In news that jolted all sides of the political spectrum in New Hampshire, a just-completed St. Anselm’s College poll showed former Trump Administration official Matt Mowers in a close 49 to 41 percent race with Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas.
The survey was a surprise, since the same poll showed Joe Biden and Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen with double-digit leads statewide.
But former U.S. State Department official Mowers, 31, who moved into New Hampshire from New Jersey in 2015 to work on Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential campaign, is running the best among Republican candidates in the Granite State.
“This poll reflects a tightening of the race that squares with what am seeing and hearing,” former State Attorney General Tom Rath told Newsmax, “You have to give credit to Mowers for running a smart and energetic race. A congressman is always the most vulnerable in their first couple of re-elects as this one is for Pappas.”
But Rath noted that the district includes “Pappas' old Executive Council district that includes Manchester and environs and it is substantial. Mowers is tied closely to Trump which got him through the primary, and I’m not sure if it is enough of a positive in the general right now. Mowers is hurt a bit by the fact that there is a US Senate race this time. That race on the ballot is directly below the governor’s race. [Republican Gov. Chris] Sununu is far and away the most popular candidate on the ballot so closer ballot proximity to him might help Mowers.”
John Gizzi is chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.
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