Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) debated her Republican challenger Don Bolduc for the second and likely final time on Thursday afternoon in a contentious event moderated by hosts from New Hampshire Public Radio and the New Hampshire Bulletin.
The debate covered a range of issues from abortion rights to inflation to election security.
During the debate Bolduc parroted claims of election fraud he said he heard from New Hampshire residents including that thousands of people were bussed in from out of state to vote illegally. This unfounded claim, which was also made by former President Donald Trump, apparently caused a chuckle in the audience, which prompted Bolduc to double down, saying, “You can laugh about it, but people in New Hampshire aren’t laughing about it.”
“We need to make sure that school busses loaded with people at the polls don’t come in and vote. And we need…
