Harris to visit brewery in North Hampton to tout policies aimed at bolstering small businesses
Vice President Kamala Harris will make a campaign stop at a North Hampton brewery Wednesday afternoon, where she’s expected to announce proposals aimed at bolstering small businesses.
Her remarks will begin around 2:45 p.m. at Throwback Brewery, according to the campaign. Among the speakers will be Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan, 1st District U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, and the co-founders of the brewery, Annette Lee and Nicole Carrier, the campaign said.
The campaign highlighted the ways the brewery has benefited from the Biden-Harris administration agenda: a credit initiative for small businesses in the American Rescue Plan allowed for the opening of the North Hampton location, it said, and funding from the Rural Energy for America Program that helped fund solar panel installation at the business.
President Joe Biden won North Hampton by 532 votes in 2020, 1,987 to 1,455, over former President Donald Trump. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the town, with a population less than 5,000 people, by a smaller margin of 114 votes over Trump.
Trump speculated on his social media app Truth Social Tuesday that “Comrade Kamala Harris sees there are problems for her campaign in New Hampshire” because of Biden’s choice to skip the primary. He won, instead, through a write-in campaign.
“Additionally, the cost of living in New Hampshire is through the roof, their energy bills are some of highest in the country, and their housing market is the most unaffordable in history,” Trump wrote. “I protected New Hampshire’s First-In-The-Nation Primary and ALWAYS will!”
Harris maintains a significant lead over Trump in the state, polls show. Since Biden’s exit from the campaign in July, separate polls from Emerson College, the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, and Saint Anselm College Survey Center have shown Harris ahead by a five to seven point margin.