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New Hampshire Governor Hassan To Run For Senate Against Kelly Ayotte
Posted On Oct 05 2015
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In reaction to Gov. Maggie Hassan’s announcement Monday that she is a candidate for the U.S. Senate, the pro-Republican super PAC America Rising quickly went live with a website that charges the two-term governor has made “every aspect of their lives more expensive”. Kelly Ayotte, ending months of speculation about her Senate ambitions and teeing up what could be one of the marquee Senate races of 2016.
Hassan will not seek re-election as governor.
The video has the look of a campaign commercial, with footage of Hassan touring businesses and schools. “Because Washington has given in to powerful special interests and lobbyists who rig the system for themselves and against the middle class”. “We balanced the budget and created a business-friendly environment that has New Hampshire’s unemployment rate at the lowest levels since 2008”.
With Hassan’s future plans now set, other state election line-ups will soon fall into place.
Maggie Hassan announced Monday she’s running against GOP Sen.
The second-term governor is the first Democrat to announce she’s in the race to challenge Ayotte.
In her video, Hassan says lawmakers can “do better” for people struggling to pay for college, police officers fighting drug abuse and “thousands of women who’ve had access to health care services threatened by politicians playing games with Planned Parenthood”.
“I’m running for reelection so I can continue working across the aisle to solve problems and deliver results for you. It was hard to see how they could realistically hope to win back the majority without New Hampshire on the board”, said Jennifer Duffy, a US Senate race analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report in Washington. However, the fact that Hassan is arguably the toughest challenger Ayotte could face next year just brings home the fact that Republican control over the Senate is very much up in the air in 2016, especially since it seems likely that Democrats will pick up seats in Illinois and Wisconsin.
