Granite State voters weigh candidates as first-in-the-nation primary approaches
Four candidates campaigned in New Hampshire this Sunday
Four candidates campaigned in New Hampshire this Sunday
Four candidates campaigned in New Hampshire this Sunday
With six months left until New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary, candidates are doing everything they can to reach as many Granite State voters as possible, and voters are winnowing their choices.
On Sunday, four Democratic contenders – South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson – made their case for the White House at various events around New Hampshire.
Buttigieg had a busy weekend, speaking to voters in the Upper Valley on Saturday, then heading to the Lakes Region on Sunday.
Klobuchar used the Seacoast Science Center as a backdrop to talk climate change Sunday morning.
“And that is, get us back into the international climate change agreement, bring back the clean power rules and the higher gas mileage standards, something the car companies are OK with,” Klobuchar said in Rye. “You can do that without Congress.”
Klobuchar also appeared at the Belknap County Democrats Picnic in Laconia later that afternoon alongside tech entrepreneur Yang and spiritual author Williamson, who both said the economy is working for few.
"Let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen: Money doesn't trickle down from a bunch of corporate aristocrats feasting off the public purse and say they'll drop a few crumbs in terms of job creation for the sake of the citizens of the United States,” Williamson said.
"This is a message that's taking over like wildfire, that we can actually build an economy that works for us, that prioritizes us as human beings,” Yang said. “We are the owners and shareholders of this economy, that we're not servants to it, that we're not inputs into this giant capital efficiency machine."
Some voters at the picnic said they have a candidate in mind, while others are still shopping around.
"I was a Republican, and I’m for Andrew Yang, which is about as far from the Republican spectrum that you can get,” said Joe Lukeman, of Bristol.
"There are several people sticking out right now as far as who we're thinking about,” said Karen Lukeman, of Bristol.
"I’ve made a choice, but I won't tell you what it is,” said Paula Chambers, of Laconia.