Scott Brown, former Trump ambassador, first main Republican in NH Senate race

EXCLUSIVE — Saying he needs to assist safe America’s future and ship outcomes for New Hampshire households, former ambassador and former Sen. Scott Brown on Wednesday launched a Republican Senate marketing campaign in the important thing New England swing state.

“My life has been the American story, however I fear about what America goes to appear like for my 4 grandchildren — and all of yours,” Brown stated in a marketing campaign video announcement, which was shared first nationally with Fox Information.

Brown is a former senator from neighboring Massachusetts and the 2014 GOP Senate nominee in New Hampshire who later served as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand in President Donald Trump’s first administration. He turns into the primary main Republican to leap into the 2026 battle to succeed retiring longtime Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. 

It is anticipated to be a aggressive and costly race for a seat the GOP is working to flip from blue to pink. New Hampshire, together with Georgia and Michigan, are the three prime targets for Senate Republicans as they purpose to broaden their 53-47 majority within the chamber. 

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Whereas Republicans take pleasure in whole management of New Hampshire’s state authorities, the Granite State, for practically a decade, has had an all-Democratic congressional delegation. 

And Brown took purpose at them in an interview with Fox Information Digital, arguing that “they’re simply actually out of contact with the values of New Hampshire. … I feel we are able to do higher.

“I am trying to assist save America and assist shield our New Hampshire benefit,” Brown added, referring to the state’s financial and social traits, which have lengthy made it engaging for companies and residents.

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In his marketing campaign launch video, Brown criticized former President Joe Biden and Rep. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, who at this early date seems to have cleared the sphere within the race for the Democratic Get together Senate nomination.

Pointing to what he charged was “the hovering inflation, open borders, rising crime and extreme-left insurance policies” of the Biden administration, Brown argued,  “Chris Pappas has stood with Joe Biden each step of the way in which, from opening the border to driving up the price of every little thing. It’s time for a change.”

Brown has made a handful of journeys to the nation’s capital to fulfill with GOP leaders and officers, together with Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Tim Scott of South Carolina.

And Brown advised Fox Information he is been coping with the Trump political workforce.

“I assist him. I’d love his assist,” Brown stated of his former boss, whom he famous he voted for within the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential elections.

In his announcement video, he added that “President Trump is combating every single day to proper the ship.”

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Pointing to the navy strike the president launched on Iran’s nuclear websites over the weekend weekend, Brown stated Trump’s determination was “sensible, and he ought to be counseled.” 

And he criticized Pappas for saying in a press release, “I’m monitoring the state of affairs in Iran carefully.”

“There’s nothing to observe. The president did the precise factor,” Brown argued.

On the eve of Brown’s marketing campaign launch, the New Hampshire Democratic Get together pilloried Brown as a “Trump loyalist” and charged that he “has a decade-long, excessive report on abortion.”

Whereas Brown is the primary main Republican within the race, he might not have the GOP main area to himself.

Republican businessman and legal professional Phil Taub, greatest recognized for his Swim with a Mission charity supporting veterans, is contemplating a run. Among the many others mulling a bid are state Sen. Dan Innis and businessman Walter McFarlane.

Brown made headlines in 2010 as a state senator in blue state Massachusetts when he gained a particular U.S. Senate election to serve the rest of the time period of the late longtime Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy. 

After dropping re-election in 2012 to Elizabeth Warren, Brown ultimately moved to New Hampshire, the state the place he had spent the primary years of his childhood and the place his household had roots relationship again to the colonial period. He launched a Senate marketing campaign months later and narrowly misplaced to Shaheen within the 2014 election.

After internet hosting practically all of the Republican presidential candidates within the 2016 cycle at talking occasions he referred to as “No BS yard BBQs,” Brown ultimately endorsed Trump within the weeks forward of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation main. After Trump was elected president, he nominated Brown as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, the place the previous senator served for 4 years.

Returning to New Hampshire on the finish of the primary Trump administration, Brown supported his spouse Gail, a former tv information reporter and anchor, as she ran for Congress in 2022. 

And the Browns additionally stayed politically energetic in different methods, as soon as once more internet hosting most of the Republican presidential candidates at their “Yard BBQs” throughout the 2024 presidential cycle.

Requested in Might 2023 if he’d think about one other Senate run, Brown advised Fox Information Digital, “After all.”

Brown jumped in late within the 2014 marketing campaign, simply seven months earlier than Election Day.

This time round, the 65-year-old Brown, who competed in 9 triathlons final 12 months and who, on common, performs round 40–50 gigs a 12 months as lead singer and guitarist with the rock band Scott Brown and the Diplomats, is giving himself loads of political runway. 

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Brown has been crisscrossing New Hampshire since late final 12 months, assembly with Republican and conservative teams.

“It is totally different than after I ran earlier than,,” Brown advised Fox Information. “I’ve now had the chance to go to locations that, fairly frankly, I did not have time to do [in his 2014 campaign]. I have been assembly with individuals, assembly with all people.”