Rye, New Hampshire – Limited – Scott Brown is in action.
A former senator from neighboring Massachusetts, he was a Republican senatorial candidate for New Hampshire in 2014. He later served as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand for four years during President-elect Trump’s first administration, but in 2026 He is seriously considering running for office and returning to Congress.
If Mr. Brown begins his campaign in the coming months, a high-profile rematch with Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen could be set up, setting up a competitive and costly Senate race in key battleground states. There is a high possibility of a collision.
Brown, 65, has competed in nine triathlons this year and averages 40 to 50 gigs a year as lead singer and guitarist for the rock band Scott Brown and the Diplomats, but all he does is run. I’m not thinking about it. To return to the Senate.
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Scott Brown, a former senator and former ambassador, is considering running for the New Hampshire Senate in 2026 and competed in nine triathlons in 2024. (Scott Brown)
He has been meeting with various Republican and conservative groups in New Hampshire in recent weeks.
In an exclusive national interview with FOX News Digital, Brown said he “does my due diligence and meets anyone and everyone. So I’m at parades, triathlons, my rock band, meetings and events, all over the place. You’re going to see me a lot.” I go out and really learn. ”
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And Mr. Brown is targeting New Hampshire’s all-Democratic caucus.
“What’s really upsetting is how they basically covered it up.” [President] Joe Biden over the last four years, what they did and didn’t do at the border, what they did and didn’t do with inflation, and what they want us to do here in New Hampshire. It’s completely disconnected. And the more I think about it, the more I think we can do better,” Brown argued.
Brown made headlines in 2010 when the then-state senator from blue state Massachusetts won a special U.S. Senate election to serve out the unexpired term of the late longtime Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Former Ambassador and former Sen. Scott Brown speaks with FOX News Digital at one of the “Backyard Barbecues” political events in Rye, New Hampshire in August 2023 (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
He lost re-election in 2012 and is currently a senator. Elizabeth Warren, Brown eventually moved to New Hampshire. New Hampshire is where he spent his childhood and where his family’s roots go back to colonial times. He began his Senate campaign a few months later, but narrowly lost to Shaheen in the 2014 election.
After inviting nearly every Republican presidential candidate in the 2016 cycle to a lecture he called “No BS Backyard Barbecues,” Brown made his final appearance in the weeks leading up to the nation’s first primary in New Hampshire. supported Mr. Trump. After Trump was elected president, he nominated Brown to be the US ambassador to New Zealand, where the former senator served for four years.
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Brown, who returned to New Hampshire at the end of the first Trump administration, supported his wife, Gail, a former television news reporter and anchor, in her 2022 run for Congress.
And the Brown family continued to be politically active in other ways, once again hosting many Republican presidential candidates and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for a “backyard barbecue” during the 2024 presidential campaign.
Former Ambassador and former Sen. Scott Brown (left) sits with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, in Rye, New Hampshire, on July 30, 2023 (FOX News – Paul Steinhauser)
When asked if he would consider running for the Senate again in May 2023, Brown told Fox News Digital, “Of course.”
Brown is currently considering re-election to the Senate, but time is not working against him.
Brown jumped into the race late in the 2014 campaign, just seven months before Election Day.
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This time, he emphasized, “The runway is long. Obviously, it wasn’t like that the first time, and this time I’m going to do what I’ve been doing for nearly 10 years while going around and meeting the participants.” In the process. ”
In his first Senate race, held a few months after changing his residence to New Hampshire, he repeatedly faced accusations of being a carpetbagger.
Last week, progressive groups in New Hampshire targeted Mr. Brown.
Amplify NH claimed in a release that “the gentleman from Massachusetts is eyeing another chance at power and is once again running for Senate in New Hampshire.”
Brown says she’s not worried.
“We’ve had a home here for over 30 years and worked here full-time for over 10 years, so I guess that’s old news now.”
And New Hampshire’s congressional delegation claimed to be “100% voting Massachusetts.”
U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (DN. H.) (AP Photo/Stephen) Senne) (AP)
Mr. Shaheen won by about 16 points in 2020 and is on track for re-election, and in the 2022 election, Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan won re-election by almost 9 points, but Senate Republicans will The party is eyeing New Hampshire in 2026 with the aim of expanding its seats. The majority in the chamber is 47. New Hampshire, along with Georgia and Michigan, is likely to be a fierce target for Senate Republicans.
Trump lost New Hampshire last month, but his lead against Vice President Kamala Harris narrowed to just three points, down from his seven-point loss to President Biden in the Granite State in 2020.
Vance is likely to be the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2028, but the RNC chairman also likes the party’s “bench.”
And while Republicans expanded their majorities in the New Hampshire House and Senate, former Sen. Kelly Ayotte succeeded longtime governor Chris Sununu, keeping the vacant gubernatorial seat in party hands. .
Asked if he would like to accompany Trump on the Granite State campaign trail if he decides to run, Brown said, “Of course, if I have time.”
Brown then pointed to Trump and said, “He’s obviously helped us nationally, but he’s helped us here in New Hampshire.”
Former ambassador and former senator Scott Brown performs with his rock band Scott Brown and the Diplomats (Scott Brown and the Diplomats)
Shaheen has not yet announced whether he will seek re-election to the Senate. That decision will likely be made early in the new year.
But Shaheen did not appear to be preparing for retirement in a fundraising email to supporters on Friday.
“Democrats must be ready to fight back” against the incoming Trump administration, she wrote. The senator added that Democrats’ setbacks in last month’s elections highlight that “early preparation is more important than ever.”
Shaheen, a former three-term New Hampshire governor, will also become the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next month, making her the first woman to hold one of the committee’s top two posts. Become a woman.
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Shaheen will also turn 78 next month.
When asked if age would play a role in the possibility of a rematch between Shaheen and Brown, Brown said he liked Shaheen and really appreciated her support when he became ambassador to New Zealand, but added: “That’s for sure.” It’s up to her,” he added.
“I’m 65 years old. I can’t believe it. I feel like I’m 40. My wife says I act like I’m 12,” he added.
Paul Steinhauser is a political reporter based in New Hampshire.
