Washington, D.C. – If Granite Staters are thinking they only see or hear from Maggie Hassan in campaign ads, then they’d be right.
According to reporting from the NH Journal, Hassan is averaging just one campaign event per week, and they aren’t open to the press.
This isn’t too big of a surprise. As we told you in September, of Hassan’s four properties, her New Hampshire home is the most likely to be sold when she loses next month.
Hassan thinks her best hope of winning is attacking General Bolduc on the airwaves and hiding from New Hampshire. That strategy is doomed to fail.
More from NH Journal:
Since winning the September 13 GOP primary, U.S. Senate nominee Don Bolduc has made at least 40 in-person, public campaign appearances, including a series of almost-daily town halls where he takes questions, unscreened, from the crowd.
Over that same 25-day period ending Saturday, how many live, public campaign appearances have incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan made?
Four.
And none of them allowed open access to the press.
In fact, in the nearly 100 days since the Fourth of July holiday, Hassan has made just 15 in-state, in-person campaign appearances — about one per week. Meanwhile, both during the primary and after, Bolduc has averaged more than two per day according to data provided by the campaign and confirmed by news reports and social media accounts…
Bolduc is making “Hidin’ Hassan” an issue in his campaign. He is hitting her for participating in just three debates (he has proposed seven), and for her to even appear on stage with him at an upcoming Nashua Chamber of Commerce event. As NHJournal first reported, Hassan’s campaign contacted the Chamber and demanded the scheduled debate be converted into a forum and pledging not to participate if she and the retired general were on stage at the same time.
In a follow-up article by The Epoch Times, Bolduc spokesperson Kate Constantini said Hassan also insisted Bolduc not be present when she speaks.
“He can’t even be in the audience,” said Constantini, “he has to stay in the green room.”
In a statement, Bolduc has called out Hassan for being a Granite State no-show.
“Sen. Hassan has spent too much time in Washington, D.C. if she thinks she can avoid debates and still convince voters to give her another six years in the Senate,” Bolduc said. “Her presence in the state is already woefully inadequate, and now she is trying to limit the number of times she has to answer difficult questions in an unscripted setting. From town hall meetings to retail stops to debates, I have been campaigning the New Hampshire way from day one.”
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