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Former New Hampshire U.S. Senator Bob Smith Makes 2020 Senate Race Endorsement

May 5, 2020

Former New Hampshire Republican U.S. Senator Bob Smith has endorsed retired Brigadier General Don Bolduc in the state’s U.S. Senate race.

Two Republicans are vying to take on U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat who is also a former governor of the state.

“It’s pretty easy for me,” Smith said, according to The Union Leader of Manchester, New Hampshire.  “It should be pretty easy for ‘Life Free or Die’ New Hampshirites.”

Smith ripped Bolduc’s opponent, Corky Messner, referring to him as an “interloper from Colorado”, referring to the fact that Messner only established residency in the state a few years ago.

Smith, who was one of the most conservative members of Congress, served as a U.S. senator from 1990 to 2003. He lost the Republican primary in 2002 to John E. Sununu, who later served one term before losing to Shaheen in 2008.

Since then, Smith has run for U.S. Senate three more times unsuccessfully. Two of those bids (2004 and 2010) were in Florida. He also ran for U.S. Senate again in New Hampshire in 2014, but lost the primary to former Massachusetts U.S. Senator Scott Brown, who ran in New Hampshire that year. (Brown lost the general election in 2014 to current U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan, a Democrat.)


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