Ted Cruz returning to New Hampshire to assist Leavitt in GOP major in essential Home race

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is heading to New Hampshire subsequent week on a 2022 mission that may also spark extra hypothesis about his nationwide ambitions in 2024.

Cruz will journey to the essential common election battleground state to marketing campaign with Republican candidate Karoline Leavitt, in an announcement that was shared first with Fox Information on Saturday. The get-out-the-vote rally shall be held Thursday night at American Legion Publish 27 in Londonderry, New Hampshire. 

Leavitt, a 25-year-old veteran of former President Donald Trump’s White Home press store, is at the moment one of many co-front-runners within the Sept. 13 Republican major in New Hampshire’s First Congressional District, which has lengthy been a extremely contested swing Home district. 

The seat is at the moment held by two-term Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, whom Republicans view as susceptible amid a political local weather that for the previous 12 months had favored the GOP. Republicans want a internet acquire of simply 5 seats in November’s midterms to again the Home majority they misplaced within the 2018 elections.

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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz delivers speech on the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC), in Dallas, Texas.
(Fox Information Picture/Joshua Comins)

“Senator Ted Cruz is among the biggest champions of the Structure and our God-given freedoms on Capitol Hill. I’m grateful for his assist, and I sit up for welcoming him again to the Stay Free or Die State — as we work to defeat the Institution on September thirteenth,” Leavitt instructed Fox Information in a press release.

Cruz, in endorsing Leavitt final October, stated in a press release on the time that “Karoline is a fighter who shares our core values, will carry new management to D.C. and assist conservatives stand as much as the Swamp.”

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Leavitt — a New Hampshire native who following the tip of the Trump administration briefly labored for GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, who’s now the quantity three rating Home Republican — is a part of a Republican major subject that additionally contains Matt Mowers, a former New Hampshire GOP government director who labored on Trump’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign and served within the State Division in the course of the Trump administration. Mowers captured the 2020 congressional nomination within the district earlier than dropping to Pappas by 5 factors within the common election.

Republican congressional candidate Karoline Leavitt marches in a parade in Gilford, New Hampshire on August 27, 2022
(Karoline Leavitt congressional marketing campaign)

The latest ballot within the race — a College of New Hampshire Granite State survey performed August 25-29 — indicated Mowers at 26% and Leavitt at 24% amongst possible Republican major voters. 

Gail Huff Brown — a former longtime TV information reporter and spouse of former Republican Sen. Scott Brown, who served as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand in the course of the Trump administration — stood at at 16% within the ballot. Former state senator and government councilor Russell Prescott and state Rep. Tim Baxter registered at 4%, with 1 / 4 undecided.

Each Leavitt and Mowers have repeatedly spotlighted their assist for Trump and his agenda, however the former president so far has remained impartial within the major.

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The journey by Cruz to New Hampshire — which for a century has held the primary presidential major within the race for the White Home — will additional gasoline hypothesis that Cruz is transferring in the direction of launching a second nationwide marketing campaign. The conservative firebrand was runner-up to Trump within the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

Final month, as first reported by Fox Information, Cruz visited Iowa, the state that for a half century has kicked off the presidential nominating calendar by its caucuses. Cruz headlined a fundraiser for longtime GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, who’s operating for re-election this 12 months. That journey adopted an earlier August go to to Nevada, which votes fourth within the GOP major and caucus schedule, the place Cruz spoke in assist of former state Legal professional Normal Adam Laxalt, the 2022 Senate nominee in the important thing battleground state.

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas speaks on the annual Basque Fry hosted by former Nevada legal professional common Adam Laxalt, who’s the 2022 Republican Senate nominee, on August 13, 2022 in Gardnerville, Nevada
(Sen. Ted Cruz )

Cruz has persistently not dominated out making one other White Home run and has instructed Fox Information and different information organizations that “after I ran in ’16, it was probably the most enjoyable I’ve had in my life.”

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And Cruz, in a Fox Information interview early final month, reiterated that “I’m dedicated to combating to save lots of this nation with each breath in my physique. It’s what I consider in.”