New Hampshire Journal

Veteran New Hampshire GOP players Alicia Preston Xanthopoulos and Jim Merrill join the NHJournal podcast to talk about how the FITN primary looks from nearly one year out. Is the biggest story so far the NHDems' decision to strip the Granite State of its place at the front of the line? Host Michael Graham doesn't think so. Also, a new exclusive NHJournal poll of NHDems shows they're...

Christopher Rufo is one of the most influential people on the American Right, leading the fight against Critical Race Theory in schools and government training, and now pushing back on DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) policies. New Hampshire has legislation dealing with both, and Rufo discusses why he believes the Granite State needs them. Also, on Thursday New Hampshire  House Democrats real...

Ryan Terrell was elected NHGOP state vice chairman less than a month ago, but he's hitting the ground running. He knows the Republican Party suffered a setback in 2022, but he believes victory is right around the corner and in this NHJournal podcast, he explains why. Terrell talks education policy, GOP politics and his personal story as a Hurricane Katrina evacuee. Plus host Michael Graham ta...

Why is RFK, Jr coming to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics? Why did he jump into the fight for New Hampshire's FITN primary two weeks ago? Is Camelot magic making a return? It's all part of the podcast, along with Vivek Ramaswamy -- author, tech guy, Fox News celebrity, and a possible Republican candidate in 2024. He talks 'Woke, Inc.',  ESG investing and GOP politics wit...

Will Hurd is on a mission : Helping folks understand a crazy world with rational takes from a former CIA officer and congressman on current events, foreign policy, and technological advances. On the NHJournal podcast, Hurd talks about the significance of the Chinese spy balloon and the Biden administration's handling of it. He also talks about the risk posed by Tik Tok and China's tech a...

New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella says protecting the public is his top priority. But the specific protections he’s chosen to highlight have some in Granite State political circles suggesting he might also have political ambitions as well. In an exclusive and wide-ranging podcast interview with NHJournal, the 36-year-old AG talks about why he became a lawyer (Two words: "Jack McCoy...

Republican National Committeeman Chris Ager wants the NHGOP state party chairman's job and, so far, he's the only candidate in the race. In a wide-ranging interview with NHJournal Managing Editor Michael Graham, Ager talks about how his "diplomatic" approach may be different from the current mood of some GOP activists and how Gov. Chris Sununu's opposition to his candidacy...

Axios' political reporter Josh Kraushaar says Gov. Chris Sununu is "a great quote, and a great interview." But is he viewed by DC politicos as a serious 2024 POTUS candidate? Krashaar  talks to NHJournal Managing Editor Michael Graham about it, along with how the NHDems vs. Biden/DNC  fight over the FITN is playing on the national stage. And could 2024 see a return of 'The Sunu...

Is the New Hampshire Democrats' First In The Nation primary dead? Or maybe even, ala Princess Bride, mostly dead ? Not even close, says the Boston Globe's James Pindell in the NHJournal podcast. Instead of killing the NH primary, the Biden/DNC bombshell has just unleashed chaos across the Democrats' primary map. And they've also added rule changes that would force New Hampshire...

Granite State Republicans expecting a Red Wave in last week's midterms got a Blue Backlash instead. Why? NHJournal Managing Editor Michael Graham offers his take. And former Congressman Mike Rogers is trying to get Americans focused on the rising threat China poses to America's interests and values. He's part of Leadership to Ensure the American Dream (LEAD ),  a new initiative born...

On Election Day 2022, former NYC Mayor and GOP POTUS candidate Rudy Giuliani stopped by Castro's in Manchester -- one of the great joys of living in the Granite State! He wanted an interview for his radio show, NHJournal wanted one for our podcast, and here is the result. The audio isn't terrific, but it's OK and the conversation is a lot of fun. So please enjoy this impromptu podca...

It's a double-barreled edition of the New Hampshire Journal podcast, recorded just minutes after the WMUR-TV debate between U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan and her GOP challenger Gen. Don Bolduc. Cliffs Notes version: If it had been a fight, they woulda stopped it, only Hassan didn't show up prepared to fight. Bolduc dominated the debate and moved his improbable bid to defeat an incumbent U.S...

Come for the rank NH politics punditry, stay for the conversation about "Sextober" at UNH (You should --if you're a New Hampshire taxpayer, you're paying for it!) On an eclectic edition of the NHJournal podcast, host Michael Graham talks to Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies about the crisis at the southern border and the Biden administration's role. Is i...

Over the past three election cycles, Robert Cahaly of the Trafalgar Group has emerged as the most trusted GOP pollster in America, predicting races -- like Trump's 2016 victory -- nearly everyone else missed. He just dropped a poll from the NH Senate race and he talks to host Michael Graham about the mood of the Granite State electorate (not good) and the prospects that a wild-card candidate...

In this special post-debate edition of the NHJournal podcast, UNH political science professor Dante Scala joins NHJournal Managing Editor Michael Graham to review the performances and pick the winners in WMUR's U.S. Senate GOP primary debate -- the only statewide, televised debate of the campaign. SPOILER ALERT: The reviews aren't good. They also discuss the impact of Gov. Chris Sununu&a...

How should Granite State Republicans talk about abortion? Based on their behavior during the 2022 campaign, the answer appears to be "only under duress." Mallory Carroll with Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America doesn't agree. She joins host Michael Graham to discuss how Republicans are mishandling the abortion issue and the opportunity they have in the midterms. The podcast begins, ho...

Former Ambassador Ric Grenell is an outspoken advocate of President Trump's foreign policy and he makes the case for the former president's record in the podcast. From Russia and Ukraine to Iran and Israel, Grenell argues the Trump approach made progress President Biden has squandered. Grenell was in the Granite State campaigning for his former State Department colleague Matt Mowers, a R...

David Drucker is senior correspondent for the Washington Examiner, author of the book "In Trump's Shadow," and a longtime reporter on American politics. He joins the pod to talk about how the New Hampshire GOP Senate primary is looking to Republicans in DC, and why the GOP insiders aren't panicking about a crash of the "Red Wave" -- yet. Also, Drucker's theory on...

Former NH-02 Congressman Paul Hodes is no stranger to wave elections. He was swept into office during the GOP collapse of 2006 and ran (unsuccessfully) for U.S. Senate during the Republican sweep of 2010. In this edition of the NHJournal podcast, Hodes talks about the possibility of a "red wave" hitting the Granite State in 2022, rebuts the argument that progressive politics in New Hamps...

After a year of whistling past the political graveyard, New Hampshire Democrats are now facing the very real likelihood the Democratic National Committee is going to strip them of their prized "First in the Nation" primary status. Worse, says NHJournal host Michael Graham, is the reason they're giving for taking the primary way: Granite State voters are 'too white.' Politi...

Maryland Gov.  Larry Hogan was in New Hampshire talking housing policy and politics, and he sat down with NHJournal's Michael Graham to talk about Republican politics, just how big the GOP tent truly is, and different U.S. policy would have been if he had taken the oath of office in January 2021 instead of Joe Biden. Hogan also talks about why he thinks resentment within the GOP base is misgu...

After trending on Twitter earlier in the week, Rep. Jason Osborne joins host Michael Graham on the NHJournal podcast to talk about his controversial 4th of July message and how the reaction confirms his decision to keep his tweets private. Osborne also talks about the midterms and why the NHDems' decision to center their campaign message on guns and abortion is just fine by him.  Sponsored by...

On this edition of the NHJournal podcast, Managing Editor Michael Graham is joined by Paris Alic, the Washington Times Capitol Hill reporter who also served as a panelist for the first NH GOP U.S. Senate debate. He offers his take on how DC Republicans and funders are likely to view what they saw on stage at the NHJournal debate, held at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics on the campus of St....

On this edition of the New Hampshire Journal podcast, host Michael Graham is joined by Sen. Regina Birdsell (R-Derry) one of the leading figures in legislative debates over the issue of abortion. Now that the Supreme Court has sent the issue back to the states, Sen. Birdsell will be one of the legislators dealing with it in Concord. And Drew Cline from the Josiah Bartlett Center talks about his ne...

In this edition of the NHJournal podcast, Michael Graham has big news about NHJournal and Drew Cline of the Josiah Bartlett Center has even bigger news! Plus Michael was there when progressives and Hassan supporters faced off in the hall outside the Secretary of State's office -- in fact, he's even got some audio -- and the chaos was not a good sign for Hassan or her fellow Democrats thi...