#1 is the best, #50 is the worst
In the last debate before Election Day, Governor Kelly Ayotte said Cinde Warmington 'will not commit to banning an income or sales tax.' PolitiFact found that conflicts with Warmington's repeated statements — including one she made in that same debate. Ayotte also inflated two years of Purdue Pharma work into a 'career.'
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
Ayotte quietly signed HB 323, which strips college and high school IDs from New Hampshire's voter ID law. A federal judge ordered the state to stop telling students their IDs could never be used; on Oct. 22 the U.S. Supreme Court lifted that order over Justice Jackson's dissent.
Harris won New Hampshire with 50.7% of the vote to 47.9%, a margin of 2.8 points, with 73.7% of eligible voters turning out. (Full 2024 presidential results, state by state.)
0 of 4 — 0%. In the U.S. House, New Hampshire has 0 Republicans and 2 Democrats; in the Senate, 0 Republicans and 2 Democrats. (Source: Current members of Congress from New Hampshire, on Wikipedia.)
New Hampshire ranks #2 of 50. That is the average of its rank on the 17 measures in the report card above — violent crime, gun deaths, life expectancy, food insecurity, maternal and infant mortality, household income, public education, voter turnout and more. #1 is the best state to live in, #50 the worst.
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We grade Republican incumbents running in 2026 — U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and governors — on their record: how they voted, who funds them, and what it has cost New Hampshire. Democrats and independents do not get report cards.
