Sen. Jeanne Shaheen says the person elected president in November should nominate a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

STATE HOUSE SPEAKER Steve Shurtleff has heard some grumbling from members who want to get back into the State House.

Republican Senate nominee Corky Messner went into the primary with the money advantage, the backing of Republican elites including the sitting president, and the Republican Party’s vaunted store of voter data.

Results in the contentious U.S. Senate primary in Massachusetts were announced Tuesday night, despite hundreds of thousands of voters using absentee ballots in the Bay State.

NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN party leaders regaled a group of about 20 Trump campaign volunteers with tales of the abbreviated, scaled-down Republican National Convention.

THE IDEA OF A “virtual convention,” with politicians and TV stars vamping for video cameras while delegates and spectators watch alone at home, seemed about as far as a political event can get from Gerri King‘s living room.

EVEN BEFORE Gov. Chris Sununu issued a mask mandate for gatherings of more than 100 people on Tuesday, he’d lost the support of a group of mask antagonists and COVID-19 skeptics.

NEW HAMPSHIRE’S congressional delegation is pushing for the next COVID-19 relief package to include some money to help state and local governments. The House passed a bill in May but the Senate has yet to vote on it or any other new relief bill.

State and national Republican campaigns disagree about absentee voting in New Hampshire.

As U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas’ office was putting together a bill on policing this week, his staff called up the Manchester Police Department for input.

Fundraising for the campaigns of New Hampshire’s current all-Democratic congressional delegation is running well ahead of their Republican challengers — all of whom also have competitive primary races.

The president is coming back to New Hampshire, and ads for his reelection will follow in a few weeks.

When Matt Mowers got into the Republican primary for the First Congressional district in January, Matt Mayberry called him a friend.

IN AN EMAIL Tuesday, supporters of Don Bolduc‘s Senate campaign were told that President Donald Trump‘s endorsement of Corky Messner in the Republican primary to take on Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was an example of Washington butting into local affairs.

THE FORMER MAYORS of Manchester may not be as well known as the president, who endorsed two candidates for Congress last week, or have massive organizations at their disposal to lift up a candidate, but Ted Gatsas and Ray Wieczorek wanted to make their choices known.

THE CANDIDATE-FILING CEREMONIES of the past week have been the first in-person campaign events in almost three months, but at least one congressional candidate is switching back to in-person events all the time.

AFTER STATE HOUSE protests in April and May against the governor’s COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, the Reopen NH group is taking the next protest to the beach. Group chairman Andrew Manuse in a news release called this drawing a “line in the sand” and “storming the beaches” on the 76th anniver…

EVEN AS GOV. Chris Sununu‘s Democratic challengers hammer him for moving too quickly toward reopening the state, a small group of activists says Sununu is taking it too slow.

ON TUESDAY, the mayors of Kansas City and Miami Beach spoke on a Facebook Live panel with Manchester’s Joyce Craig about health care in their cities.

AS THE FEDERAL RESERVE chair warned of lasting damage if Congress does not pass another relief package, New Hampshire’s delegation was talking up the next federal stimulus package — the HEROES Act, which currently clocks in at about $3 trillion. New Hampshire cities and towns stand to get an…

A SPOKESMAN FOR the National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday called Rep. Chris Pappas a “hypocrite” for accepting support from a so-called “dark money” group after he sponsored a bill requiring those groups to disclose who funds them.

HEALTH CARE WORKERS and first responders are hailed as heroes for their front-line response to coronavirus, feted across the country with thank-you signs, socially distant parades and daily rounds of applause in New York.

ON EARTH DAY, executive councilor and candidate for governor Andru Volinsky announced he won the endorsement of the Sierra Club — and the Sierra Club took a club to Volinsky’s opponent in the Democratic primary, state Sen. Dan Feltes.

NEW HAMPSHIRE’S ELECTIONS officials will release guidance this week about elections, said Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan, should the state still be dealing with COVID-19 during the September primaries or the general election in November.

What would the three men hoping to replace Sen. Jeanne Shaheen have done differently last week?

The touchy-feely New Hampshire primary campaign seems like a lifetime ago. Remember those handshakes, hugs and pinky promises at campaign events for the Democratic presidential candidates, the bodies packed into the SNHU arena at President Donald Trump‘s rallies?

Kathy Martins‘ win in Tuesday’s special election for state representative from Hooksett sure looked like an upset.

EVEN THOUGH Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former South Bend, Ind. mayor Pete Buttigieg suspended their campaigns this week, their New Hampshire delegates will still go to the Democratic National Convention this summer.