By Dana Wormald | Editor
Hello, New Hampshire, and happy Wednesday. How do the candidates vying to represent New Hampshire in Washington differ in their visions for childcare policy? Maya Mitchell has the details. Also with an eye on next week’s midterm elections, Will Skipworth reports on plans from the federal government to send election monitors to polling places in two New Hampshire cities, while Ariana Figueroa and Shauneen Miranda of States Newsroom’s D.C. Bureau cover a surge in early voting. Thank you for being with us, and enjoy the day.
- Molly Rains, filling in for Dana Wormald.
From left to right: Stefany Shaheen, Anthony DiLorenzo, Rep. Maggie Goodlander, Lily Tang Williams, Rep. Chris Pappas and former Sen. John E. Sununu offered their thoughts on addressing childcare affordability and governance during an early education forum on Thursday. The election is Nov. 3. (Screenshots)
By Maya Mitchell
With cost-of-living woes taking center stage ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, New Hampshire’s congressional candidates outlined how childcare fits into their affordability agendas during a forum last week. Describing varied strategies, from capping childcare costs to reducing federal oversight of providers, the candidates pitched a range of visions for ways to lower costs for families.
The federal government is sending election observers to two New Hampshire cities as part of what it says will be the largest election observation effort in history. Shown here is an unoccupied observer area at a polling location in Nashua during the November 2024 election. (Photo by Will Steinfeld/New Hampshire Bulletin)
By Will Skipworth
The U.S. Department of Justice will be visiting polls in Manchester and Nashua during next week’s elections, the department told election officials, in a repeat of their visit during September’s primary election. The Trump administration is planning to send over 1,000 monitors across all 50 states in what Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon is calling “the biggest DOJ election observer effort in history.”
By Ariana Figueroa and Shauneen Miranda
Tens of millions of Americans have already made their way to the ballot box as early voting is underway in a midterm election that will determine control of the House and the Senate, possibly flipping one or both from Republicans to Democrats. The current tally is on track to surpass early voting in the 2022 midterm elections, said Michael McDonald, a professor of political science at University of Florida.
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