A Republican candidate hoping to unseat Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in the next year elections in the Granite State connected the two-term incumbent to progressive firebrand freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and railed against the senator for failing to vote against the Green New Deal, Fox News informed.
“Jeanne Shaheen is not putting New Hampshire first. She’s not putting you first. She’s putting Washington big government and those seeking the path to socialism first,” the candidate, former state House of Representatives Speaker Bill O’Brien, said launching his campaign for the Republican Senate nomination.
New Hampshire saw extremely competitive Senate races in the 2014 and 2016 cycles.
O’Brien, who is a well known figure in the Granite State thanks to his massive budget cuts, spent most of his speech targeting Shaheen, a popular former governor.
“Jeanne Shaheen has proven she’s captive of a big government pushing Washington control. She’s left New Hampshire behind,” he argued.
O’Brien also slammed Shaheen for her vote in support for the Affordable Care Act known as ObamaCare. He also criticized her for lacking courage as she voted ‘present’ on the ‘Green New Deal’.
“She didn’t put New Hampshire first. She ran away. She refused to vote no,” he charged.
O’Brien claimed “that Shaheen’s putting Washington big government first. Perhaps she thinks Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders are New Hampshire, because that’s who she’s putting first.”
Longtime New Hampshire Democratic Party chairman Ray Buckley, pointing to O’Brien’s tenure as speaker, labeled him a “far-right extremist.”
And Buckley tied him to Republican President Trump, arguing that “New Hampshire voters remember Bill O’Brien was a mirror image of Donald Trump before Trump ever ran for president. In office, they both made sabotaging the Affordable Care Act, defunding Planned Parenthood and undermining voting rights their top priorities.”
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