Q: How are you feeling today?
Joyce Craig: You know, this has been a wonderful campaign traveling across the state meeting with residents and all all corners and really am grateful for the support that we’ve received. And I know there’s a tremendous opportunity to do things better in New Hampshire but it’s been a very negative tenor in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Q. Do you feel that that’ll impact people today, and in the general election?
JC: I guess that’s for us to see and it’s up to the voters today on on who they want to vote for. I stand behind Manchester and I am really disgusted with the Democrats and Republicans, who are attacking the largest city in the state. We and many others have worked extremely hard to address our state by challenges with very little support from the state. And honestly, that’s one of the reasons why I’m running because I understand the challenges at the local level and as Governor want to really strengthen and support our local communities and ensure that residents across our state have the opportunity to succeed.
Q. What are your thoughts on Kelly Ayotte?
JC: She’s an extreme threat to New Hampshire. She has profited off of our community’s most pressing issues. She is an extreme threat to reproductive freedom. She’s made millions of dollars sitting on a corporate board for Blackstone at a time when they’re jacking up rents and pushing people out of their homes. And in New Hampshire, we face an extreme housing crisis. When she was AG she refused to prosecute Purdue Pharma and then took campaign funds from the Sackler family, and after Sandy Hook, when 20 children were shot and murdered, she was the only senator in New England not to vote for universal background checks.
She does not represent the best interests of residents in New Hampshire, and we all need to remember that as we head into the ballot heading to vote today. I am the strongest candidate to beat Kelly Ayotte. I’ve flipped a seat from red to blue. I have the campaign structure in place and we’ve raised the money to take on Kelly in the end. That’s what we have to focus on; who can beat Kelly Ayotte – and I can.