Trump Lashes Out at Bolduc, Claims He Lost New Hampshire Senate Race Because He Ditched Stolen-Election Narrative

Former president Donald Trump ripped into Republican Don Bolduc following his failed senate bid against Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan Tuesday night.

Trump argued in the post that Bolduc’s decision to abandon the stolen election narrative once he made it out of the Republican primary cost him in the general election.

“Don Bolduc was a very nice guy, but he lost tonight when he disavowed, after his big primary win, his long-standing stance on Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Primary…Had he stayed strong and true, he would have won, easily,” Trump wrote on his social-media platform, Truth Social, Tuesday night.

Bolduc, a retired Army general, insisted that the 2020 election had been stolen from Trump during his primary against establishment candidate Chuck Morse. In August, Bolduc explained during a debate: “I signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying that Donald Trump won the election and, damn it, I stand by [it].”

Following his victory over Morse, who had the backing of Mitch McConnell’s PAC to the tune of nearly $5 million, Bolduc backed away from election fraud claims.

However, the last-ditch effort to moderate and grab votes from Hassan proved lackluster. With 85 percent of the votes counted as of Wednesday morning, Hassan won her reelection bid by a comfortable ten percentage point margin.

Democrats had spied an opportunity during New Hampshire’s Republican primaries to support Bolduc, believing that he would present less of an electoral threat than the more moderate Morse.

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s PAC spent $3.1 million to bolster Bolduc leading up to the midterms. Their fundraising included a MAGA-style advertisement labeling Morse a puppet of the “McConnell establishment.”

“Chuck Morse, another sleazy politician,” the ad declared.

That strategy appears to have worked out well for the Democrats in retrospect.

Trump-backed candidates in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Georgia have fared poorly thus far. Despite the former president’s endorsements and campaigning, core allies such as Arizona and Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial and Senate candidates are all on track to lose.