ICYMI: Chris Pappas Joins The Parnas Perspective to Discuss the Fight for New Hampshire’s Senate Seat

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Congressman Chris Pappas joined host Aaron Parnas on The Parnas Perspective to discuss New Hampshire’s must-win U.S. Senate race. Pappas highlighted the need for a new generation of leadership in Washington, his campaign’s refusal to accept corporate PAC money, his concerns about John Sununu’s ties to the Jeffrey Epstein files, and the importance of holding Donald Trump and his administration accountable.

During the interview, Pappas outlined his vision for lowering costs, reforming a broken political system, and building a coalition capable of defeating John Sununu and delivering for Granite Staters in one of the country’s most important Senate contests.

Watch HERE and read more below. 

On the Stakes of New Hampshire’s Senate Race

  • “New Hampshire is a decidedly purple state. Republicans recruited someone to run who’s been in the Senate before. He’s got a big family name — Sununu — that’s very familiar to the voters of New Hampshire. So we’ve got some work to do to fight back against the influx of outside special interest money that’s flooding into New Hampshire right now. They’re spending tens of millions of dollars on the airwaves to try to flip the seat red and expand Donald Trump’s majority in the Senate. But people are feeling incredibly unsettled about the economy, about the direction of things in Washington, about Donald Trump’s leadership, and my opponent John Sununu stands with Trump on all the issues that are making people’s lives worse. We’ve got a great message to deliver as long as we can get the word out and not be totally swamped by special interests and super PACs, we’ve got a path to victory here in a tough state in New Hampshire.”

On Not Taking a Dime of Corporate PAC Money

  • “I’m refusing corporate PAC money in my campaign. That’s what I have done throughout my time running for Congress. I think it’s such an important value to be able to state clearly to voters that you want to change the way our campaign finance system works. We have seen an explosion in the wake of Citizens United of billions of dollars of dark money that’s spent now, election after election, and it is tilting the playing field so far away from everyday voters and drowning out the kinds of messages that are going to make their lives better.”
  • “We’re seeing it already in our race, whether it’s groups like Americans for Prosperity, who represent Big Oil or special interests that represent Wall Street and [Big] Pharma. We have got to break the linkage between political spending and our ability to get things done for people, to build a fairer economy, to lower costs, to provide health care for Americans.”

On Bringing Generational Change to Washington

  • “We need generational change. We need to see a passing of the torch. We need new voices around the table in the Senate, in the House, in government, all across the country, from state legislatures to city halls. The fact is, this is a moment of great urgency. Our democracy is under attack every day. We’ve got to fight back with the urgency that the moment requires, and so I think that this is a time where we all should be thinking about how we can add value, what we can do to defend what’s really critical at this moment, making sure that we’re fighting to lower costs and build a fairer economy, to take on a corrupt president to defend personal freedoms — we can’t do that with one hand tied behind our back, or if we’re not putting our best, most authentic voices front and center.” 
  • “I know New Hampshire and I understand the values of this state, and how we can build a coalition of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans to hold a tough Senate seat and change the dynamics in Washington. That’s why I wanted to take on this fight, and I think this can’t just be about confronting Trump. It has to fundamentally be about how we get to a better place in our politics, how we reform a broken political system, how we fix and unrig the economy.”

On John Sununu and the Epstein Files

  • “Sununu hasn’t been honest with the voters of New Hampshire. He was caught in a lie by the Washington Post. […] There’s more that we need to learn about this. It’s clear that Sununu wants to just skirt past this and not acknowledge the fact that he lied on camera, that he’s trying to misrepresent the truth. I think voters here in New Hampshire deserve to know everything that he knows about this. What Congress passed is a really significant bipartisan vote, and it was not a suggestion to the administration. It’s a legal requirement for them to produce the documents, they’re continuing to stonewall and not giving Americans the full picture, and certainly not working to provide the kind of justice that the survivors deserve. So I hope people will continue speaking out on this. But people who are members of this Epstein class, they’ve got to come clean and tell us what they know.”

On Opposing the Confirmation of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche

  • “[Blanche] pretends to be the president’s lawyer and not the head of an independent Department of Justice, which is traditionally how the Attorney General has operated. So I don’t see how any of these nominees from the president have the right credibility or the right sort of vision of where our government needs to go. And Todd Blanche is a great example of this. He’s someone who’s going to carry water for Donald Trump each and every day.”
  • “The fact is, there’s a loyalty test for all these nominations. Whether it’s someone to be a federal judge, whether it’s a cabinet position or a lower-level position in the federal government, everyone is selected just based on whether or not they’ll be loyal to the very end for Donald Trump, not based on their competence, their experience, the strengths that they bring to the job.”
  • “We have to continue to hold the line against nominees like this that just have no business serving in a position like this.”

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