Megan Lebowitz is a politics reporter for NBC News.
Former Sen. Kelly Ayotte has won the New Hampshire governor’s race, NBC News projects, defeating Democrat Joyce Craig to keep the seat in Republican hands. Ayotte will succeed Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, who declined to run for a fifth two-year term. She was New Hampshire’s first female attorney general before she went on to serve in the Senate for one term. Ayotte lost her re-election battle in 2016 to now-Sen. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, by only about a thousand votes.
Sununu, the outgoing GOP governor, is a vocal anti-Trump critic. In 2017, Craig became the first woman elected mayor of Manchester, a position she held for six years. She got her start in politics by serving on the Board of School Committee in Manchester, before serving as an alderman for six years. Craig sought to paint Ayotte as “extreme” and campaigned on codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade in the Granite State.
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