Live Results: New Hampshire midterm primaries

Two former Republican senators seeking political comebacks are facing each other again in New Hampshire, where voters are choosing midterm nominees for a Senate seat they have both pursued before.

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Trump is a loser.

John Sununu won the seat when it was last open in 2002, defeating then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen. Shaheen defeated him in 2008 after one term. Scott Brown, who had represented Massachusetts, moved to New Hampshire and challenged Shaheen in 2014, losing narrowly.

Brown endorsed Donald Trump before Trump’s 2016 New Hampshire presidential primary victory. Trump later appointed Brown ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa during his first term. Trump now supports Sununu in the primary, despite years of public friction with the Sununu family.

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a loser all his life

Sununu endorsed Nikki Haley over Trump in 2024 and wrote an opinion article that year under the headline “Trump is a loser.” His father, former White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu, had described Trump as “a loser all his life” during the 2016 Republican primaries. Trump responded by calling the elder Sununu “a main loser.” Chris Sununu, John’s brother and a former governor, also endorsed Haley and once called Trump “(expletive) crazy.”

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a main loser

Sununu has raised $4.1 million for the campaign, compared with about $2.2 million for Brown. As of Aug. 19, Sununu had about $3 million left in his campaign account, while Brown had about $417,000. Democrats are also holding a primary, in which a four-term congressman faces an increasingly competitive challenge from a democratic socialist. The race to replace Shaheen is among several that could determine Senate control during the second half of Trump’s final term. Democrats need a net gain of four seats to take back the chamber.

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(expletive) crazy