Longtime Democrat senator's daughter takes aim at Trump, Musk, RFK Jr, in launch for key House swing seat

The eldest girl of longtime Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire is taking a measurement to travel successful her mother's governmental footsteps.

Stefany Shaheen connected Wednesday declared her candidacy for the U.S. House successful the unfastened spot contention successful New Hampshire’s competitory 1st Congressional District.

The younger Shaheen wasted nary clip successful targeting President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, who has been steering Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, and Republicans successful Congress.

In a run motorboat video, Shaheen spotlighted her efforts arsenic a healthcare advocator for her girl Elle, who has Type 1 diabetes. Shaheen said the diagnosis turned her "into a fierce combatant for aesculapian probe and innovation to assistance Elle and millions similar her."

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"So, erstwhile I spot Donald Trump crushing aesculapian probe and slashing wellness attraction for kids, seniors and veterans to springiness taxation breaks to billionaires and corporations, I person to combat back. That’s wherefore I’m moving for Congress," Shaheen said successful a statement.. "No 1 fights harder than a ma for her kids, and that’s however I volition combat for your family, too. I’ll ne'er springiness up." 

Shaheen, successful her video, besides charged that Musk has been "chasing retired our champion scientists and doctors" and claimed that Kennedy is "allowing measles to tally rampant due to the fact that helium believes successful conspiracy theories alternatively of proven vaccines."

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the House GOP's run arm, took purpose astatine Shaheen implicit her celebrated family's governmental pedigree.

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"Nepo babe Stefany Shaheen is simply a DC elitist who is committed to the Democrats’ extremist docket that makes beingness much costly and little safe. Granite Staters volition resoundingly cull her and her retired of interaction policies," NRCC spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole argued successful a connection to Fox News.

Shaheen is moving for the spot presently held by four-term Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, who is campaigning to win the elder Shaheen, the archetypal pistillate successful U.S. past to beryllium elected some arsenic a politician and a U.S. senator.

Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, seen speaking astatine a argumentation lawsuit successful Concord, New Hampshire, connected Oct. 22, 2024, announced earlier this twelvemonth that she would not question re-election successful 2026. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

The 78-year-old legislator announced successful March that she would not question re-election to the Senate successful 2026.

The determination by the younger Shaheen, who antecedently served connected the Portsmouth City Council and the Portsmouth Police Commission, sets up a apt blockbuster superior with Maura Sullivan, a New Hampshire Democratic Party vice chair. Sullivan is besides a Marine seasoned who served successful the Iraq War and was the 2018 Democratic superior runner-up to Pappas successful the 1st District.

Sullivan launched a legislature run past month.

Democrat Maura Sullivan announces her candidacy for the U.S. House successful New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District successful a run motorboat video connected April 10, 2025. (Maura Sullivan campaign)

New Hampshire's 1st District, which covers the eastbound fractional of New England's lone battleground authorities and includes the cities of Manchester and Portsmouth, was erstwhile 1 of the nation's premiere plaything legislature districts. 

Republicans are aiming to flip the spot successful adjacent year's midterm election, and the contention is apt to beryllium competitory and expensive. However, nary Republican has won the territory since 2014.

In the contention for the GOP legislature nomination, facilities absorption enforcement Chris Bright, who ran unsuccessfully successful 2024 for the seat, has declared his candidacy.

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Former authorities Sen. Russell Prescott, the 2024 nominee who mislaid to Pappas, is mulling different tally for Congress.

So are New Hampshire GOP Vice Chair Hollie Noveletsky and Joe Kelly Levasseur, who, on with Bright, came successful down Prescott successful the 2024 GOP primary. State Attorney General John Formella is besides thought to beryllium a imaginable contender for the GOP nomination.