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Dan Innis kicks off GOP bid for U.S. Senate in 2026
Declaring himself the 'best choice for New Hampshire,' three-term state Sen. Dan Innis, R-Bradford, is leaving a safe seat to challenge three-time nominee Scott Brown and become the GOP standard bearer for an open U.S. Senate seat in 2026. State Sen. Dan Innis launches bid for U.S. Senate Three-term State Sen. Dan Innis, R-Bradford, said his poor upbringing in rural Ohio helped qualify him as a candidate for the vacant, U.S. Senate seat in New Hampshire in 2026. The 63-year-old business professor and farmer had been climbing the pecking order in the Senate, chairing the powerful Commerce Committee, holding the number two post on both the Senate Finance and Education Finance panels. If Innis were to win the nomination, it would likely guarantee New Hampshire would elect in November 2026 the first openly-gay man to the U.S. Senate. Democratic candidate and all-but-inevitable nominee U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas was New Hampshire's first openly gay person elected to federal office in 2018. Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay U.S. senator in 2012. A Columbus, Ohio native, Innis said he grew up poor in the southeastern city of Lancaster that had nine factories employing thousands that all closed during his youth. 'I watched my hometown literally die and become a small meth capital, it was so hard to watch,' Innis said in an interview. "This is what President (Donald) Trump is trying to turn around, to bring back manufacturing." A 'Pell Grants kid' who went to college on government grants and loans, Innis received undergraduate degrees at Ohio University and Miami University of Ohio before getting his doctorate in marketing and logistics from Ohio State University. 'Chris Pappas went to Harvard. I went to public universities ties. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and I was born with a wooden spoon in my hand,' Innis said on the "Good Morning New Hampshire" program with Jack Heath. The Pappas family has for three generations owned the popular Puritan Backroom Restaurant in Manchester. Likely speaking about Brown as well, Innis said voters are looking for fresh faces with new ideas. 'I think it's time we send some new voices to Washington,' Innis said. 'We have been sending four Democrats every cycle to Washington, D.C. and most of them have lost touch with who we are in New Hampshire.' Brown won a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts before Democrat Elizabeth Warren unseated him in 2012. A native of Portsmouth, N.H., Brown moved back to Rye full time after his loss. Brown was the GOP Senate nominee in 2014, losing to incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, whose retirement next year will leave that seat open. 'I think it's just a matter of contrasting our background and our experience,' Innis said of Brown who he admired as someone who survived a 'rough upbringing.' 'Scott has been a U.S. senator from Massachusetts; I have been a state senator from New Hampshire," Innis said. "That's one of the big differences between us.' Came to N.H. 18 years ago to teach Another prominent Republican considering his own Senate primary run is Phil Taub of Bedford, a Navy Seal and co-founder of the Swim With a Mission charity fundraiser. "We need a strong candidate to go forward in this race, and I think that out of the three of us, I am the best choice for New Hampshire," Innis said. Innis has taught marketing and hospitality management for 18 years at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. State Sen. Dan Innis, R-Bradford, launches 2026 U.S. Senate primary campaign State Sen. Dan Innis, R-Bradford, shown at his Trails End Farm with one of his wagyu cattle. He also raises chickens and goats with his partner, Spencer. He and his partner, Spencer, operate Trails End Farm in Bradford that raises 250 chickens, 27 wagyu cattle and 13 goats. 'I am all about delivering value to the customer,' said Innis who if he were in the Senate would vote for the $9 billion spending cuts bill that includes erasing taxpayer support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 'With the proliferation of media we have out there does the government need to be supporting broadcasting that tends to be biased?' Innis asked rhetorically. He pushed back on the congressional Democrat talking point that the Trump 'big beautiful bill' when fully implemented in a few years will take away health care for millions on Medicaid. 'There are such crazy arguments being made. They don't have a message right now, they are trying to get people scared but voters are smart,' Innis said. 'I don't know where else in the world other than Washington, D.C. where a major increase in spending is called a cut,' Innis said. Brown posted a statement on X that he welcomed a contested primary. 'Unlike the Democrats and their coronation process, New Hampshire Republicans take the primary process seriously. I intend to campaign the New Hampshire way and look forward to a rigorous debate of the issues so that voters can choose the candidate with the experience, credentials and vision to take the fight to Chris Pappas next fall,' Brown said. 'Without a battle tested candidate capable of standing up to the well-financed Democratic machine, we will get stuck with Chris Pappas in the Senate for the next 30 years voting against our priorities on everything from immigration, energy, crime, men in women's sports and No Tax On Tips.' But Ray Buckley, chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, predicted this GOP primary fight will be costly. 'The 2026 New Hampshire Republican Senate primary is off to the races and is shaping up to be a messy, chaotic, and turbulent primary with each candidate running to the far-right on every issue to win Donald Trump's approval.' 'Dan Innis is a far-right extremist who will do anything to get Donald Trump's endorsement. Innis and his opponent will be held accountable for the GOP's toxic plan that will rip health care from thousands of Granite Staters and raise costs on families and small businesses.' "Dan Innis knows that Chris Pappas is out-of-touch with the day-to-day needs of Granite Staters, and that in 2026 New Hampshire will finally elect a Republican U.S. Senator that will fight to lower taxes and keep New Hampshire safe," Puglia said. Innis said he'd welcome Trump's endorsement and gave the President high marks since voters returned him to the White House last November. 'He is doing one heck of a good job getting his program implemented,' Innis added. klandrigan@
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12-07-2025
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'Comrade Chris' – Republicans aim to anchor Mamdani to Democrats across the country
GILSUM, N.H. – Republicans aren't wasting an opportunity to make democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani a cudgel to bash Democrats across the country. Mamdani's stunning mayoral primary victory in the nation's most populous city rocked the political world, adding fuel to an already volatile election season. Republicans have been relentless in trying to anchor Mamdani to Democrats across the country who are running in competitive races in elections this year and in next year's midterms. That's the case in New Hampshire, in the high-profile 2026 race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. Republican candidate and former Sen. Scott Brown went up this week with a digital ad that edits a picture of Rep. Chris Pappas, the Democratic candidate in the race, alongside photos of Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive rock star who backed Mamdani. Trump Argues Nyc Faces Dire Consequences If 'Communist' Mamdani Becomes Mayor Read On The Fox News App The caption on the ad reads "Comrade Chris." Pappas, speaking with Fox News Friday on the campaign trail as he toured W.S. Badger, a natural and organic skincare and sunscreen company in this southwestern New Hampshire town, said, "Republicans have spent tens of millions of dollars running attack ads against me through the years trying to paint me as someone that I'm not." "People know me. They know the work that I've been doing. They know that I'm one of the most bipartisan members of the House of Representatives because I believe in solving problems and getting things done," Pappas said. "I'm a New Hampshire Democrat. I'm proud of my track record in Congress." The Plot To Stop Mamdani: Democrats Scramble To Prevent Far-left Takeover In Nyc Pappas was joined on the campaign trail by longtime Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who spent plenty of time in New Hampshire ahead of her third-place finish in the state's 2020 Democratic presidential primary. "It's about New Hampshire. They're going to do this in all these races across the country. They try to attach people. People have never even met some of these people. And they keep doing it," Klobuchar told Fox News when asked about the Republican ad anchoring Mamdani to Pappas. "To me this is about what's going on for the people of this state." The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) was one of the first out of the gate to capitalize on Mamdani's leftward lurch, firing off an email release minutes after his victory that claimed, "the new face of the Democrat Party just dropped, and it's straight out of a socialist nightmare." Aiming to tie House Democrats to Mamdani, NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella argued that "every vulnerable House Democrat will own him, and every Democrat running in a primary will fear him." The National Republican Senatorial Campaign (NRSC) also quickly got into the game, tying Pappas and Abdul El-Sayed – one of the contenders for the Democratic Senate nomination in battleground Michigan – to Mamdani. No surprise – the Republican attacks have even come from President Donald Trump, who, since Mamdani's victory two weeks ago, has repeatedly claimed that the 33-year-old Ugandan-born state assemblyman from the New York City borough of Queens is a "communist." Mamdani, who convincingly topped former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates to capture the Democratic mayoral nomination and take a big step toward becoming the city's first Muslim mayor, is giving Republicans plenty of ammunition. He's proposed eliminating fares to ride New York City's vast bus system, making CUNY (City University of New York) "tuition-free," freezing rents on municipal housing, offering "free childcare" for children up to age 5, and setting up government-run grocery stores. Resurfaced Mamdani Photo Sparks Social Media Firestorm Also fueling the Republican attacks are recent news items that have gone viral. They include a 2020 photo Mamdani posted online that shows him flipping off a statue of Christopher Columbus, stories about comments Mamdani made last December, when he said as mayor he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his recent comments in a cable news interview that "I have many critiques of capitalism." "The Democratic Party's trying to convince people that the tail is not wagging the dog, and they don't answer to the more extreme elements of their party," veteran Republican strategist Colin Reed told Fox News. "Now, that entire effort is undercut by a socialist winning handily in a bellwether election to determine who's going to run America's largest city." "It's a messaging nightmare that's going to unfold in real time from now until the midterms," said Reed, who is a top political advisor to Brown. Mamdani Lands Endorsement Of Top Cuomo Backer Veteran political scientist Wayne Lesperance told Fox News that "the primary challenge for Democrats regarding Mamdani's candidacy is not his policy approach. The challenge is his party identification as a democratic socialist." "If there's any doubt about the negative implications of adding the word socialist to Mamdani's party affiliation, one need only peruse the national coverage whose focus has been on his party and the absence of party leadership to rush to his defense or offer endorsements," Lesperance, the president of New England College, said. But Democrats question the effectiveness of the GOP push. They argue that there's a world of difference between heavily blue New York City, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a roughly six-to-one margin, and some key battleground states and swing districts across the country. Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee told reporters the day after Mamdani's victory that "I love New York, but it's a very liberal place and I don't know that you can necessarily apply that to the rest of the country." Pappas campaign communications adviser Collin Gately pointed to the ad from the Brown campaign and said, "Granite Staters trust Chris and will see through these attacks." And veteran Democratic strategist Joe Caiazzo cautioned, "I wouldn't read too much into this." Caiazzo, a veteran of Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, argued that "Republicans are making too much out of this."Original article source: 'Comrade Chris' – Republicans aim to anchor Mamdani to Democrats across the country
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12-07-2025
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'Comrade Chris' – Republicans aim to anchor Mamdani to Democrats across the country
GILSUM, N.H. – Republicans aren't wasting an opportunity to make democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani a cudgel to bash Democrats across the country. Mamdani's stunning mayoral primary victory in the nation's most populous city rocked the political world, adding fuel to an already volatile election season. Republicans have been relentless in trying to anchor Mamdani to Democrats across the country who are running in competitive races in elections this year and in next year's midterms. That's the case in New Hampshire, in the high-profile 2026 race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. Republican candidate and former Sen. Scott Brown went up this week with a digital ad that edits a picture of Rep. Chris Pappas, the Democratic candidate in the race, alongside photos of Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive rock star who backed Mamdani. The caption on the ad reads "Comrade Chris." Pappas, speaking with Fox News Friday on the campaign trail as he toured W.S. Badger, a natural and organic skincare and sunscreen company in this southwestern New Hampshire town, said, "Republicans have spent tens of millions of dollars running attack ads against me through the years trying to paint me as someone that I'm not." "People know me. They know the work that I've been doing. They know that I'm one of the most bipartisan members of the House of Representatives because I believe in solving problems and getting things done," Pappas said. "I'm a New Hampshire Democrat. I'm proud of my track record in Congress." Pappas was joined on the campaign trail by longtime Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who spent plenty of time in New Hampshire ahead of her third-place finish in the state's 2020 Democratic presidential primary. "It's about New Hampshire. They're going to do this in all these races across the country. They try to attach people. People have never even met some of these people. And they keep doing it," Klobuchar told Fox News when asked about the Republican ad anchoring Mamdani to Pappas. "To me this is about what's going on for the people of this state." The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) was one of the first out of the gate to capitalize on Mamdani's leftward lurch, firing off an email release minutes after his victory that claimed, "the new face of the Democrat Party just dropped, and it's straight out of a socialist nightmare." Aiming to tie House Democrats to Mamdani, NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella argued that "every vulnerable House Democrat will own him, and every Democrat running in a primary will fear him." The National Republican Senatorial Campaign (NRSC) also quickly got into the game, tying Pappas and Abdul El-Sayed – one of the contenders for the Democratic Senate nomination in battleground Michigan – to Mamdani. No surprise – the Republican attacks have even come from President Donald Trump, who, since Mamdani's victory two weeks ago, has repeatedly claimed that the 33-year-old Ugandan-born state assemblyman from the New York City borough of Queens is a "communist." Mamdani, who convincingly topped former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates to capture the Democratic mayoral nomination and take a big step toward becoming the city's first Muslim mayor, is giving Republicans plenty of ammunition. He's proposed eliminating fares to ride New York City's vast bus system, making CUNY (City University of New York) "tuition-free," freezing rents on municipal housing, offering "free childcare" for children up to age 5, and setting up government-run grocery stores. Also fueling the Republican attacks are recent news items that have gone viral. They include a 2020 photo Mamdani posted online that shows him flipping off a statue of Christopher Columbus, stories about comments Mamdani made last December, when he said as mayor he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his recent comments in a cable news interview that "I have many critiques of capitalism." "The Democratic Party's trying to convince people that the tail is not wagging the dog, and they don't answer to the more extreme elements of their party," veteran Republican strategist Colin Reed told Fox News. "Now, that entire effort is undercut by a socialist winning handily in a bellwether election to determine who's going to run America's largest city." "It's a messaging nightmare that's going to unfold in real time from now until the midterms," said Reed, who is a top political advisor to Brown. Veteran political scientist Wayne Lesperance told Fox News that "the primary challenge for Democrats regarding Mamdani's candidacy is not his policy approach. The challenge is his party identification as a democratic socialist." "If there's any doubt about the negative implications of adding the word socialist to Mamdani's party affiliation, one need only peruse the national coverage whose focus has been on his party and the absence of party leadership to rush to his defense or offer endorsements," Lesperance, the president of New England College, said. But Democrats question the effectiveness of the GOP push. They argue that there's a world of difference between heavily blue New York City, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a roughly six-to-one margin, and some key battleground states and swing districts across the country. Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee told reporters the day after Mamdani's victory that "I love New York, but it's a very liberal place and I don't know that you can necessarily apply that to the rest of the country." Pappas campaign communications adviser Collin Gately pointed to the ad from the Brown campaign and said, "Granite Staters trust Chris and will see through these attacks." And veteran Democratic strategist Joe Caiazzo cautioned, "I wouldn't read too much into this." Caiazzo, a veteran of Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, argued that "Republicans are making too much out of this."
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09-07-2025
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Dems say their increasingly 'frustrated' base is mobilized in the fight against Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'
MANCHESTER, N.H. – The all-Democrat congressional delegation in swing state New Hampshire is teaming up to target President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that he signed into law. "The big beautiful betrayal of the American people" is how longtime Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the dean of the delegation, described the sweeping Republican-crafted domestic policy package. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., charged that the tax cuts and spending measure, which passed the House and Senate last week by razor-thin margins along nearly party-line votes in the GOP-controlled chambers, was "immoral, irrational, and impractical." Rep. Chris Pappas, who's running in next year's midterm elections in the race to succeed the retiring Shaheen, argued that the bill is "a disaster for the American people." Political Fight Over 'Big Beautiful Bill' Shifts To Campaign Trail First-term Rep. Maggie Goodlander claimed that "this bill is going to jack up the cost of living for tens of thousands of people across this state." Read On The Fox News App The new law is stuffed full of Trump's 2024 campaign trail promises and second-term priorities on tax cuts, immigration, defense, energy and the debt limit. It includes extending his signature 2017 tax cuts and eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay. The measure also provides billions for border security and codifies the president's controversial immigration crackdown. What's Actually In Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' However, the $3.4 trillion legislative package is also projected to surge the national debt by $4 trillion over the next decade. Additionally, the legislation also restructures Medicaid – the nearly 60-year-old federal program that provides health coverage to roughly 71 million low-income Americans. The changes to Medicaid, as well as cuts to food stamps, another one of the nation's major safety net programs, were drafted in part as an offset to pay for extending Trump's tax cuts. The measure includes a slew of new rules and regulations, including work requirements for many of those seeking Medicaid coverage. For weeks, Democrats have been blasting Republicans over the Medicaid and social safety net cuts. "This is a big bill, and it's got a lot of really big provisions that are going to cause even more pain to people in our state who are already struggling with the high cost of living," Goodlander said in a Fox News Digital interview. She charged that "it includes the biggest cuts to health care in American history" in order "to pay for another big tax cut for people who don't need it." The delegation teamed up on Tuesday in New Hampshire's largest city at Waypoint, which notes that it's the state's longest-running home and community-based care charitable organization. Waypoint officials noted that roughly three-quarters of the people they service are on Medicaid. Head Here For The Latest Fox News Polling Hassan said voters in New Hampshire are "mobilized" against the measure. "The calls are coming in overwhelmingly against this bill to our offices," the senator said. "The outreach to our office has come from people from all political perspectives, people who self-identify as a Republican or a Trump voter or an independent or a Democrat." However, with Republicans in control of the White House, the House and the Senate, congressional Democrats have little power or leverage to fight Trump's second-term agenda. That is increasingly frustrating the Democrats' base. "I don't know if fighting dirty is the term, but certainly people are getting frustrated," a New Hampshire-based progressive activist told Fox News Digital. The activist, who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, urged the state's all Democrat congressional delegation to "introduce a thousand floor amendments, throw sand in the gears, do something, be more outspoken." Another Granite State-based activist, who also asked for anonymity, said that many progressives feel they "are not being serviced by the current Democratic Party." "There is no hope for these people unless we see candidates emerge in primaries that represent universal free healthcare and the other slate of issues that people associate with Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaigns," the activist said. How Much The 'Big Beautiful Bill' Will Cut Your Taxes Republicans have blasted Democrats for voting against the measure, as they spotlight the tax cuts in the package. The New Hampshire Republican Party has targeted the delegation, and Pappas in particular, for their votes. "New Hampshire liberal Chris Pappas just voted for the largest tax hike in American history," the state party charged in a social media post. However, Pappas told Fox News last week that "I support targeted tax cuts for working people, for our small businesses and to make sure we are targeting that relief to the people that need it, not to billionaires, to the biggest corporations." A memo from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), released minutes after the final House passage of the bill last Thursday, argued that "every Democrat voted to hurt working families and to protect the status quo." The NRCC, which is the campaign arm of the House GOP, emphasized that "House Republicans will be relentless in making this vote the defining issue of 2026." That is fine with congressional Democrats, who aim to win back the House majority next year. Goodlander, who is up for a second two-year congressional term in next year's midterms, told Fox News "the bottom line is this bill is definitely going to be on the ballot in 2026, and it's going to be a central focus of the work I'm doing, because the crisis that we're up against is a cost crisis, and this bill is going to jack up costs across the board."Original article source: Dems say their increasingly 'frustrated' base is mobilized in the fight against Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'
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09-07-2025
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Dems say their increasingly 'frustrated' base is mobilized in the fight against Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'
MANCHESTER, N.H. – The all-Democrat congressional delegation in swing state New Hampshire is teaming up to target President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that he signed into law. "The big beautiful betrayal of the American people" is how longtime Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the dean of the delegation, described the sweeping Republican-crafted domestic policy package. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., charged that the tax cuts and spending measure, which passed the House and Senate last week by razor-thin margins along nearly party-line votes in the GOP-controlled chambers, was "immoral, irrational, and impractical." Rep. Chris Pappas, who's running in next year's midterm elections in the race to succeed the retiring Shaheen, argued that the bill is "a disaster for the American people." First-term Rep. Maggie Goodlander claimed that "this bill is going to jack up the cost of living for tens of thousands of people across this state." The new law is stuffed full of Trump's 2024 campaign trail promises and second-term priorities on tax cuts, immigration, defense, energy and the debt limit. It includes extending his signature 2017 tax cuts and eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay. The measure also provides billions for border security and codifies the president's controversial immigration crackdown. However, the $3.4 trillion legislative package is also projected to surge the national debt by $4 trillion over the next decade. Additionally, the legislation also restructures Medicaid – the nearly 60-year-old federal program that provides health coverage to roughly 71 million low-income Americans. The changes to Medicaid, as well as cuts to food stamps, another one of the nation's major safety net programs, were drafted in part as an offset to pay for extending Trump's tax cuts. The measure includes a slew of new rules and regulations, including work requirements for many of those seeking Medicaid coverage. For weeks, Democrats have been blasting Republicans over the Medicaid and social safety net cuts. "This is a big bill, and it's got a lot of really big provisions that are going to cause even more pain to people in our state who are already struggling with the high cost of living," Goodlander said in a Fox News Digital interview. She charged that "it includes the biggest cuts to health care in American history" in order "to pay for another big tax cut for people who don't need it." The delegation teamed up on Tuesday in New Hampshire's largest city at Waypoint, which notes that it's the state's longest-running home and community-based care charitable organization. Waypoint officials noted that roughly three-quarters of the people they service are on Medicaid. Hassan said voters in New Hampshire are "mobilized" against the measure. "The calls are coming in overwhelmingly against this bill to our offices," the senator said. "The outreach to our office has come from people from all political perspectives, people who self-identify as a Republican or a Trump voter or an independent or a Democrat." However, with Republicans in control of the White House, the House and the Senate, congressional Democrats have little power or leverage to fight Trump's second-term agenda. That is increasingly frustrating the Democrats' base. "I don't know if fighting dirty is the term, but certainly people are getting frustrated," a New Hampshire-based progressive activist told Fox News Digital. The activist, who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, urged the state's all Democrat congressional delegation to "introduce a thousand floor amendments, throw sand in the gears, do something, be more outspoken." Another Granite State-based activist, who also asked for anonymity, said that many progressives feel they "are not being serviced by the current Democratic Party." "There is no hope for these people unless we see candidates emerge in primaries that represent universal free healthcare and the other slate of issues that people associate with Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaigns," the activist said. Republicans have blasted Democrats for voting against the measure, as they spotlight the tax cuts in the package. The New Hampshire Republican Party has targeted the delegation, and Pappas in particular, for their votes. "New Hampshire liberal Chris Pappas just voted for the largest tax hike in American history," the state party charged in a social media post. However, Pappas told Fox News last week that "I support targeted tax cuts for working people, for our small businesses and to make sure we are targeting that relief to the people that need it, not to billionaires, to the biggest corporations." A memo from the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), released minutes after the final House passage of the bill last Thursday, argued that "every Democrat voted to hurt working families and to protect the status quo." The NRCC, which is the campaign arm of the House GOP, emphasized that "House Republicans will be relentless in making this vote the defining issue of 2026." That is fine with congressional Democrats, who aim to win back the House majority next year. Goodlander, who is up for a second two-year congressional term in next year's midterms, told Fox News "the bottom line is this bill is definitely going to be on the ballot in 2026, and it's going to be a central focus of the work I'm doing, because the crisis that we're up against is a cost crisis, and this bill is going to jack up costs across the board."
