Trump Supporter Elizabeth Girard Launches New Hampshire Congressional Bid

FIRST ON FOX: A Republican activist who was a leading supporter of President Donald Trump’s bid to win back the White House last year is hoping to end the Republican Party’s losing streak in a key congressional seat.

Elizabeth Girard, who served as co-chair of Trump’s 2024 campaign in New Hampshire, officially launched her campaign Monday for the swing state’s open 1st Congressional District, which Republicans have not captured in more than a decade.

“I will work with President Trump and my colleagues to achieve tangible results and ensure our state’s future remains bright for generations to come,” Girard said in a statement accompanied by video shared nationally for the first time with Fox News Digital.

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Elizabeth Girard, co-chair of President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign in New Hampshire, officially launched her Republican bid for the U.S. House of Representatives in the state’s 1st Congressional District on Monday. (Elizabeth Girard Campaign)

The district, which stretches from Manchester east to Portsmouth and north to the White Mountains, is one of the GOP’s top targets as Republicans aim not only to protect but expand their razor-thin House majority in next year’s midterm elections.

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The 1st District was once one of the most important congressional seats in the country, but Democrats have won five straight elections in the district, including the last four for Rep. Chris Pappas. But with the seat opening as Pappas runs for the Senate in the race to succeed outgoing Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Republicans see an opportunity to flip the House seat.

New Hampshire Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Chris Pappas is interviewed by Fox News Digital July 4, 2025 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

In his announcementGirard pledged to bring “results-driven, common-sense leadership to Washington – and to amplify New Hampshire’s voice.”

She said her priorities, if elected, would include lowering the cost of living and health care in New Hampshire, allowing small businesses and innovators to thrive and “providing care for the veterans and seniors who build and defend this nation.”

Girard joins a crowded Republican primary field that also includes car dealer and real estate developer Anthony DiLorenzo, Hollie Noveletsky — a former New Hampshire GOP vice chair who came in second in the 2024 Republican congressional primary in the district — state Rep. Brian Cole and Bedford Republican Committee Vice Chairwoman Melissa Bailey.

Car dealer and real estate developer Anthony DiLorenzo is running for the Republican nomination in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District. (Anthony DiLorenzo Campaign)

Seven Democrats are running for their party’s nomination, including former Portsmouth City Councilwoman Stefany Shaheen, daughter of Sen. Shaheen, and Maura Sullivan, vice chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, runner-up to Pappas in the 2018 congressional primary, and a U.S. Marine veteran who served in the Department of Defense during former President Barack Obama’s administration.

Girard, a 2016 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, served as president of the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women (NHFRW). She also ran unsuccessfully for the state’s open Republican National Committee seat.

Elizabeth Girard joins former President Donald Trump on the campaign trail in New Hampshire during the 2024 Republican presidential primaries. (Elisabeth Girard)

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Girard was still president of NHFRW when she endorsed Trump at a campaign rally in December 2023, breaking the organization’s long-standing rule of not taking sides in a GOP primary. She quickly resigned from her leadership role with the group to become Trump’s co-chair in New Hampshire.