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When New Hampshire Public Radio ran a story on Thursday reporting GOP U.S. Senate candidate Gen. Don Bolduc’s sudden reversal on the 2020 election, its headline read, “Bolduc Abandons False Claims of Stolen Election, Days After GOP Senate Primary Win.”
“False claims” is strong language for journalists writing a news story. At WMUR, news reports on Republicans questioning the 2020 results used the phrase “unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud.” At The Concord Monitor and Associated Press, their news coverage — not 0pinion — uses the word “lies” to describe comments by some GOP politicians regarding 2020.
So, how will those news outlets cover the claims being made by Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan and Rep. Chris Pappas about their opponents’ position on abortion?
Since (at least) the first debates of the GOP primary cycle, hosted by NHJournal, both and First District Republican nominee Karoline Leavitt have repeatedly said they support states making abortion laws for themselves and oppose a national abortion law.
And yet Hassan and Pappas are both spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads claiming the opposite.
“If Karoline Leavitt gets to Congress, she’ll pass a nationwide abortion ban even in cases of rape, incest or life of the mother,” Pappas’ campaign ad claims. According to the ad, the source of the claim is a May 10, 2022 interview with radio host Jack Heath.
In fact, Leavitt said the opposite in the interview.
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