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Donald Trump
and New Hampshire
Politics
Christopher J. Galdieri
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Christopher J. Galdieri
Donald Trump
and New Hampshire
Politics
Christopher J. Galdieri
Department of Political Science
Saint Anselm College
Manchester, NH, USA
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For Sean Broom, Emily A. Peters Riner, Theo Groh, Ashley Motta, Ted
York, Nick Coe, Emily Wiklund Hayhurst, Donald Stokes, Nolan Varee,
Liz Kulig, and all my other former students who planted themselves
like trees in 2018.
A
cknowledgements
First and foremost, thanks to Luke Perry of Utica College for invit-
ing me to be a part of this book series, and to Michelle Chen, John
Stegner, and the rest of the editorial, marketing, and production teams at
Palgrave for turning a manuscript into a book.
The bulk of the writing of this book took place during a sabbatical
from Saint Anselm College during the spring semester of 2019. Thank
you to the Dean’s Office and the Politics Department at Saint Anselm
for making that possible. Thanks are further due to the Dean’s Office
for the summer research grant which supported the final preparation of
this manuscript. And thank you to the Fr. Peter J. Guerin, O.S.B. Center
for Teaching Excellence at Saint Anselm College: I started work on this
project during its 2018 faculty writing challenge, and finished the first
draft of the last chapter during the 2019 challenge. Community and
accountability help make the solitary task of writing lighter. The atten-
tive reader will note many references to events that took place at Saint
Anselm, many of which I witnessed firsthand. These are not attempts to
feather my nest: Saint Anselm really does host an unbelievable amount
of primary activity, visible and otherwise. For someone who read Dayton
Duncan’s Grassroots as a teenager and could only imagine what the
New Hampshire primary must be like, working at its epicenter so many
years later is a level of wish fulfillment few people are lucky enough to
experience.
Special thanks are due to the University of New Hampshire Franklin
Pierce Law Center Library, where I went to write nearly every day of my
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sabbatical, for allowing me to test its reciprocity agreement with Saint
Anselm to the very limit. Thanks to the staff of the library for their hos-
pitality and kindness and goodwill, to the confused law students who
collectively decided I must be a nontraditional law student they hadn’t
taken any classes with, and to everyone else at the law school who
decided anyone spending so much time there must have business being
there. Additional thanks are due to the True Brew Café at Gibson’s
Bookstore in Concord, where I sometimes worked on breaks from going
to the law library. Support your local independent bookstores.
Thank you to my colleagues in the Politics Department, Erik Cleven,
Christine Gustafson, Anne Holthoefer, Peter Josephson, Dale Kuehne,
and Jennifer Lucas, as well as Tauna Starbuck Sisco of the Sociology
department, and my many other faculty colleagues who listened to me
talk through writing and research problems and worry about deadlines.
The staff at Geisel Library once again went above and beyond when
it came to tracking down interlibrary loans and obscure data points.
Particular thanks are due to Melinda Malik and to Rebekah Dreyer on
this front. And thank you to Julia Azari, Kevin Parsneau, Kate E. Creevy,
Shirin Deylami, Jack Collens, and Rob Boatright for online or in-person
bull sessions and critiques that helped me work out what I was doing in
this book. Thanks as well to the anonymous reviewers for their construc-
tive feedback.
As is the case for all of my major writing projects, thanks are due to
my Facebook friends for reading and responding to my daily writing
word counts.
Much of the data on primary and general election candidate travel,
events, and endorsements flies beneath the radar of professional media
outlets, but is lovingly and painstakingly preserved by political enthu-
siasts. Thank you to Mike Dec and 4president.org, Eric M. Appleman
and p2016.org, and the masterminds behind Ballotpedia and Daily Kos
Elections for their efforts. Thanks as well to McKenzie St. Germain for
sharing her data on the New Hampshire Democrats’ candidates in 2016
and 2018, and to Theo Groh for putting me in touch with her. And
thank you to David S. Bernstein for reminding me of the “Bill Gardner
Facts” hashtag.
Additional thanks to Timothy Dalton and to Susie Myerson. Thanks
as well to Tracyanne Campbell and Danny Coughlan, to Alicia Witt, to
Pink Martini, and to Lyle Lovett and His Large Band for performing
within driving distance of Concord during the writing of this manuscript.
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Penultimate thanks to my parents, James and Donna Galdieri, and to
my in-laws, Bill Eads and Mary Rainsford Eads, not just for their love
and support but for stepping in to provide emergency child-care during
the homestretch of my writing.
And finally, I thank my family, who have now lived with me through
three major writing ventures and gotten too used to that final stretch
of each venture during which I am blitheringly unaware of everything
going on around me. Thank you to my wife, Katherine Alexandra Eads
Galdieri, our daughter, Veronica Rose Eads Galdieri, and our son,
Alexander Christopher Eads Galdieri, for everything.
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“In 2016, Donald Trump and New Hampshire seemed like the Odd
Couple of presidential politics. With numerous insights, Christopher
Galdieri explains convincingly why the Granite State proved indispensa-
ble to Trump’s success. If you want a clear snapshot of the state of play
in this key primary state, this is the place to go.”
—Dante Scala, Professor, Political Science, University
of New Hampshire, USA
“Donald Trump and New Hampshire Politics is a definitive discussion
of the political success of Donald Trump in a uniquely important state.
Galdieri provides a comprehensive treatment of everything that puts
New Hampshire in a central place in American politics. In doing so, he
helps us understand why Trump was successful and how he has changed
American politics.”
—David A. M. Peterson, Professor, Political Science,
Iowa State University, USA
“Chris Galdieri’s Donald Trump and New Hampshire Politics shows
how important the Granite State was in the 2016 election. This lively,
well-written book raises provocative questions about how the American
presidential primary system works and about how it has changed over the
past few years. It is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how
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