CONCORD, N.H. — Scott Brown, a Republican who as soon as represented Massachusetts within the U.S. Senate, introduced his second bid Wednesday for the New Hampshire Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Jeanne Shaheen subsequent 12 months.
Brown, 65, was born on the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and moved to Massachusetts as a toddler. After a number of phrases within the state Legislature, he won a special election in 2010 for the U.S. Senate seat that had been held for many years by Edward Kennedy.
He misplaced to Democrat Elizabeth Warren in 2012. He then moved to New Hampshire, the place he unsuccessfully challenged Shaheen for the Senate in 2014. Shaheen, now serving her third time period within the Senate, introduced in March she would not seek reelection in 2026.
Brown additionally served as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa throughout President Donald Trump’s first administration and briefly as dean of New England Law in Boston.
He first introduced he was running to WMUR-TV.
“We have been blessed by two nice governors, Chris Sununu and Kelly Ayotte,” Brown mentioned in a marketing campaign announcement video of the previous and present Republican leaders. “However in Washington, we’ve not been represented by the appropriate folks.”
New Hampshire has an all-Democrat congressional delegation, with four-term Congressman Chris Pappas, 44, announcing his candidacy for the Senate seat in April.
Brown mentioned in his video that Pappas “has stood with Joe Biden as he opened the border, drove up the price of all the things, and made life simply merely unaffordable.”
Pappas responded in an announcement following Brown’s announcement.
He mentioned Brown “stands with company particular pursuits, helps efforts to strip away well being care protection from tens of hundreds of Granite Staters, and backs President Trump’s reckless tariffs that New Hampshire small companies are talking out in opposition to each single day.”
Brown introduced his candidacy after Sununu declined to run. The favored governor decided not to seek a fifth, two-year time period final 12 months.
