{"id":10619,"date":"2025-06-25T12:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/scott-brown-launches-campaign-for-senate-in-new-hampshire\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:17:50","slug":"scott-brown-launches-campaign-for-senate-in-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/scott-brown-launches-campaign-for-senate-in-new-hampshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Brown launches campaign for Senate in New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown is running for Senate in New Hampshire for a second time, he announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m running for the United States Senate to restore common sense, keep our border secure, and fight for our New Hampshire values,\u201d Brown, a Republican, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenScottBrown\/status\/1937828116317208668\" target=\"_blank\">posted on social media<\/a> Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/scott-brown-new-hampshire-us-senate-2026\/65175908\" target=\"_blank\">WMUR first reported Brown\u2019s plans to enter the race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who served as Ambassador to New Zealand during President Donald Trump\u2019s first term, praised the president \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/2024-election\/results\/new-hampshire\/\" target=\"_blank\">who narrowly lost the state<\/a>to former Vice President Kamala Harris last year \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenScottBrown\/status\/1937828116317208668\" target=\"_blank\">in his launch video<\/a>, saying that Trump \u201cis fighting every day to right the ship. He sealed the border, he stood up to China, and he restored our standing in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His announcement Wednesday makes Brown the highest profile Republican to enter the race to replace Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who decided to forgo a reelection bid in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s announcement comes after former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/08\/sununu-new-hampshire-senate-seat-00278230\" target=\"_blank\">decided against his own Senate bid<\/a> earlier this year, even after Trump told reporters he hoped the popular moderate governor would run.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic New Hampshire Rep. Chris Pappas launched his campaign shortly after Shaheen went public with her retirement plans. Pappas&#8217; campaign was quick to criticize Brown following his announcement, accusing him of looking \u201cfor yet another opportunity to do Wall Street\u2019s bidding and blindly support President Trump,\u201d in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, meanwhile, took a shot at Pappas in his launch video: \u201cChris Pappas wants a better title,\u201d he said. \u201cI want a better America.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown is running for Senate in New Hampshire for a second time, he announced Wednesday. \u201cI\u2019m running for the United States Senate to restore common sense, keep our border secure, and fight for our New Hampshire values,\u201d Brown, a Republican, posted on social media Wednesday. WMUR first reported Brown\u2019s plans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}