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EXCLUSIVE: AMHERST, New Hampshire – Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan calls July 4 “a great day to celebrate our freedom, our independence, and what Americans have in common, which is that love of freedom and love of country. “
But Independence Day is also a big day for politicians to campaign.
And Hassan, a former first-term governor and senator who is being targeted by Republicans as he faces a potentially challenging re-election this year in the main state of the New Hampshire battlefield, was in campaign mode as she spoke to Fox News before July 4th annually. parade in the picturesque town of Amherst.
Pointing to the crowded field of Republicans contesting for their party’s nomination in hopes of facing Hassan in the November midterm elections, the senator accused that “I have a group of really extreme opponents. Whoever comes out as the nominee in this primary is going to be extreme, it will be a rubber stamp for [Senate GOP leader] Mitch McConnell. “
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Democrats face a wind against a historic and extremely difficult political climate fueled by rising gas prices, record inflation and President Biden’s underwater approval ratings, as they try to keep their majorities in the Senate and the House of Representatives in November.
Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, at the annual Independence Day parade in Amherst on July 4, 2022.
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But Democratic strategists see the achievement of silver in the seismic reversal of the iconic Roe v. Wade by the conservative majority of the Supreme Court and the return of the issue of legalized abortion to state lawmakers. It could offer Democrats a chance to change the campaign conversation, energize their progressive base, and win back key female and suburban voters who helped Democrats win back the House in 2018 but appeared to share the party lines in some 2020 Congress competitions and again in the GOP. won elections in Virginia and New Jersey last November.
“The decision of the Supreme Court has just catapulted us back. Now, women are once again second-class citizens in the United States because this fundamental freedom has been taken away from us. This reduction will be of critical for people to understand that Mitch McConnell and my opponents want to pass a national abortion ban, “Hassan accused in an exclusive national interview with Fox News.” We can’t let that happen and people want to vote for candidates. the choice above and below the vote. “
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While abortion is likely to grow as a mid-term issue, a poll suggests that inflation and gas prices remain the biggest concern for voters.
Hassan and fellow Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona for the first term, also coming from a major general election battle state that also faces a challenging re-election, in February co-authored a bill to temporarily repeals the federal gas tax, to help consumers cope. at rising prices at the pump.
While the president is now on board to support the idea, their bill still faces obstacles in Congress.
“We need to reduce gas prices. People are really feeling the pain at the pump. I want to suspend the gas tax at least for the rest of the year. I’m glad the president came on board. “I will continue to push for this. And also hold big oil accountable because they are making record profits while still keeping prices really, really high,” Hassan stressed.
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While some Congress leaders in both parties are against the bill, Hassan has targeted Republicans.
“Republicans have been blocking any vote on this in Congress. We want to get them to stop blocking it and keep pushing for it. Most Americans think this is a really sensible thing to do. And it helps to put a little bit of it. more money back in people’s pockets at a time when other costs are also high, ”she said.
New Hampshire State Senate President Chuck Morse, contesting GOP nomination for U.S. Senate, marches at annual Amherst, New Hampshire, Independence Day parade , on 4 July 2022.
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Two of the leading Republican candidates contesting for the Senate also marched in Monday’s parade.
“I think it’s pretty clear – the average person right now is – what they’re paying to buy their groceries for this holiday weekend or the fuel they’re putting in the car to get to the cookouts. they know what is going on. They know what is happening. They know we are moving in the wrong direction, “New Hampshire State Senate President Chuck Morse told Fox News.
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“I think it has a lot to explain,” Morse, who owns a small business, said of Hassan. “We will certainly make it clear that Sen. Hassan is not doing his job.”
And former Londonderry, New Hampshire city manager Kevin Smith stressed that “at the end of the day, people will go to the polls, vote with their wallets. And when they’re paying more from $ 5 a gallon for gas.When they are paying more than $ 6 a gallon for oil for home heating.When they are paying high prices in the history of groceries – those are the issues they will vote on as soon as they enter that ballot box. “
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And Smith claimed that “I’m the only one – not Maggie Hassan – who has a plan to fix those issues.”
Republican Senate candidate Kevin Smith marches at the annual Amherst, New Hampshire, Independence Day parade on July 4, 2022.
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While New Hampshire for a century had the first presidential primary in the nomination calendar, the state primary is one of the last in the schedule.
