New Hampshire
Hillary Clinton endorses Maggie Goodlander, spotlighting N.H. congressional candidate’s political ties – The Boston Globe
The high-profile endorsement underscores just how politically connected Goodlander is at the national level. She worked as an advisor to US senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain, clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, and served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the US Department of Justice before her stint as a senior White House aide under President Biden.
Goodlander left the White House to move back to her hometown of Nashua, N.H., and launched her campaign in May. Her husband, Jake Sullivan, still serves as Biden’s National Security Advisor. He was a top aide to Clinton ahead of the 2016 election.
When Goodlander and Sullivan married in 2015, their guest list was a veritable who’s-who of Democratic power players. Clinton even delivered a reading during the wedding ceremony.
While Goodlander’s proponents see her connections and work experience in the nation’s capital as an asset, her opponents have sought to portray her as more closely linked to Washington, D.C., than to her district.
Colin Van Ostern, who is competing with Goodlander for the Democratic nomination, served four years on New Hampshire’s five-member Executive Council and ran for governor in 2016.
“We appreciate and respect the role Secretary Clinton has played in our nation,” Van Ostern’s campaign manager, Jordan K. Burns, said in a statement Thursday. “But respectfully, this primary election is for the people of New Hampshire to decide, not outside interests — no matter how powerful.”
Burns said the endorsements that Van Ostern has collected from Democratic mayors in the district, state lawmakers, labor unions, and others reflect the trust he has built locally.
Van Ostern had served as Kuster’s campaign manager in 2010 and locked in her endorsement in April very shortly after Kuster announced her retirement.
While Goodlander’s fund-raising in the second quarter alone outstripped what Van Ostern had raised since he launched his bid, she trailed him in terms of funds coming directly from Granite Staters, according to The Boston Globe’s analysis of their Federal Election Commission filing data.
About 88 percent of Goodlander’s campaign cash came from donors whose addresses are outside New Hampshire, while about 41 percent of Van Ostern’s came from out-of-staters — which means his in-state fund-raising more than tripled hers.
Goodlander has also faced critical coverage stemming from a comment she made to the Globe in her first interview confirming her candidacy. While sitting in her Nashua living room, she pointed out the window to the hospital where she was born, to the place where she cast her vote for president, and other sites where she said generations of her family had settled and made a living. She also confirmed that she and Sullivan still own their home in Portsmouth, which is in the state’s other congressional district, and recently signed a lease for the place in Nashua.
“I am a renter, and there should be more renters in Congress,” she added, leading to a round of dubious coverage from The New York Times, the Daily Beast, and other outlets.
During a radio forum Wednesday on “Good Morning New Hampshire,” Van Ostern made the case that he has a stronger sense for what Granite Staters want and need.
“I’ve devoted my adult life to the people of New Hampshire,” he said. “I’ve been here — a year ago, five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago — in our communities, fighting for us.”
Goodlander, meanwhile, defended the depth of her local roots and said her experience in all three branches of the federal government positions her for success in Congress.
“Look, the people’s house is a crazy place,” she said. “But we need people who are work horses, not show horses. We need people who are ready to roll up their sleeves and get things done, and that’s what I’ve been doing my entire life.”
In a statement Thursday, Goodlander said she is honored to have Clinton’s endorsement.
“She has led on so many of the toughest fights throughout her career,” Goodlander said. “Our freedoms are on the ballot this year: our reproductive freedom, our economic freedom, and our very democracy. … I’ll be ready to deliver on day one for the people of New Hampshire.”
Democratic primary voters will decide between Goodlander and Van Ostern on Sept. 10. The winner will face off with the GOP nominee in the Nov. 5 general election.
Republican candidates in this race include Lily Tang Williams, William P. Hamlen, and Vikram Mansharamani. Their FEC filings show they have raised significantly less than Van Ostern so far, in a district that analysts view as tending to favor Democratic candidates.
Steven Porter can be reached at steven.porter@globe.com. Follow him @reporterporter.
The son of Cher is scheduled to be in court Wednesday for a hearing over allegations he broke into a New Hampshire home earlier this month.
It was the second arrest in a matter of days for Elijah Allman, 49, of Malibu, California, who was detained Feb. 27 after allegedly acting belligerently at a prestigious prep school in New Hampshire. It was unclear if Allman had any connection to either St. Paul’s School or the home in Windham, New Hampshire.
Allman remains in the Rockingham County Department of Corrections in what is called preventive detention, Superintendent Jonathan Banville said.
Allman, whose father was the late singer Gregg Allman, faces two counts of criminal mischief, one count of burglary and a count of breach of bail for breaking into the home on March 1. Police said in a report that Allman did not have permission to be at the home and forcibly entered it .
In the incident at the prep school, Allman was charged with four misdemeanors: two counts of simple assault, criminal trespass and criminal threatening. Allman was also charged with a violation of disorderly conduct, which is illegal in the state but not considered a crime.
At about 7 p.m. that day, Concord police responded to reports that Allman was disturbing people in the dining hall of St. Paul’s School. After charging Allman, police said he was released on bail as his case works through the court system.
Allman did not respond to an email requesting comment, and a phone number for him was not working. It was unclear from the court records if Allman has an attorney.
In December 2023, Cher filed a petition to become a temporary conservator overseeing her son’s money, saying Allman struggles with mental health issues and addiction have left him unable to manage his assets and potentially put his life in danger.
The petition from the singer and actress said Elijah Allman is entitled to regular payments from a trust fund. But “given his ongoing mental health and substance abuse issues,” she is “concerned that any funds distributed to Elijah will be immediately spent on drugs, leaving Elijah with no assets to provide for himself and putting Elijah’s life at risk,” the petition says.
A few weeks later, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jessica Uzcategui denied the request, saying she was not convinced that a conservatorship was urgently needed. Allman was in the courtroom with his his attorneys, who acknowledged his previous struggles but argued that he is in a good place now, attending meetings, getting treatment and reconciling with his previously estranged wife.
New Hampshire
Possible 2028 Democratic White House contenders weigh in on Iran with New Hampshire voters
As the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran overtakes the foreign policy debate in Washington, two Democratic governors with potential 2028 presidential aspirations — Gavin Newsom and Andy Beshear — recently traveled to New Hampshire, introducing themselves to the state’s famously engaged voters. The two weighed in on the war and both criticized and questioned President Trump’s strategy and endgame.
“If a president is going to take a country into war, and risk the lives of American troops and Americans in the region, he has to have a real justification and not one that seems to change every five to 10 hours,” Beshear told CBS News after a Democratic fundraiser in Keene.
“This President seems to use force before ever trying diplomacy, and he has a duty to sell it to the American people and to address Congress with it,” Beshear continued. “He hasn’t done any of that. In fact, it appears there isn’t even a plan for what success looks like. He’s gone from regime change to strategic objectives and now is talking about unconditional surrender, which isn’t realistic where he is.”
Beshear also said he thought that Congress should have reined in Mr. Trump’s war powers.
“He is trying to ignore Congress. He’s trying to even ignore the American people,” Beshear said.
He went on to note that the president’s State of the Union address took place “three — four days before he launched this attack,” and Mr. Trump “didn’t even have the respect to tell the American people the threat that he thought Iran posed to us.”
Last week, both the House and the Senate failed to pass resolutions to limit Mr. Trump’s war powers and stop him from taking further military action against Iran without congressional support.
For Newsom, the war with Iran constitutes part of a broader criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
At an event last Tuesday in Los Angeles, Newsom had compared Israel to an “apartheid state.” Later, in New Hampshire, he sought to clarify his comment.
“I was specifically referring to a Tom Friedman [New York Times] column last week, where Tom used that word of apartheid as it relates to the direction Bibi is going, particularly on the annexation of the West Bank,” Newsom explained during a book tour event Thursday night in Portsmouth. “I’m very angry, with what he is doing and why he’s doing it, what he’s going to ultimately try to do to the Supreme Court there, what he’s trying to do to save his own political career.”
Friedman wrote that at the same time that the U.S. and Israel are prosecuting a war in Iran, within Israel, Netanyahu’s government has undertaken efforts to annex the West Bank, driving Palestinians from their homes; fire the attorney general who is leading the prosecution against Netanyahu for corruption; and block the government’s attempt to establish a commission to examine the failures that led up to the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Jews by Hamas.
CBS News has reached out to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., for comment.
On Iran, Newsom said, “I’m very angry about this war, with all due respect, you know, not because I’m angry the supreme leader is dead. Quite the contrary. I’m not naive about the last 37 years of his reign. Forty-seven years since ’79 — the revolution,” Newsom said. “But I’m also mindful that you have a president who still is inarticulate and incapable of giving us the rationale of why? Why now? What’s the endgame?”
Many attendees at Newsom’s book event said that the situation in Iran is a top-of-mind issue for them, too. Some said they’re “horrified” by what is happening.
29-year-old Alicia Marr told CBS News she decided to attend Newsom’s event because of his social media response to the war with Iran.
“There was one spot left, and I decided to pick it up, and it was due to his response to the war, that it is just unacceptable, and I would agree with that,” Marr said.
While some voters like Marr are eager to hear about where potential candidates stand on foreign policy, many at Newsom’s event said they care most about how potential candidates plan to address domestic issues.
“I’m more focused on getting the middle class back on track and fighting the oligarchy, and I’m less invested in international issues,” said Anita Alden, who also attended Newsom’s event,
“I wouldn’t call myself America first, but we have so many problems at home that are my priority,” she told CBS News.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who may also be weighing another White House bid, told Fox 2 Detroit last week that she “unequivocally opposes” the Trump administration’s military action in Iran and urged Congress to take action.
“If we want to stop Donald Trump with this random decision that he has arrived at, then Congress must act, and Congress must act immediately. The American people do not want our sons and daughters to go into this unauthorized war of choice,” Harris said.
Mr. Trump has lashed out against Democrats who have pushed back on his Iran strategy, calling them “losers” last week and arguing that they would criticize any decision he made on Iran.
“If I did it, it’s no good. If I didn’t do it, they would have said the opposite, that you should have done this,” the president said.
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