Scott Brown, former Trump ambassador, first major republican of the NH Senate race

EXCLUSIVE – To say that he wanted to help secure the future of America and provide results for the families of New Hampshire, the former ambassador and former senator Scott Brown launched a republican campaign of the Senate in the New England Swing State.

“My life was American history, but I am concerned about what America will look like my four grandchildren – and all yours,” said Brown in a campaign video announcement, which was shared first on a national scale with Fox News.

Brown is a former neighboring Massachusetts senator and the 2014 GOP Senate candidate in New Hampshire who was then American ambassador to New Zealand in the first administration of President Donald Trump. He became the first great republican to jump in the battle of 2026 to succeed in retirement from the longtime Democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen.

It should be a competitive and expensive race for a seat that the GOP works to switch from blue to red. New Hampshire, as well as Georgia and Michigan, are the three highest targets for the Senate Republicans while they aim to extend their majority 53-47 in the room.

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Former Senator Scott Brown speaking during lunch of the Lincoln Gop Day of County Carroll on April 12, 2025, in North Conway, NH (Scott Brown countryside)

While the Republicans benefit from total control of the government of the state of the New Hampshire, the state of granite, for almost a decade, has had a fully democratic delegation of the congress.

And Brown targeted them in an interview with Fox News Digital, arguing that “they are really disconnected from the values ​​of New Hampshire.… I think we can do better.

“I am trying to help save America and protect our advantage from New Hampshire,” added Brown, referring to the economic and social characteristics of the state, which has long attracted it for businesses and residents.

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In his Campaign launch video, Brown criticized the former president Joe Biden and the representative Chris Pappas of the New Hampshire, who, on this early date, seems to have authorized the field in the race for the appointment of the Democratic Party Senate.

Pointing towards what he billed was “soFi, open borders, increasing crime and extreme left -wing policies” of the Biden administration, maintained Brown, “Chris Pappas stayed with Joe Biden at each stage of the path, from the opening of the border to reducing the cost of everything. It’s time to change.”

Pappas quickly retaliated.

“While Scott Brown is looking for another opportunity to make the Wall Street auction and blindly support President Trump and his agenda, I’m still going to put New Hampshire first,” the Congress of four terms said in a statement to Fox News.

The representative Chris Pappas of the New Hampshire announces his attempt to succeed retirement senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democratic colleague, on April 3, 2025, in Manchester, NH (AP photo / Robert F. Bukaty)

Brown has made a handful of trips to the national capital to meet the leaders of the GOP and civil servants, notably the president of the Republican Senate Committee Tim Scott in South Carolina.

And Brown told Fox News that he was dealing with Trump’s political team.

“I support him. I would like to support,” said Brown about his former boss, for which he noted that he had voted in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential elections.

In his announcement video, he added that “President Trump fights every day to straighten the ship”.

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Stressing the military strike that the president launched on Iranian nuclear sites during the weekend weekend, Brown said that Trump’s decision was “brilliant and that he should be congratulated”.

And he criticized Pappas for saying in a press release: “I closely monitors the situation in Iran”.

“There is nothing to watch. The president did the right thing,” said Brown.

The Democratic Party of New Hampshire, in a taste of things to come, targeted Brown.

“Scott Brown is a Trump loyalist who presents himself to the Senate to make the Wall Street auctions and large companies and supports Trump’s reckless agenda of chaotic prices, the evisceration of social security, health insurance and medication, and the push of an extremely abortion program.

Former Senator Scott Brown was interviewed by Fox News Digital on December 24, 2024 in Rye, NH (Fox News / Paul Steinhauser)

While Brown is the first great republican in the race, he may not have the primary field of the GOP for himself.

The republican businessman and lawyer Phil Taub, better known for his swimming with a charitable mission organization supporting veterans, plans a race. Among the others, reflecting on an offer is Senator Dan Innis and the Walter McFarlane businessman.

Brown made the headlines in 2010 as a state senator in the Blue State Massachusetts when he won a special election of the US Senate to serve the rest of the long -time Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy.

After losing his re -election in 2012 against Elizabeth Warren, Brown finally moved to New Hampshire, the state he had spent the first years of his childhood and where his family had roots dating from the colonial era. He launched a Senate campaign for months later and lost aptly against Shaheen in the 2014 elections.

After welcoming almost all of republican presidential candidates in the 2016 cycle at speaking events, he called “No BS Backyard BBQS”, Brown finally approved Trump in the weeks preceding the New Hampshire primary. After Trump was elected president, he appointed Brown as an American ambassador to New Zealand, where the former senator served for four years.

Back in New Hampshire at the end of the first Trump administration, Brown supported his wife Gail, a former journalist and television anchor, while she presented herself at the Congress in 2022.

And the Browns also remained politically active in other respects, welcoming once again many candidates for the republican presidential election in their “backyard barbecues” during the presidential cycle of 2024.

Former ambassador and former senator Scott Brown, on the left, is joined by the governor of Florida Ron Desantis during the presidential appointment of the GOP de Desantis in 2024 in Rye, NH, July 30, 2023 (Fox News / Paul Steinhauser)

Questioned in May 2023 if he considered another race for the Senate, Brown told Fox News Digital, “of course”.

Brown jumped at the end of the 2014 campaign, seven months before election day.

This time, Brown, 65, who participated in nine triathlons last year and who, on average, performs around 40 to 50 concerts per year as a singer and guitarist of the rock group Scott Brown and the diplomats, gives himself a lot of political track.

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Brown has been traveling New Hampshire since the end of last year, meeting republican and conservative groups.

“It’s different from what I ran before,” Brown told Fox News. “I now had the opportunity to go to places which, very frankly, I did not have time to do (in his 2014 campaign). I met people, met everyone.”