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The New York Metropolis mayoral race is having a ripple impact in races all through the nation, together with within the open 2026 New Hampshire Senate race.
Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, who’s now looking for the Republican nomination within the Granite State, took a shot at Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani and his former opponent, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, for his or her joint press convention earlier this week, the place she stated that Mamdani is “the man who’s strolling the stroll proper now.”
“Let’s be crystal clear. So, New York is our monetary capital of the world. It is an incredible metropolis. I used to stay there,” Bown stated in an interview with Fox Information Digital.
“You look who’s supporting them, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, it is the social gathering of the acute left who need open border sanctuary cities,” he added.
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Former Sen. Scott Brown is interviewed by Fox Information Digital on July 4, 2025, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox Information )
“I’ve tied Chris Pappas in as a result of when requested straight whether or not he helps him or not, he would not reply the query. And it is clear by his votes that he principally agrees with AOC and Bernie Sanders on all of the issues we talked about, and that is thus far out of contact with the folks of New Hampshire,” he stated of his possible Democratic opponent, Rep. Chris Pappas.
Brown ran a digital advert in June dubbed “Comrade Chris” depicting Pappas alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani.
“Scott Brown is pathetic when it comes to how he is operating this marketing campaign,” Pappas stated. “People right here in New Hampshire know that I am a New Hampshire Democrat. I am somebody who works throughout the aisle,” Pappas instructed WMUR when requested if he desires to see Mamdani win and about being tied to the far left mayoral candidate. “The actual fact is, I don’t know what’s gonna go on in New York Metropolis. What I’m centered on is what’s occurring proper right here in New Hampshire.”
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Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., talks to members of the press after his midterm victory throughout an election evening watch social gathering on the Puritan Convention Heart on Nov. 8, 2022, in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Getty Photographs)
“Republicans have spent tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} operating assault adverts towards me by means of the years attempting to color me as somebody that I’m not,” the Democrat stated in a current interview with Fox Information Digital.
“We’ve the primary within the nation main, and if this man wins (the mayor’s race), then he can be up right here campaigning for all these different Democrats, and they are going to be pushed in so excessive, thus far to the left, that the folks in New Hampshire will see proper by means of it,” he stated of Mamdani. “They are not looking for his model of socialism and extremism, antisemitism, bigotry pushed to New Hampshire,” Brown added.
“However the distinction between (Warren) and Chris Pappas is that she believes what she believes, and he or she’ll let . Whenever you ask Chris Pappas a query about him or different insurance policies, the place do you stand on clean (…) he is (provides) this huge convoluted reply,” Brown stated.
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New York Metropolis Democratic Get together mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is joined on the marketing campaign path by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, on Aug. 4, 2025, in New York Metropolis. (Fox 5 New York)
“He cannot reply a query, and he does not have sturdy beliefs on points. He is principally a follower. He follows the management,” he added.
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In 2010, Brown grew to become the primary Republican senator Massachusetts had in a long time. He instructed Fox Information Digital this week that “the power seems like 2010,” harkening again to when he received the particular election on the time. The win was thought of a serious early success of the Tea Get together motion. He later misplaced to Warren within the 2012 election.
Cameron Arcand is a politics author at Fox Information Digital in Washington D.C. Story ideas may be despatched to Cameron.Arcand@Fox.com and on Twitter: @cameron_arcand
