{"id":21408,"date":"2026-04-16T05:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pappas-holds-cash-advantage-over-gop-rivals-in-new-hampshire\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T05:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:01:38","slug":"pappas-holds-cash-advantage-over-gop-rivals-in-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pappas-holds-cash-advantage-over-gop-rivals-in-new-hampshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Pappas holds cash advantage over GOP rivals in New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) holds a sizable cash advantage over his GOP rivals in the race for New Hampshire\u2019s open Senate seat.<\/p>\n

The Democrat raked in $3.3 million to his campaign account over the first quarter of the year as he vies to succeed retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). Pappas, who faces only nominal opposition for his party\u2019s nomination, entered April with $4.2 million in his war chest, according to his Federal Election Commission filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pappas\u2019 leading GOP competitor, former Sen. John E. Sununu, raised $1.1 million directly to his campaign account and had nearly $1.9 million in cash on hand. He spent just $349,000, per his filing<\/a> \u2014 a significantly lower burn rate than Pappas, who spent $2.3 million over the last three months.<\/p>\n

Sununu\u2019s primary rival, former Sen. Scott Brown, lagged even further behind. Brown raised a modest $321,000 and entered the second quarter with $783,000 in his campaign coffers. He spent more money than he brought in, according to his filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pappas leads both of his potential Republican opponents in hypothetical polling match-ups<\/a> of the general election, though his margin against Sununu is slimmer.<\/p>\n

Sununu, who has the backing of the national GOP establishment and President Donald Trump<\/a> in a state Republicans hope to flip, holds a wide lead<\/a> over Brown, a former Trump ambassador, in polls of the GOP primary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) holds a sizable cash advantage over his GOP rivals in the race for New Hampshire\u2019s open Senate seat. The Democrat raked in $3.3 million to his campaign account over the first quarter of the year as he vies to succeed retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). Pappas, who faces only nominal opposition […]<\/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-21408","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\/21408","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=21408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}