Overview
- The former transportation secretary is on a three-day swing through the state with events from Thursday through Saturday, including Manchester, Nashua, Concord and a Friday speech at Dartmouth College.
- He campaigned alongside U.S. Representative Chris Pappas at Manchester’s Puritan Backroom to boost Pappas’s U.S. Senate bid.
- Pressed on a 2028 presidential run, he said he is "a long way" from any decision and plans to spend the next year supporting causes and candidates while meeting voters one-on-one.
- He criticized a proposed ICE processing and detention facility in Merrimack, noting bipartisan local resistance to the project.
- He declined to take a position on restoring New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary status, saying retail politics in the state made him a better public servant.