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Trump won the 2016 Republican primary in New Hampshire but lost the state’s four electoral college votes in the general election when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, beat him by 0.3 percent of the vote. Such a small margin – fewer than 3,000 votes – makes the state a battleground.
The Democratic Governors’ Association says Gov. Chris Sununu’s budget veto is holding the state’s budget hostage for tax breaks for wealthy corporations.
“The Governor plans to attend the rally,” Sununu’s spokesman Ben Vihstadt emailed InDepthNH.org, declining to give details.
You can soon walk, run or cycle the length of the state’s Seacoast area on an abandoned rail corridor.
Just since last week’s email update, Elizabeth Warren, Julian Castro, Amy Klobuchar, Kirsten Gillibrand, Pete Buttigieg, Seth Moulton, Michael Bennet, Jay Inslee and Cory Booker have all announced new NH events that are coming up this month.
State agencies said they have cut back on travel, delayed payments and put new programs on hold as they wait for the budget impasse to be resolved between the governor and House and Senate leadership.
A federal judge granted the ACLU’s emergency motion to stop the transfer and deportation because the immigrant, Jeff Benson Beaubrun, has a still-pending court motion to reopen his immigration case, which he would not be able to partake in from Haiti.
The New Hampshire Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has asked to intervene in the case against former state senator Jeff Woodburn in connection with the state’s attempt to stop Manchester attorney Donna Brown from continuing to represent him.
Highlighting a growing epidemic among adolescents in New Hampshire, e-cigarettes are now the tobacco product most commonly used by youth in the state.