Like a driver making a screeching U-turn, Don Bolduc, the Republican Senate nominee in New Hampshire, pivoted on Thursday from his primary race to the general election, saying
he had “come to the conclusion” that the 2020 presidential election “was not stolen,” after he had spent more than a year claiming it was.
“I’ve done a lot of research on this, and I’ve spent the past couple weeks talking to Granite Staters all over the state from every party, and I have come to the conclusion — and I want to be definitive on this — the election was not stolen,” Mr. Bolduc said in an
interview on Fox News.
“Elections have consequences, and, unfortunately, President Biden is the legitimate president of this country,” he said.
Mr. Bolduc
won his primary on Tuesday over a more moderate candidate, Chuck Morse, the president of the New Hampshire Senate. Mr. Bolduc ran on an uncompromising right-wing platform, complete with declarations that former President Donald J. Trump had won the 2020 election.
Among other instances, in May 2021, he signed
an open letter in which retired generals and admirals advanced false claims that the election had been tainted. “The F.B.I. and Supreme Court must act swiftly when election irregularities are surfaced and not ignore them as was done in 2020,” it said.
In a debate with his Republican primary opponents last month, he referred back to that letter and declared, to applause, that he would not budge from his position.
“I signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying that Trump won the election, and, damn it,
I stand by my letter,” he said. “I’m not switching horses, baby. This is it.”
Switching horses on Thursday, he said in the Fox News interview, “We, you know, live and learn, right?”
Don Bolduc, the Republican Senate nominee in New Hampshire, pivoted to the general election, saying he had concluded that the 2020 presidential election “was not stolen.”
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