Mr Mowers, who lost to Mr Pappas in 2020, earned confirm by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise. Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, a third-class Republican in the House, is backing Ms. Leavitt, who worked for her.
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Ms Leavitt and other Republican candidates have portrayed Mr Mowers as an establishment tool and criticized him for voting in 2016 in both the New Jersey and New Hampshire primaries. (He voted in New Jersey before moving to New Hampshire to work on Chris Christie’s presidential campaign.) Mr. Mowers defended himself by channeling Mr. Trump, saying he was attacked because he planned to “change the status quo.”
In New Hampshire’s Second District, which includes the rest of the state, seven Republicans are vying to face Ms. Kuster, a longtime adoption attorney seeking her sixth term.
George Hansel, the two-term Republican mayor of the free town of Keene, was endorsed by Mr. Sununu. Other candidates include Bob Burns, former Hillsborough county treasurer, and Lily Tang Williams, who ran for the Senate in Colorado as a Liberal in 2016.
In Rhode Island, six candidates are vying in the Democratic primaries for the seat held by Representative Jim Langevin, who will retire after 11 terms. Seth Magaziner, the state’s general treasurer, had a sizable lead in the early voting. On the Republican side, Allan Fung, the former mayor of Cranston, is running.
Petty, trifling
That’s about it because of what sparked the excitement in Tuesday’s vote.
In the race for governor of New Hampshire, Mr. Sununu, who has refused to run for the Senate, was seen as virtually untouchable in his bid for a fourth term. He faced negligible opposition in his primaries and was heavily supported in November against Tom Sherman, a state senator who was unopposed in the party primaries. Democracy for governor.
