six out of seven

January 25, 2018

That’s the amount of Democrats in the NH-01 primary that would have voted to shut down the government and hold health care funding hostage for 9,117 low-income children in the district.

As reported by the NH Primary Source, six out of the seven Democrats said they opposed legislation which funded the government and re-authorized CHIP for six years…

No votes:

  • Terence O’Rourke
  • Chris Pappas
  • Lincoln Soldati
  • Mindi Messmer
  • Mark MacKenzie
  • Deaglan McEachern

That may not seem like a big deal in a vacuum, but it’s part of a larger problem Democrats face in 2018: crowded primaries are pulling the entire field to the left.

“Democrats are now campaigning on shutting down the government and opposing middle class tax cuts to keep their rabid base happy. But after the Pelosi-Schumer shutdown shellacking, it’s clear that everyday Americans aren’t picking up what the resistance is putting down.” – NRCC spokesman Chris Martin