attempted to punch the general and was quickly apprehended and arrested,&#8221; a spokesperson for Bolduc&#8217;s campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/ri-man-charged-disturbance-after-approaching-nh-senate-candidate-don-bolduc-before-debate\/OK5YRM5BGZA2RICDWBQFDL3YPI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Boston 25 News.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Goffstown, N.H., where the debate was held at Saint Anselm College, said the assailant was Joseph Hart, a 37-year-old from Rhode Island. Police said that before the attack the college told Hart he was not welcome on the property. After he attacked Bolduc, Hart was &#8220;taken into custody \u2026 and charged with criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes as Democrats this week have accused Republicans of fostering a climate of political violence following a break-in and assault against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s husband Paul Pelosi. The alleged assailant in that case, a Canadian citizen who police say broke into the Pelosis&#8217; home with a hammer and zip ties, was in the United States illegally and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/11\/03\/pelosi-attacker-david-depape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faces<\/a> possible deportation.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Donohoe, a spokesman for Hassan, condemned the attack on Bolduc and said the assailant was a libertarian activist who had run-ins with Hassan&#8217;s campaign staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disgusting behavior,&#8221; Donohoe said. &#8220;We saw this same libertarian party activist get aggressive with our campaign volunteers at this debate and the last.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The attempted assault on Bolduc comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3714550-hassan-bolduc-neck-and-neck-in-new-hampshire-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls<\/a> show the Republican neck and neck with Hassan days ahead of the midterm election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican New Hampshire Senate candidate and retired U.S. Army general Don Bolduc was attacked by a protester Wednesday before taking the stage for a debate with Sen. Maggie Hassan (D.), Bolduc&#8217;s campaign said.<br \/>\nThe post Political Violence: Republican Senate Candidate Attacked by Protester at Debate appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":1723470,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1723467","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\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}