If you are a New Hampshire voter who thinks Donald Trump is doing a good job, you can probably sleep in on primary day, Feb. 11. Try as they might, his Republican challengers have not made a dent in the President’s popularity within the party here.
If you are an independent or Democrat, however, yours may be one of the most consequential votes ever cast in a New Hampshire Primary. If there is to be any realistic challenge to Trump in November, the Democratic nominee needs to have a proven and substantial record of accomplishment across party lines, an ability to unite rather than divide, and the strength and stamina to go toe-to-toe with the Tweeter-in-Chief.
That would be U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. She is sharp and witty, with a commanding understanding of both history and the inner workings of Capitol Hill.
Trump doesn’t want to face her. He is hoping for Bernie, Biden, Buttigieg or Warren. Each has weaknesses, whether of age, inexperience or a far-left agenda that thrills some liberals but is ripe for exploitation in a mainstream general election.
Sen. Klobuchar has none of those weaknesses and the incumbent needs to be presented a challenger who is not easily dismissed. Her work in Washington has led to the passage of an impressive number of substantive bills, even as the partisan divide has deepened. In 2018 she won reelection, taking back dozens of conservative-leaning counties that had gone for Trump two years earlier, when Hillary Clinton barely beat him in Minnesota. In fact, Sen. Klobuchar, a former prosecutor, has never lost an election.
But can a woman be elected President? We say of course, the right woman can and should be. By choosing Amy Klobuchar, New Hampshire primary voters can go a long way to proving it.
New Hampshire legislators are right to move forward with bills protecting young female athletes from being physically injured by boys who want to be girls.
Of the many troubling aspects in the recent story of state Rep. Jonathan Stone, most disturbing to us is another example of a public body agreeing to keep from the public information that it is entitled to and ought to know.
It’s early but Manchester state Sen. Donna Soucy is clearly in the running for non sequitur of the year with her amazing statement in defense of transgender boys competing against girls on New Hampshire sports teams.
Half Zantop, 62, and Susanne Zantop, 55, were stabbed to death after Half opened their door in Etna to two Vermont teens pretending to be working on a homework assignment.
Younger generations as well as transplants to New Hampshire may not know of a time when certain vested medical interests fought tooth and nail against the idea of independent medical service and testing clinics for our state. What we take for granted today in terms of options for ambulatory …
