Battle for Senate: New Hampshire’s Hassan spotlights her push for ‘increased funding for police’

EXCLUSIVE: With Republican teams and candidates more and more concentrating on Democrats over the problem of crime, Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan is showcasing her file of help for legislation enforcement in a brand new advert hitting airwaves in the important thing battleground state of New Hampshire.

“As legislation enforcement, we would like what’s greatest for our neighbors. Maggie Hassan is aware of that, and he or she does, too,” Sheriff Jeff Stiegler of New Hampshire’s Grafton County says within the spot, which was shared first with Fox Information on Tuesday. “She voted with Republicans so as to add a 100,000 new cops.”

“Hassan’s carried out the alternative of defunding the police. In each funds as governor, Hassan elevated funding for police, and it’s no completely different with Maggie within the Senate,” Merrimack County Sheriff David Croft says of Hassan, a former governor and first-term senator who’s been closely focused by Republicans as she runs for re-election this 12 months, in a race that’s considered one of a handful throughout the nation which will decide if Republicans win again the Senate majority in November’s midterm elections.

“She takes retaining New Hampshire protected critically, Croft emphasizes close to the tip of the industrial, which Hassan’s marketing campaign says will run statewide and is backed by a seven-figure advert purchase.

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The discharge of the spot — with six weeks to go till Election Day — comes because the GOP more and more spotlights crime, a problem that nationwide polls point out voters belief Republicans over Democrats. In response to nationwide advert monitoring agency AdImpact, Republican campaigns and allied teams aired 53,000 commercials on crime throughout the first three weeks of this month.

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Hassan is being challenged by Republican Senate nominee and former Military Gen. Don Bolduc, who’s making his second straight bid for the Senate. Bolduc, who ran on this 12 months’s GOP Senate major as a populist and outsider candidate, narrowly gained the Republican nomination two weeks in the past.

Bolduc served as an officer within the Laconia, New Hampshire, Police Division earlier than embarking on a 33-year profession within the army, which included 10 excursions of obligation within the Afghanistan battle. Final week, he was endorsed by the Police Benevolent Affiliation of New England.

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In Hassan’s new advert, the 2 sheriffs additionally tout the senator’s push on border safety, which is a number one concern in New Hampshire, despite the fact that it’s situated greater than 2,000 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. The Granite State’s been laborious hit by the fentanyl disaster, with loads of the damaging artificial opioids coming into the nation from throughout the southern border.

“She’s for safer borders and the sources to again it up,” Stiegler says within the spot.

And Croft notes that “Hassan voted for $8 billion in border safety.”

The senator earlier this 12 months made a well-publicized journey to the U.S.-Mexico border and vocally expressed her opposition to the transfer by President Biden’s administration to rescind a Trump-era pandemic restriction often known as Title 42, which allowed officers to quickly expel asylum seekers that crossed into the nation.

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And Hassan has focused Bolduc on each border safety and crime, spotlighting feedback he made this summer season throughout GOP major debates the place he voiced some help for reductions within the Division of Homeland Safety and abolishing or lowering the scale of the FBI.