Kelly Ayotte Adds Another Extremist to Her Ranks with Don Bolduc Endorsement
Kelly Ayotte Adds Another Extremist to Her Ranks with Don Bolduc Endorsement
Today, former U.S. Senator and Republican candidate for governor Kelly Ayotte announced that failed Republican nominee for U.S. Senate and noted election denier Don Bolduc has endorsed her campaign for governor.
Bolduc is just the latest in a long line of extremists that Ayotte has courted throughout her campaign for governor. Throughout the 2022 election, Bolduc made several false claims about the 2020 election being “stolen” from Donald Trump in an effort to win over the former president and his base, including claiming there was “significant fraud,” and that “school buses brought thousands of people into the state to vote illegally.” Bolduc also “bragged about his willingness to reject certifying the 2024 results if elected.”Bolduc, like Ayotte, is also an anti-abortion extremist.
Bolduc has said the Supreme Court “made the right decision” when overturning Roe v. Wade, said that “decisions on abortion rights belong to ‘gentlemen’ state legislators,” called for Planned Parenthood to be “defunded,” and called IVF “a disgusting practice.”
Bolduc joins a long list of extremists backing Kelly Ayotte’s campaign, including:
- State Rep. Jon Stone, who “threatened to kill fellow police officers in a shooting spree, and murder his chief after raping the chief’s wife and children, all while he was already under scrutiny for his inappropriate relationship with a teen girl.”
- State Rep. Jess Edwards, who voted against raising the legal age of marriage from 16 to 18, because, he claims, 16 year olds are “of ripe, fertile age.” Ayotte campaigned with Edwards earlier this year at a school.
- State Rep. Ken Weyler, best known for spreading dangerous and baseless conspiracy theories throughout the pandemic, including allegingthat “the coronavirus vaccine contains a ‘living organism with tentacles,’” that it “darkens the eyes of newborns,” that “5G technology had somehow been inserted into the vaccine to control people’s thoughts,” and “called the pope and others ‘at the top’ of the Roman Catholic Church ‘satanists’ and ‘luciferians’ for backing public health measures.”
- State Senator Carrie Gendreau, who has a long history of attacking the LGBTQ+ community — including sparking a hateful controversy that compelled a New Hampshire Town Manager to resign — and most recently introduced legislation to ban abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest after just 15 days.
- The New England White Network, a white supremacist hate group. The leader of the group, Ryan J. Murdough, cited Ayotte’s goal of keeping “invaders” out of New Hampshire as reasons he and his group are supporting her for governor, and claimed that “white nationalists in New Hampshire look forward to voting for her.”
“It’s no surprise to see Don Bolduc embrace Kelly Ayotte: the two U.S. Senate losers have both proven they will do and say anything – including embracing far-right conspiracy theorists, backtracking on their own word, and putting themselves ahead of Granite Staters – to win votes,” said DGA States Press Secretary Emma O’Brien. “Don Bolduc and Kelly Ayotte are cut from the same cloth, and just as Granite Staters rejected Bolduc in 2022, they will once again reject Kelly Ayotte and her extremist agenda this year.”
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