New Hampshire Endorsements

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates and their campaigns looked for endorsements from federal, statewide and local elected officials as well as former elected officials and prominent figures.  The New Hampshire State House, with 400 members, is the largest legislative chamber in the United States, affording plenty of opportunities to pick up endorsements. One hundred and seventy of the 233 Democratic House members (73.0%) publically endorsed candidates who were still active on primary day, Feb. 11. These endorsements did not prove to be a good indicator of the primary results; Warren, who had the most endorsements by House members finished fourth and Biden, who had the second most, finished fifth. In addition, ten of 14 state Senators (71.4%), two executive councilors and one member of Congress endorsed active candidates.  (see also 2007-08)

Federal U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas (CD-1) U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (CD-2) BUTTIGIEG 01/15/20 (+) State > Executive Council District 1 - Michael Cryans District 2 - Andru Volinsky SANDERS 12/27/19 (+) District 5 - Deborah Pignatelli KLOBUCHAR 07/18/19 (+)

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Senate Democrats (24 seats: 14D, 10R) +  twitter

Name	Position	District - City/Town
Donna Soucy	President	18 - Manchester	BIDEN	01/10/20	+
Martha Fuller Clark	President Pro Tem.	21 - Portsmouth	BIDEN	01/09/20	+
Dan Feltes	Majority Leader	15 - Concord
David Watters	Dep. Maj. Leader	4 - Dover	BOOKER > PATRICK	04/08/19 01/24/20	+ +
Lou D'Allesandro	Chair, Fin. Comm.	20 - Manchester	BIDEN	08/17/19	>
Kevin Cavanaugh		16 - Manchester	WARREN	01/21/20	+
Shannon Chandley		11 - Amherst
Jeanne Diestch		9 - Peterborough	KLOBUCHAR	09/13/19	>
Martha Hennessey		5 - Hanover	BOOKER > BUTTIGIEG	09/13/19 01/22/20	+ +
Jay Kahn		10 - Keene	KLOBUCHAR	12/31/19	+
Melanie Levesque		12 - Nashua	BIDEN	01/27/20	+
Jon Morgan		23 - Brentwood	BOOKER	04/08/19	+
Cindy Rosenwald		13 - Nashua	WARREN	02/07/20	+
Tom Sherman		24 - Rye

7 men, 7 women.

10 of 14 (71.4%) endorsed active candidates:

BIDEN (4)	BOOKER (3)	BUTTIGIEG (1)	KLOBUCHAR (2)	PATRICK (1)	WARREN (2)
Lou D'Allesandro Martha Fuller Clark Melanie Levesque Donna Soucy	Martha Hennessey Jon Morgan David Watters	Martha Hennessey*	Jeanne Diestch Jay Kahn	David Watters*	Kevin Cavanaugh Cindy Rosenwald

House Democrats (400 seats: 233D, 164R, 1L and 2v)* +  twitter
Democrats by County:  Belknap 2, Carroll 8, Cheshire 21, Coos 6, Grafton 23, Hillsborough 80, Merrimack 31, Rockingham 29, Strafford 27, Sullivan 6. .numbers

BELKNAP (2) David Huot (Laconia) BIDEN Charlie St. Clair (Laconia) BIDEN CARROLL (8) Thomas Buco (Conway) Anita Burroughs (Glen) BOOKER > BIDEN Edward Butler (Hart's Location) WARREN Edith DesMarais (Wolfeboro) KLOBUCHAR Harrison Kanzler (No. Conway) BUTTIGIEG Jerry Knirk (Freedom) WARREN Susan Ticehurst (Tamworth) Stephen Woodcock (Ctr. Conway) DELANEY	CHESHIRE (21) Michael Abbott (Hinsdale) Richard Ames (Jaffrey) HARRIS > WARREN Paul Berch (Westmoreland) BIDEN John Bordenet (Keene) Daniel Eaton (Stoddard) Barry Faulkner (Swanzey) BIDEN Donovan Fenton (Keene) Jennie Gomarlo (Swanzey) KLOBUCHAR Cathryn Harvey (Spofford) BIDEN Douglas Ley (Jaffrey) KLOBUCHAR John Mann (Alstead) BUTTIGIEG Davide Meader (Keene) David Morrill (Keene) BUTTIGIEG Henry Parkhurst (Winchester) William Pearson (Keene) Joe Schapiro (Keene) Sandy Swinburne (Marlborough) WARREN Bruce Tatro (Swanzey) BOOKER Craig Thompson (Harrisville) WARREN Sparky Von Plinsky (Keene) SANDERS Lucy Weber (Walpole)	COOS (6) William Hatch (Gorham) BIDEN Larry Laflamme (Berlin) WARREN Wayne Moynihan (Dummer) SANDERS Henry Noel (Berlin) Yvonne Thomas (Berlin) WARREN Edith Tucker (Randolph) WARREN
GRAFTON (23) Richard Abel (W. Lebanon) WARREN Joshua Adjutant (Ashland) SANDERS Susan Almy (Lebanon) BUTTIGIEG Polly Campion (Etna) KLOBUCHAR Francesca Diggs (Rumney) WARREN Roger Dontonville (Enfield) BOOKER > KLOBUCHAR Timothy Egan (Sugar Hill) BIDEN Sallie Fellows (Holderness) SANDERS Susan Ford (Easton) GILLIBRAND > WARREN Elaine French (Littleton) WARREN Timothy Josephson (Canaan) WARREN Kevin Maes (Rumney) Linda Massimilla (Littleton) Mary Jane Mulligan (Hanover) WARREN Garrett Muscatel (Hanover) BOOKER > BUTTIGIEG Sharon Nordgren (Hanover) WARREN Richard Osborne (Campton) WARREN Dennis Ruprecht (Landaff) BIDEN Suzanne Smith (Hebron) WARREN Laurel Stavis (W. Lebanon) WARREN Jerry Stringham (Lincoln) DELANEY > KLOBUCHAR George Sykes (Lebanon) WARREN Joyce Weston (Plymouth) WARREN	HILLSBOROUGH Manchester (29) Robert Backus BOOKER > BENNET Benjamin Baroody Jane Beaulieu HARRIS > SANDERS Donald Bouchard BOOKER Amanda Bouldin SANDERS Andrew Bouldin SANDERS Jacqueline Chretien WARREN Erika Connors WARREN Patricia Cornell HARRIS > BIDEN Kathy Desjardin KLOBUCHAR Linda DiSilvestro Mary Freitas BIDEN Jeffrey Goley BIDEN Willis Griffith KLOBUCHAR Heidi Hamer Mary Heath BENNET Christopher Herbert WARREN Jean Jeudy Nicole Klein-Knight WARREN Richard Komi BIDEN Diane Langley BUTTIGIEG Patrick Long WARREN Israel Piedra BUTTIGIEG Joshua Query Barbara Shaw Timothy Smith SANDERS Kendall Snow KLOBUCHAR Constance Van Houten WARREN Matthew Wilhelm BUTTIGIEG	HILLSBOROUGH Nashua (27) Paul Bergeron William Bordy Skip Cleaver SANDERS Bruce Cohen BIDEN David Cote BIDEN Fred Davis Sherry Dutzy BENNET Manny Espitia CASTRO Kenneth Gidge Linda Harriott-Gathright Greg Indruk Martin Jack KLOBUCHAR Mark King SANDERS Patricia Klee BOOKER Latha Mangipudi BOOKER > KLOBUCHAR Sue Newman BUTTIGIEG Ray Newman BUTTIGIEG Frances Nutter-Upham SANDERS Allison Nutting-Wong WARREN Michael O'Brien BIDEN Michael Pedersen WARREN switched to KLOBUCHAR Janice Schmidt SANDERS Catherine Sofikitis SANDERS Deb Stevens  WARREN Laura Telerski Dan Toomey SANDERS Suzanne Vail WARREN
HILLSBOROUGH other 24 Chris Balch (Wilton) SANDERS Jennifer Bernet (Wilton) WARREN James Bosman (Francestown) WARREN Paul Dargie (Milford) BUTTIGIEG Brett Hall (Brookline) Peter Leishman (Peterborough) BOOKER Joelle Martin (Milford) HARRIS > BUTTIGIEG Kat McGee (Hollis) WARREN Donna Mombourquette (New Boston) BUTTIGIEG Sue Mullen (Bedford) Nancy Murphy (Merrimack) SANDERS Megan Murray (Amherst) BIDEN Peter Petrigno (Milford) BUTTIGIEG Daniel Pickering (Hancock) Marjorie Porter (Hillsborough) Julie Radhakrishnan (Amherst) BIDEN Cole Riel (Goffstown) BUTTIGIEG Rosemary Rung (Merrimack) BOOKER Michelle St. John (Hollis) BUTTIGIEG Kathryn Stack (Merrimack) WARREN Wendy Thomas (Merrimack) WARREN Ivy Vann (Peterborough) WARREN Kermit Williams (Wilton) BIDEN David Woodbury (New Boston) BUTTIGIEG	MERRIMACK (31) Christy Barlett (Concord) BOOKER Ryan Buchanan (Concord) SANDERS Clyde Carson (Warner) David Doherty (Pembroke) WARREN Karen Ebel (New London) KLOBUCHAR Arthur Ellison (Concord) SANDERS Samantha Fox (Bow) WARREN Joyce Fulweiler (Northfield) BENNET David Karrick (Warner) Connie Lane (Concord) WARREN David Luneau (Hopkinton) BENNET James MacKay (Concord) Rebecca McWilliams (Concord) WARREN Howard Moffett (Canterbury) BIDEN Mel Myler (Contoocook) Roderick Pimentel (Henniker) KLOBUCHAR Beth Richards (Concord) WARREN Beth Rodd (Bradford) BIDEN Katherine Rogers (Concord) BOOKER > WARREN George Saunderson (Loudon) Thomas Schamberg (Wilmot) Dianne Schuett (Pembroke) Kristina Schultz (Concord) WARREN Steve Shurtleff (Penacook) BIDEN Timothy Soucy (Concord) BIDEN Alan Turcotte (Allenstown) Mary Jane Wallner (Concord) WARREN Mary Beth Walz (Bow) Safiya Wazir (Concord) WARREN Kenneth Wells (Andover) Gary Woods (Bow) BENNET	ROCKINGHAM (29) Debra Altschiller (Stratham) WARREN Skip Berrien (Exeter) KLOBUCHAR Lisa Bunker (Exeter) WARREN Patricia Bushway (Hampton) KLOBUCHAR Michael Cahill (Newmarket) BENNET Jacuqeline Cali-Pitts (Portsmouth) BOOKER > BIDEN David Coursin (Northwood) Robert Renny Cushing (Hampton) SANDERS Charlotte DiLorenzo (Newmarket) Michael Edgar (Hampton) BIDEN Mary Eisner (Derry) Julie Gilman (Exeter) WARREN Gaby Grossman (Exeter) WARREN Jaci Grote (Rye) BIDEN Tamara Le (No. Hampton) WARREN Tom Loughman (Hampton) BUTTIGIEG Patricia Lovejoy (Stratham) BIDEN Jim Maggiore (No. Hampton) BIDEN Dennis Malloy (Greenland) Rebecca McBeath (Portsmouth) WARREN LIz McConnell (Brentwood) WARREN David Meuse (Portsmouth) WARREN Kate Murray (New Castle) BOOKER Laura Pantelakos (Portsmouth) BIDEN Ellen Read (Newmarket) SANDERS Peter Somssich (Portsmouth) WARREN Mark Vallone (Epping) BIDEN Gerald Ward (Portsmouth) WARREN Anne Warner (Londonderry)
STRAFFORD (27) Peter Bixby (Dover) WARREN Gerri Cannon (Somersworth) BOOKER > BUTTIGIEG Wendy Chase (Rollinsford) WARREN Casey Conley (Dover) WARREN Donna Ellis (Rochester) Kristina Fargo (Dover) Timothy Fontneau (Rochester) Sherry Frost (Dover) SANDERS Amanda Gourgue (Lee) Chuck Grassie (Rochester) WARREN Peg Higgins (Rochester) Timothy Horrigan (Durham) BOOKER Sandra Keans (Rochester) KLOBUCHAR Cam Kenney (Durham) SANDERS Cassandra Levesque (Barrington) BOOKER Linn Opderbecke (Dover) BOOKER > KLOBUCHAR Cecilia Rich (Somersworth) BOOKER > SANDERS Jeffrey Salloway (Lee) BOOKER > WARREN Catt Sandler (Somersworth) BIDEN Peter Schmidt (Dover) Marjorie Smith (Durham) BENNET Thomas Southworth (Dover) Judith Spang (Durham) Matthew Towne (Barrington) WARREN Susan Treleaven (Dover) WARREN Kenneth Vincent (Somersworth) BIDEN Janet Wall (Madbury) BIDEN	SULLIVAN (6) John Cloutier (Claremont) BIDEN Gary Merchant (Claremont) Andrew O'Hearne (Claremont) BUTTIGIEG Lee Oxenham (Plainfield) BOOKER > WARREN Brian Sullivan (Grantham) WARREN Linda Tanner (Georges Mills) HARRIS > WARREN	.numbers Democrats by Gender: 127 men, 106 women

The first formal state Rep. endorsement came on Feb. 25, 2019 when Castro announced state Rep. Manny Espitia (Nashua) as his state director.
170 of the 233 Democratic state reps. (73.0%) publicly endorsed candidates who were active as of primary day. Elizabeth Warrren had by far the most at 64 followed by Joe Biden at 34 and Bernie Sanders at 23. Cory Booker had attracted a lot of endorsements, 21, before he ended his campaign on Jan. 13; at least half of them went on to endorse another candidate.

BENNET (+) 8	BIDEN (+)  34	BOOKER (+)  21	BUTTIGIEG (+)  20	CASTRO (+)  1	DELANEY (+)  2
Bob Backus* Michael Cahill Sherry Dutzy Joyce Fulweiler Mary Heath David Luneau Marjorie Smith Gary Woods	Paul Berch Anita Burroughs* Jackie Cali-Pitts* John Cloutier Bruce Cohen Patty Cornell* David Cote  Mike Edgar Tim Egan Barry Faulkner Mary Freitas  Jeff Goley Jaci Grote Cathryn Harvey  Bill Hatch David Huot Richard Komi Patricia Lovejoy Jim Maggiore Howard Moffett Megan Murray  Mike O'Brien Laura Pantelakos Julie Radhakrishnan Beth Rodd Denny Ruprecht Catt Sandler Steve Shurtleff  Tim Soucy Charlie St. Clair Mark Vallone Ken Vincent Janet Wall Kermit Williams	Bob Backus Christy Bartlett Don Bouchard Anita Burroughs Jackie Cali-Pitts Gerry Cannon Roger Dontonville Tim Horrigan* Patricia Klee Peter Leishman Cassie Levesque Latha Mangipudi Kate Murray Garrett Muscatel Linn Opderbecke Lee Walker Oxenham Cecilia Rich Katherine Rogers Rosemary Rung Jeffrey Salloway Bruce Tatro	Susan Almy Gerri Cannon* Paul Dargie Harrison Kanzler Diane Langley Tom Loughman John Mann Joelle Martin* D. Mombourquette Garrett Muscatel* Dave Morrill Sue Newman Ray Newman Andrew O'Hearne Peter Petrigno Israel Piedra Cole Riel Michelle St. John Matt Wilhelm David Woodbury	Manny Espitia	Stephen Woodcock Jerry Stringham
GILLIBRAND (+)  1	HARRIS (+)  5	KLOBUCHAR (+)  19	O'ROURKE  1	SANDERS (+)  23	WARREN (+)  65
Sue Ford	Dick Ames Jane Beaulieu Patricia Cornell Joelle Martin Linda Tanner	Skip Berrien Patricia Bushway Polly Campion Kathy DesJardin Edie DesMarais Roger Dontonville* Karen Ebel Jennie Gornario Willis Griffith Marty Jack Sandy Keans Doug Ley Latha Mangipudi* Linn Opderbecke* Michael Pederson* Rod Pimental Ken Snow Jerry Stringham* Lucy Weber	Tim Horrigan >	Josh Adjutant > Chris Balch Jane Beaulieu* Amanda Bouldin Andrew Bouldin Ryan Buchanan Wendy Chase* Skip Cleaver Renny Cushing Art Ellison Sallie Fellows Sherry Frost Cam Kenney Mark King Wayne Moynihan Nancy Murphy F. Nutter-Upham Ellen Read Cecilia Rich* Jan Schmidt Tim Smith Catherine Sofikitis Dan Toomey Sparky Von Plinsky	Richard Abel Debra Altschiller Dick Ames*  Jennifer Bernet  Peter Bixby  Jim Bosman Lisa Bunker Ed Butler Lisa Bunker Wendy Chase Jackie Chretien Casey Conley  Erika Connors Francesca Diggs Dave Doherty Sue Ford* Sam Fox Elaine French Julie Gilman Chuck Grassie Gaby Grossman Christopher Herbert Peg Higgins Tim Josephson Nicole Klein Knight Jerry Knirk Larry LaFlamme Connie Lane Tamara Le Pat Long Becky McBeath Liz McConnell Kat McGee Rebecca McWilliams David Meuse Mary Jane Mulligan Sharon Nordgren  Allison Nutting-Wong  Dick Osborne Lee Oxenham* Michael Pederson  Beth Richards  Katherine Rogers Jeffrey Salloway* Kris Schultz Suzanne Smith Peter Somssich Kathy Stack Laurel Stavis Deb Stevens Brian Sullivan Sandy Swinburne George Sykes Linda Tanner* Wendy Thomas Yvonne Thomas Craig Thompson Matt Towne  Susan Treleaven Edith Tucker Sue Vail Connie Van Houten Ivy Vann Mary Jane Wallner  Gerry Ward Safiya Wazir Joyce Weston
YANG
Tim Horrigan*

*See:
Hunter Woodall and Will Weissert.  "Low-tier candidates could threaten Sanders in New Hampshire." AP, Sept. 16, 2019.  "Chase said following the convention that publicizing her endorsement was premature and that she is still considering whether to vote for Sanders, Warren, Yang, or for South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg."  On Jan. 23 she announced her endorsement of Warren.
Although Rep. Peg Higgins signed on to Warren's Nov. 2019 letter, she did not make a public endorsement in the primary campaignn. (confirmed Feb. 11 phone conversation)

Rep. Michael Pedersen (Nashua) initially backed Warren but switched to Klobuchar:
see: Amanda Golden.  "Two New Hampshire state reps switch their support to Amy Klobuchar."  MSNBC, Jan. 16, 2020.

House members who endorsed a candidate who later dropped out and have made a second endorsement:
Rep. Sue Ford:  Gillibrand, subsequently endorsed Warren
Rep. Dick Ames:  Harris, subsequently endorsed Warren
Rep. Linda Tanner:  Harris, subsequently endorsed Warren
Rep. Lee Oxenham:  Booker, subsequently endorsed Warren
Rep. Katherine Rogers:  Booker, subsequently endorsed Warren
Rep. Jeff Salloway:  Booker, subsequenty endorsed Warren

Rep. Anita Burroughs:  Booker, subsequently endorsed Biden
Rep. Jackie Cali-Pitts:  Booker, subsequently endorsed Biden
Rep. Patricia Cornell:  Harris, subsequently endorsed Biden

Rep. Linn Opderbecke:  Booker, subsequently endorsed Klobuchar
Rep. Roger Dontonville:  Booker, subsequently endorsed Klobuchar
Rep. Jerry Stringham: Delaney, subsequently endorsed Klobuchar

Rep. Gerri Cannon:  Booker, subsequently endorsed Buttigieg
Rep. Garrett Muscatel: Booker, subsequently endorsed Buttigieg
Rep. Joelle Martin: Harris, subsequently endorsed Buttigieg

Rep. Cecilia Rich:  Booker, subsequently endorsed Sanders
Rep. Jane Beaulieu: Harris, subsequently endorsed Sanders

Rep. Bob Backus:  Booker, subsequently endorsed Bennet

Rep. Tim Horrigan:  O'Rourke, then Booker, then Yang



Democratic Leadership

Name	Position	District - City/Town
Stephen Shurtleff	Speaker	Penacook	BIDEN
Lucy Weber	Speaker Pro Tem.	Walpole	KLOBUCHAR
Karen Ebel	Deputy Speaker	New London	KLOBUCHAR
Douglas A. Ley	Majority Leader	Jaffrey	KLOBUCHAR
Marjorie Porter	Dep. Maj. Leader	Hillsborough
Mary Heath	Maj. Floor Leader	Manchester	BENNET
Rebecca McBeath	Dep. Maj. Flr. Ldr.	Portsmouth	WARREN
5 Assist. Maj. Leaders
Jane Beaulieu		Manchester	HARRIS > SANDERS
Paul Berch		Westmoreland	BIDEN
Susan Ford		Easton	GILLIBRAND > WARREN
Wayne Moynihan		Dummer	SANDERS
William Pearson		Keene
7 AssistMajFlrLdrs
Michael Cahill		Newmarket	BENNET
Erika Connors		Manchester
Patricia Cornell		Manchester	HARRIS > BIDEN
Tamera Le		North Hampton	WARREN
Dennis Malloy		Greenland
Latha Mangipudi		Nashua	BOOKER > KLOBUCHAR
Linda Tanner		Georges Mills	HARRIS > WARREN

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How good an indicator are state legislative endorsements?  As the third largest legislature, the New Hampshire House is a very representative body.  In the Jan. 8, 2008 Democratic primary 156 endorsements by Democratic state reps. were noted as of Dec. 27, 2007: Clinton 50 (32.1%), Obama 40 (25.6%), Edwards 32 (20.5%), Richardson 13, Dodd 11, Biden 8 and Kucinich 2 (details).  This data is not complete as it misses the last 11 days before the primary.  Also, Biden and Dodd dropped out after the Iowa caucuses and some of their endorsers may have gone for the remaining candidates.  Additionally, Independent voters are an important voting group in New Hampshire.  Despite these shortcomings, the endorsements tally does reflect the primary result: Clinton won the primary with 39.1% to 36.5% for Obama and 16.9% for Edwards.

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