Team Negron Announces 'Dead Heat' with Democrat Ann Kuster for NH CD-2 - Granite Grok

Team Negron Announces ‘Dead Heat’ with Democrat Ann Kuster for NH CD-2

Negron Kuster favorability

Team Negron is milking this recent NH CD-2 survey data showing the Republican closing in on Democrat Ann Kuster in favorability. According to the St Anselm poll, Congresswoman Ann Kuster’s approval rating is down to 47%.

Related: Why Steve Negron is Poised to Set GOP Turnout Record for NH CD-2 in Nov. 2020

From a recent email,

 

Time after time we have seen incumbents lose their seats in Congress when their favorability rating dips below 50% and the time to remove Ann Kuster is now! Her divisiveness in Congress is ripping New Hampshire apart and we the people are watching loud and clear.

Enough is enough! It’s time to bring New Hampshire’s voice back to Washington. For too long, we have been lectured by Washington and Kuster’s Kronies. Now is the time to bring NH common sense to Congress.

 

It’s not a death knell. Ann Kuster’s approval has never been high and always near or around 50%. But she doesn’t face much fear of media pressure. None, actually. The NH press is a whimpering simp, more keen on keeping good graces than doing any hard journalism (at least with Democrats).

Neither Ann Kuster nor Chris Pappas has said a word in objection to the riots, looting, and beatings of cops and citizens by so-called “peaceful protesters.” The NH Media has not pressed them for a response, happy to let them glide under the radar.

So, the favorability rating of these elected Democrats is more a feature of a fawning 4th estate than reality. Without any pressure to explain their indifference to all this violence (or open support for an anti-family pro-Marxist group like BLM), favorability is not something upon which NH Democrats have had to invest any money.

That needs to stop or start if you take my meaning. Hopefully, Team Negron plans to make it a feature of messaging and not a bug. And by all accounts, Steve will be her challenger again, based on this from the survey.

 

“With the primary election just over two weeks away, challengers for the general election are likely to be determined by how familiar they are to voters. In this regard, only previous nominee Steve Negron (44% favorable/5% unfavorable) has a clear name-recognition advantage over his opponent, translating into a 37%- 15% voter preference lead over Lynne Blankenbeker in the 2nd CD Republican Congressional primary.

 

Some will say polls are just polls (including me!), but I’m honestly not sure why Lynne ran again. I like her, and I’m sure she’d be better than Ann Kuster, but Mr. Negron (whom I have endorsed) drew record mid-term Republican turnout in 2018 despite a loss in a Democrat wave election.

Kuster has repeatedly made the case that Steve could beat her in 2020 to raise funds for his challenge and has never mentioned any other Republican to my knowledge.

Several of Lynne’s key supporters from 2018 migrated their support to Negron for 2020.

And the rumors I heard before Lynne announced were that she’d only run if there would be money for the race and while no one has Kuster money, Lynne has very little money even for a primary.

So, this latest news on name recognition is a hard hit.

Hey, if Lynne manages to pull out a win, we’ll get behind her 100%, but I’m very skeptical that she’ll take second place at this point. Eli Clemmer is new but savvy, and I see him working the district and events. I don’t hear anything about Lynne (though I expect to after I publish this /wink).

The primary is coming. We’ll know soon enough.

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