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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg revs up the crowd Saturday night at the Eleanor Roosevelt dinner in Manchester. Paula Tracy photoPat Provencher, 91, of New Hampton, said her son is a Republican in Florida who sent her money to attend the NHDP Eleanor Roosevelt dinner Saturday night to see her favorite Pete Buttigieg. Paula Tracy photo.U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is pictured Saturday night at the Eleanor Roosevelt Dinner in Manchester. Paula Tracy photoU.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan tells the crowd women are not going to get over it. Paula Tracy photo

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org

MANCHESTER U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told a sold-out fundraising dinner of 700 Democrats Saturday that the midterm elections present an opportunity to change the future and Republicans have given everyone the most important reason to get out and vote on Nov. 8.

With the election 44 days away, issues of abortion rights and education funding are taking center stage, and Democrats who want to retake the New Hampshire House, Senate, and Executive Council and retain all four congressional seats were all at the event urging the faithful to get out and mobilize the vote.

State Sen. Dr. Tom Sherman, D-Rye, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate who is vying to unseat Gov. Chris Sununu, and Cinde Warmington, the lone Democrat on the states five-member Executive Council, were among the speakers at the Eleanor Roosevelt Dinner.

Buttigieg said the Republican priorities are out of step with the American people.They have become so radical that even the moderate members of the party have had to resort to tactics that are not normal.The moderate Republicans, he said, feel homeless and we should welcome them into the Democratic Party.

He said the nation understands what excluding feels like. Republicans try to exclude and that is not what made America great.Among those attending the event at the Manchester Doubletree Hotel convention center was 91-year-old Pat Provencher of New Hampton, who said her son, a Republican in Florida, paid for her ticket.

She was anxious to hear from Buttigieg, who she said is doing an amazing job in Washington, and to hear from candidates in advance of the election.

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Speakers at the event focused on the need to return the Democratic party to majority control of both chambers in Concord.Right-wing extremism is wrong for New Hampshire, said state Rep. Matt Wilhelm, D-Manchester. State Rep. and House Majority Leader Jason Osborne has shown he cannot be trusted, Wilhelm said.

State Senate Minority Leader Donna Soucy, D-Manchester, said the Democrats are going to take back the New Hampshire Senate.This truly is the most important election of our lifetime, she said.We will not go back and we will not just get over it,' Soucy said, referring to a comment by U.S. Senate candidate Don Bolduc, a Republican.

Public money belongs in public schools, she said to a roar of applause.

WARMINGTON ON EXECUTIVE COUNCILThe lone Democrat on the states five-member Executive Council, Cinde Warmington of Concord said she cannot do the work alone in order to make real change.We must elect a Democratic majority this November. We have no choice, she said.Warmington called it craziness, at the council table.She said just this past week, she had to educate Gov. Chris Sununu on the new abortion law.

He didnt seem to know how worse his abortion ban is from other states, she said.

U.S. Sen. JEANNE SHAHEENSenator Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, asked those who have been knocking on doors to stand up so they could be recognized.

For too long, she said the state has had a governor who has sat on federal funding for children and sent it back.

She said state Sen. Tom Sherman, D-Rye would do a much better job and should be elected governor.Republicans, she said, deny the outcome of the 2020 election, want to eliminate voting rights, attack immigrants, end Social Security and restrict womens rights.

They think we should get over it..were not getting over it, were getting after it, Shaheen said.This November, mothers and daughters, sisters and granddaughters are going to show up at the polls like never before, she said, and we are going to take back the State House in Concord.

Congresswoman ANNIE KUSTERDistrict 2 Congresswoman Annie Kuster said the nation has faced so many challenges but people have been resilient and have made progress in Washington.

She said her opponent does not support those freedoms.Abortion death panels have been an idea he has floated to determine whether women who are pregnant should live or die.If you dont understand it, neither does he, Kuster said.While she did not name him, he is Republican Robert Burns.Our freedoms are on the ballot on Nov. 8, she said urging everyone to get out the vote.

Congressman CHRIS PAPPASCongressman Chris Pappas, D-NH, said his opponent, Republican nominee Karoline Leavitt is the most out of touch candidate that District 1 has ever seen.We are going to make sure everyone in New Hampshire knows about it, he said. I know who I am fighting for, the people of New Hampshire.

Dr. THOMAS SHERMANA physician, Dr. Thomas Sherman, a state Senator from Rye, said the government is now intervening in the most private and personal moments between a patient and a doctor.We cant trust Sununu to stand up for these freedoms because he cant even admit that they have changed, he said. Everything has changed.If Sununu wants a conversation on the economy, bring it on, he said.Right now, Granite Staters are paying a mismanagement tax, he said, because of Sununus veto on renewable energy initiatives.Sherman said Sununu is focused more on his political ambitions than New Hampshire.He said the state should finally legalize adult-userecreational cannabis, like neighboring states.And he criticized Sununu for not standing up to radical Republicans in his party.

U.S. Sen. MAGGIE HASSANU.S. Senator Maggie Hassan, D-NH, said Democrats have to win in November, for the sake of ourstate and to point it in the right direction.She thanked those who knock on doors and asked others to do so, noting she won by only 1,017 votes.Organizing wins elections, she said.Hassan touched on her success in lowering medical costs, bringing infrastructure initiatives home, working on bipartisan solutions to the opioid epidemic, and working on health care benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances.

Don Bolduc, her opponent on the Republican side, said it is time to get government out of Medicare. And Social Security has been there since 1935, its time for a change.'She noted it had been there and people have been paying into it since that time.We cannot let Don Bolduc take away Social Security or Medicare. Its not him to take. It belongs to you, she said.Hassan noted Bolduc is trying to mislead voters and cover up his past assertions of election denying, asserting falsely that Trump won the Presidency and that it was stolen. He has recently said he was wrong about that.

Hassan said New Hampshire has among the most informed voters in the nation and they know his record.Finally, she said, Bolduc has stated he would be a yes vote for a nationwide abortion ban.

You can learn a lot about Bolduc by the company he keeps, she said, noting Rick Scott and Mike Pence came to help him raise money and Mitch McConnell is now spending millions to help his campaign.

Don Bolduc is not interested in listening to New Hampshire women, she said. Don Bolduc told womento get over it. I have a message to Don Bolduc: I am not getting over itThe women of New Hampshire are not getting over it. The women of America are not getting over it, Hassan said, to a standing ovation.

AWARDS PRESENTEDThe NHDP presented its emerging leader award to Strafford County Sheriff Mark Brave. State Rep. Manny Esposito, D-Nashua won the Kathy Sullivan Leadership Award. Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess won the FDR Award and the Eleanor Roosevelt Award was given this year to State Rep. Susan Almy, D-Lebanon.The event is the largest annual fundraiser for the Democratic party.

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MANCHESTER, N.H. Former Vice President Mike Pence will return next month to New Hampshire, sparking further speculation about the likelihood that Pence is gearing up for a White House run in 2024.

Penceon Aug. 17 will headline the New Hampshire Institute of Politics "Politics and Eggs." For two decades the St. Anselm College speaking series has been a must stop for presidential candidates and potential White House contenders visiting the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state.

"Theres a tremendous amount of interest in hearing from the former vice president. Im asked all the time, When are you having Vice President Pence to the institute?" New Hampshire Institute of Politics executive director Neil Leveque told Fox News.

Pence will also make other stops while in New Hampshire, including an event with GOP state lawmakers in the North Country.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women luncheon, on May 26, 2022 in Bedford. (Fox News)

The visit will be Pences second to the Granite State this year, following a late May stop where the former vice president headlined the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Womens annual Lilac Luncheon and took part in a roundtable discussion with law enforcement members that was held at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics. Pence also traveled to New Hampshire twice last year with visits in June and December.

The former vice presidents also made multiple stops the past year and a half in Iowa whose caucuses lead off the presidential nominating calendar and South Carolina which votes third in the GOP calendar and one in Nevada, which votes fourth in the Republican schedule.

When asked about a White House bid, Pence answers with his often-used line that after Novembers midterm elections are over, "well do as our family has always done. Well reflect and pray and consider where we might next serve."

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If Pence does run in 2024, he may face off in a GOP field that also includes his onetime boss, former President Donald Trump, who for a year and a half has repeatedly teased making another presidential bid. The former president seemed to indicate in an interview published Thursday by New York Magazine that his 2024 decision is about when not if.

"I would say my big decision will be whether I go before or after," Trump said in an interview published Thursday, seemingly referring to the midterm elections.

The comments, which grabbed plenty of attention, seemed to confirm previous reporting from a handful of news organizations, including Fox News, that the former president and his top political aides have been mulling the timing of when Trump should announce a 2024 bid. And Fox News confirmed a recent report from Politico that Trumps been discussing his 2024 plans with top donors at small dinners in recent months.

Former Vice President Mike Pence greets customers at Simply Delicious Bakery in Bedford, New Hampshire, on Dec. 8, 2021. (Fox News)

Regarding a Pence visit, longtime New Hampshire based Republican consultant Jim Merrill told Fox News that "this is the year that likely candidates want to lay the groundwork to build the foundation in the early primary and caucus states and Mike Pence has been a leader among the potential candidates in doing just that."

Merrill, a veteran of numerous GOP presidential campaigns, argued that "Pence is very clearly preparing a run for president. Hes doing so methodically and spending time in the right places to lay the groundwork what I think will be a well-received campaign for president."

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Republican National Committee member from New Hampshire Chris Ager praised Pence as someone whos "been extremely helpful in fundraising for our local candidates and it's much appreciated."

And Ager said the former vice presidents visit "maintains our high level of relevance on the national scene and it's great for the candidates because they get to interact with smaller groups of people and get a real pulse of whats on the mind of average voters."

Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in New Hampshire.

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GOP Rep. Liz Cheney delivered a searing indictment of former President Donald Trump and members of the Republican Party on Monday in one of her first speeches since her primary defeat last month.

Cheney this week gave the Walter Berns Constitution Day lecture at AEI, a center-right economic think tank in Washington DC, warning that America's freedom is in a perilous position and urging the country to hold Trump accountable for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot.

Cheney, as the top Republican on the House Select Committee investigating the insurrection, has long been one of the few outspoken GOP critics of Trump a stance that ultimately cost her her congressional seat after Trump spent months propping up her Republican challenger.

But Cheney on Monday did not dwell on her political woes, opting instead to further rebuke Trump's actions, or lack thereof, on January 6, 2021.

"I hope you all heard the testimony in our select committee hearings of Pat Cipollone, corroborated by Cassidy Hutchinson and others on President Trump's White House staff," she said. "Testimony that President Trump was the only person who refused to respond to desperate calls for help, even from his own congressional allies. He refused to come to their aid."

Several witnesses, including Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the committee that they were puzzled by Trump's inaction as rioters stormed the US capitol on January 6.

In her speech on Monday, Cheney suggested that Trump's second-in-command, Mike Pence, stepped into his superior's role.

"If you watched our hearings closely, you understand that Vice President Mike Pence was essentially the president for most of that day," she said. "White House staff knew it, and so did every other Republican and Democratic leader in Washington."

After Trump assailed Pence on Twitter for refusing to reject Electoral College votes for President Joe Biden, rioters throughout the Capitol began chanting "hang Mike Pence." Hutchinson testified earlier this summer that Trump defended the insurrectionists' call for violence, saying that "Mike deserves it."

In his recent autobiography, "So Help Me God," Pence wrote that he was not afraid, during the events of January 6, but angry.

"I was angry at what I saw, how it desecrated the seat of our democracy and dishonored the patriotism of millions of our supporters, who would never do such a thing here or anywhere else," Pence wrote.

According to "The Divider," a new book by Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker, Trump has said he would not pick Pence to be his running mate if he launches a 2024 campaign.

"It would be totally inappropriate" to pick Pence as his running mate, Trump said, according to the book."Mike committed political suicide," the former told Glasser and Baker.

In her speech, Cheney also urged people to rewatch testimony from the committee's summer hearings and listen to what several of Trump's former officials said about the then-president's post-2020 actions while under oath.

"How could Trump's refusal to act, his betrayal or our Republic, of our Constitution, of our principles, come with no cost?" she said.

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Pence met with students on the floor of the Vines Center after Convocation.

In visiting the campus of Liberty University for the third time, 48th Vice President of the United States Mike Pence brought students at Wednesdays Convocation a timely reminder of Christians role in the world today: to be faith-focused leaders and outspoken Christ followers.

Pence has continually spurred Liberty students to remain steadfast in their faith while staying informed on the countrys current events and its future. He last visited campus to deliver the 46th Commencement address in 2019 and spoke in 2016 Convocation as then-Indiana governor and Republican vice presidential candidate.

Campus Pastor Jonathan Falwell set the tone for the morning by reminding students that a key goal of Convocation is to remind them of how their faith ought to influence their lives and careers following their time at Liberty.

Part of our Convocation purpose, what we do here, is to make sure that all of us understand that regardless of what we do in life, (our) faith is not something that we place on a shelf; it is something that you take with you wherever you might go, Falwell said. Today our guest is one who has been a model of that in his career.

After an introduction by Helms School of Government Dean Robert Hurt, Pence took the stage and established himself as a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican in that order. He shared his personal faith testimony, which began with a childhood and adolescent time in which he proclaimed to be a Christian but did not carry through with it in his daily life. That all changed when he began his college years, when he met young men who lived out their faith differently, and he was soon convicted by his passive, phony faith. Pence devoted his life and asked Christ to be his Lord and Savior at a Christian concert not long after.

I stood up and walked down (to the front), not out of a sense of intellectual agreement or persuasion, but more because my heart was broken with gratitude for what had been done for me on the cross and my life has never been the same, Pence said.

Citing his faith as being at the forefront through it all, Pence outlined his ascension in the political sphere that led to his four-year term as Vice President of the United States, and he celebrated the victories that the Trump administration saw in economics, taxes, immigration, military affairs, and in the appointments of 300 conservative judges to the courts, including three Supreme Court justices. It was due to those appointments that Pence was proud to commemorate the June 24 overturning of Roe v. Wade in a victory for the pro-life movement.

But the work to protect life at its start is not done, Pence emphasized.

Let me say to each and every one of you from my heart: in this historic moment, I urge you in this rising generation to continue to be champions for life, he said. We must not rest and we must not relent until we restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law in every state of the nation.

Pence said he came to Liberty University with a call to action for this generation. With many on the other side of the aisle pushing for Christian values to disappear from America, Pence encouraged students to defend their beliefs in a potential last stand.

Today I come to tell you to prepare your minds for action, he said. As the Bible says, To whom much is given, much will be required. Take time in these years of study to understand what made this country special and unique. You must be the freedom generation, because the truth is your generation may be the last line of defense for the Constitution of the United States.

I urge you to let the Constitution be your guide; understand it, study it, and learn it as Americans, because you may well in your life be called on in unique ways to defend it, he added.

It is not easy to be a Christian in America today, Pence explained, and he implored Liberty students to not back down.

We must, as the Bible says in Psalm 15, be prepared to keep our oath even when it hurts, he said. I want to challenge you here at this Liberty University Convocation: renew your commitment to become men and women of integrity. The nation (needs) you, maybe as never before. When the hard times come, when your convictions are tested, you will be in that moment the man or woman you have been preparing to be on every quiet day before.

He emphasized the importance of chasing life pursuits with faith at the center.

I say to this rising generation, particularly those who aspire to leadership in public or private life: use this time in your life to develop the qualities of the inner man and inner woman that will make you into the leaders that America needs, Pence said. Stand strong, grow in your understanding of your faith, take that quiet time every day to read what (God) has to say, and share your heart. Our nation and our world need your example of grace and truth more than ever before.

In the times of trouble, when their faith is being tested or outright criticized in America today, Christians need to remember that the Lord is with them. Pence referenced the biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego as he reminded students that there is another in the fire.

Remember that the foundation of America is freedom, but the foundation of freedom is faith, he said in closing. As you strengthen the foundation of faith in your life, you will strengthen the foundations of this last best hope of earth. Go with confidence, always remembering that where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Students said Pences message left them with hope and said his genuine passion for them shone through.

He did a great job explaining his perspective, worldview, and hope for the future in us as young leaders of faith to go out into the world and champion our values, said Jesse Hughes, a junior studying pre-law and history. It was very relatable, and the message and ideas that he was expounding were timeless in their relevance.

His character, virtue, kindness, and convictions really struck the heart of the Liberty student body, which is to be Champions for Christ and stand for truth in the public arena, said junior government student Daniel Hostetter, Libertys student body president. Pence displayed such a kindness and virtue today that shows his heart is to build the kingdom of God above all else. As someone who wants to go into public service, this was a great lesson to put Christ first above everything.

Following his time on the Convocation stage, Pence spoke with students from the Helms School of Government and School of Law in a special Q&A session.

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U.S. President Joe Biden exits the polling station after voting in the Delaware primary, in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., September 13, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

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WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will speak on Tuesday about a bill that would require super PACs and certain other groups to disclose donors who contributed $10,000 or more during an election cycle, a measure doomed to fail due to lack of Republican support.

The bill is slated for a Senate vote this week, top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said on Monday, as Democrats seek to boost election transparency ahead of the November midterms after failing to pass more ambitious voting rights legislation earlier this year.

The vote does not have the support of 60 senators necessary to overcome the Senate's vote threshold for ending debate.

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Republicans, including Texas senator Ted Cruz, have argued that companies have the right to express themselves through anonymous donations. Democrats say such 'dark money' donations have warped the political system, resulting in laws that do not reflect the majority of Americans' views.

"There is no justification under heaven for keeping such massive contributions hidden from the public," Schumer said.

The measure, known as the DISCLOSE Act, was initially included in Democrats' voting rights bill that sought to counteract voting restrictions in Republican-led states. That package passed the House in January but died in the Senate under Republican opposition.

Proponents of the restrictive state measures said they were necessary to counter fraud. Republican former President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that widespread voter fraud led to his 2020 election defeat.

Democrats have accused Republicans at the state level of enacting policies to make it harder for racial minorities who tend to support Democratic candidates to cast ballots.

"In state after state, Republican state legislatures are engaged in an unprecedented effort to suppress the sacred right to vote and subvert the American bedrock of free and fair elections," Biden said when Senate Republicans voted to block the broader voting rights effort in January.

Republicans in turn accuse Democrats of attempting a federal takeover of election laws.

The DISCLOSE ACT, if approved, would also require groups spending money on judicial nominees to disclose their donors.

The House of Representatives is separately considering a proposal by Republican Liz Cheney and Democrat Zoe Lofgren clarifying a 135-year-old law to show that the vice president's role in certifying elections is purely symbolic.

The proposal is a response to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, who were trying to stop certification of Joe Biden's victory, and to pressure from Trump himself on Vice President Mike Pence to overturn Joe Biden's election win by decertifying certain slates of electors.

Biden is scheduled to make the remarks at 1:45 p.m. (1745 GMT) in the Roosevelt Room of the White House before heading to New York to participate in the United Nations General Assembly this week.

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