Three Things Granite Staters Have Learned In the Year Since Kelly Ayotte Launched Her Campaign

Three Things Granite Staters Have Learned In the Year Since Kelly Ayotte Launched Her Campaign

One year ago today, Kelly Ayotte launched her campaign for governor. Despite Ayotte’s best efforts to duck debates, hide from the press, and avoid answering to Granite Staters for her dangerous and extreme track record, here are three things New Hampshire voters have learned about Ayotte and why they cannot trust her in New Hampshire’s corner office:

• Kelly Ayotte is willing to pander to the most dangerous extremists in her party: Some of her most extreme endorsers include Republican state Rep. Jon Stone, who “threatened to kill fellow police officers in a shooting spree” and Jess Edwards, who went viral for voting against raising the age to marry in New Hampshire because, he claims, 16-year-olds are “ripe” and “fertile,” along with the New England White Network, a white supremacist hate group that has repeatedly praised Ayotte on online forums.
• Kelly Ayotte is still all-in on attacking reproductive freedom — even as she attempts to mislead voters about her toxic record: In the U.S. Senate, Ayotte led the charge for a national abortion ban, called for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and voted four times to defund Planned Parenthood. After losing her seat, Ayotte later went on to serve the Trump administration as the “sherpa” for then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch, paving the way for the overturning of Roe. Today, in her current campaign, one of the only policies Ayotte has committed to is cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood.
• Kelly Ayotte’s Trump troubles have only worsened: Ayotte lost her 2016 reelection campaign to the U.S. Senate after infamously un-endorsing Trump, claiming he was “talking about assault” and that she “cannot vote for Donald Trump.” After refusing to say who she voted for in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary, angering the far-right MAGA base, Ayotte officially announced her endorsement of him once again this year.

“In the year since Kelly Ayotte launched her campaign for governor, the only thing Granite Staters have learned for sure about Ayotte is that they can’t trust her,” said DGA States Press Secretary Emma O’Brien. “While Ayotte has been laser-focused on courting extremists and running from her record of attacking reproductive rights, Granite Staters are looking for a leader who will take on their toughest problems. That’s not Kelly Ayotte, who, in the last year, has only  proven she is too extreme to be New Hampshire’s next governor.”

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