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Bolduc, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general, said during a
hard-fought Republican primary that he believed Republican
Donald Trump's false claims that he had won the election,
despite no credible evidence of widespread fraud.
But one day after narrowly winning the primary, Bolduc said he
had revised his opinion.
"I have come to the conclusion, and I want to be definitive on
this, the election was not stolen," Bolduc said in an interview
on Fox News.
"Elections have consequences. And unfortunately, President Biden
is the legitimate president of this country," he added.
Bolduc is vying to unseat incumbent Democratic Senator Maggie
Hassan in the Nov. 8 midterm election, in which control of
Congress is at stake.
Independent analysts say his hard-right views could make it
difficult to win over independent-minded voters in the
politically competitive state of New Hampshire.
Aside from his false claims about the 2020 election, Bolduc has
questioned whether the FBI should be abolished following its
August search of Trump's Florida estate, where agents seized a
cache of classified documents.
New Hampshire is one of seven key battlegrounds along with
Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Arizona and
Nevada that analysts believe will determine control of the
100-seat Senate. The Senate is currently divided 50-50, with
Democrats holding a majority thanks to Vice President Kamala
Harris' tie-breaking vote.
(Reporting by Andy Sullivan; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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