Another Diss of N.H. Primary, This Time from a Top Democrat

“Senator Reid’s disparaging comments about New Hampshire are as insulting as they are wrong, and an apology would certainly be appropriate”, said the Democratic governor, who is running for the party’s Senate nomination. But for members of New Hampshire’s political class, who are keenly sensitive to any insults to the state’s role, remarks like Reid’s are not something to be taken lightly.

State GOP Chairwoman Jennifer Horn said Hassan has not gone almost far enough in denouncing Reid for his comments.

The backstory is that on Monday, at a Q&A event organized by The Washington Post, Reid said he’s “terribly upset about how we were choosing our presidents”. Nobody lives there. You go to Iowa, and there are a few people there. “It’s a place that does not demonstrate what America is all about, for a number of reasons”.

“Our first-in-the-nation primary is a cherished responsibility for Granite Staters, a responsibility we hold because we invented it, and because we do it exceptionally well”, the statement said, according to WMUR Manchester.

Iowa and New Hampshire are often criticized for not being as diverse as the rest of the nation.

In a direct rebuke to his Republican counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that raising the debt limit is non-negotiable. “I will all the time battle alongside Secretary Gardner to guard the New Hampshire main”. “It would be just awful, foolish and bad for the country to start to renege on the bills we already have run up”.

“He has always been very good to New Hampshire over the years, and like every other convention, this will be part of the conversation”.

“And clearly he hasn’t been to New Hampshire”, she said, according to New Hampshire Public Radio.

Reid “apologized” Tuesday afternoon, telling reporters in Las Vegas, “New Hampshire is heavily populated and loaded with a lot of minorities, my apologies”.