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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Bolduc raises unsubstantiated possibility of 2022 election impropriety ahead of New Hampshire Senate contest - CNN

CNN —

New Hampshire Senate nominee Don Bolduc, a Republican who has pushed the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen, raised the unsubstantiated prospect that the same could happen in 2022 during an interview with a radio host in New Hampshire on Monday.

Bolduc’s comments highlight the fine line he is attempting to walk on false 2020 election claims as he faces Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in what Republicans hoped would be a pickup opportunity for the party in a state President Joe Biden won by 7 points in 2020.

Throughout the Republican primary, Bolduc was one of the staunchest purveyors of the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. But days after he won his party’s nomination and faced a broader, less conservative electorate, he told Fox News he had changed his position and had “come to the conclusion… the election was not stolen.” The shift riled his conservative base and Bolduc waffled on the issue in the subsequent weeks.

On Monday, Bolduc went a step further by raising the prospect that some of the same issues that led Republicans to falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen could happen in 2022.

“And as long as we have this type of fraud and irregularities that are susceptible to our system across this country, we are going to be in big trouble,” Bolduc told radio host Jeff Kuhner. “So, it’s less about whether we focus on 2020 stolen election and how we focus on how we’re going to win in 2022 and don’t let it...



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