Don Bolduc walked back his claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump days after clinching the Republican nomination in the New Hampshire Senate race.
Bolduc has repeated conspiratorial claims that President Joe Biden illegitimately came to power but has started to walk back his claims as he faces a tough general election. To win the Senate seat, he will have to defeat incumbent Democrat Maggie Hassan, who has a massive fundraising advantage.
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“We live and learn, right? And I’ve done a lot of research on this, spent the last couple of weeks talking to Granite Staters all over the state from every party,” Bolduc said on America’s Newsroom on Fox News Thursday morning. “And I have come to the conclusion that — and I want to be definitive on this — the election was not stolen. Was there fraud? Yes.”
“Is that a concern of Granite Staters all over the state? Yes, there is. Is there a responsibility of public servants in elected positions to ensure that our citizens have faith in their voting system? Yes. But elections have consequences. Unfortunately, President Biden is the legitimate president of this country.”
Bolduc signed an open letter from retired military generals and admirals in May 2021 calling for election oversight from the FBI and Supreme Court “when election irregularities are surfaced and not ignore them as was done in 2020.”
Democrats meddled in the Republican primary, trying to boost Bolduc, seeing him as an easier opponent for Hassan.
A super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ran attack ads against the more moderate Republican, state Sen. Chuck Morse, portraying him as tied to the Washington, D.C., establishment.
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Bolduc also claimed that New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu is a “Chinese Communist sympathizer” before attempting to walk back the accusation. Sununu refused to endorse him in the primary but said he would consider backing him in the general election.
“He’s not a serious candidate. He’s really not,” Sununu said in August. “If he were the nominee, I have no doubt we would have a much harder time trying to win that seat back. So I don’t take him seriously as a candidate. I don’t think most people do.”
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has rated New Hampshire’s general election as “leans Democrat.”
