ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As he called into Joe Piscopo’s radio show from a diner last week, and then trash-talked both political parties over a bacon-and-egg-white omelet, Corey Lewandowski demonstrated why he’d be a fitting Republican Senate nominee on the 2020 ticket with President Trump — and why that prospect appalls New Hampshire’s more traditional G.O.P. leaders. Mr. Lewandowski, the president’s former campaign manager, sounded every bit like his pugilistic political patron as he unleashed a blur of attacks and insinuations in a manner reminiscent of an out-of-control garden hose. He called Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the Democrat whose seat he is considering running for, ‘a partisan hack.’ He accused Judd Gregg, a well-liked former Republican senator and governor, of taking ‘a military deferment for bed-wetting’ to avoid serving in Vietnam. And he savaged New Hampshire’s mainstream conservative leaders, saying they ‘ran this state into the ground’ and left the party with no congressional seats and out of power in the state legislature.”
–Jonathan Martin, “Will Trumpism Take Deeper Root in New Hampshire?,” The New York Times online, September 3, 2019