For two decades, Republican politicians have floated the idea of privatizing government entitlement programs including Social Security and Medicare. And campaign after campaign it’s been a loser.
Elderly voters — many on fixed incomes and relying on government benefits — are a key voting bloc. New Hampshire’s 307,000 Medicare recipients made up roughly one-quarter of the state’s population in 2020, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, while Social Security recipients totaled 321,000 in the state as of last year.
Rath, who has served as campaign adviser to multiple GOP New Hampshire senators and Republican presidential candidates, said it would be “political malpractice” if Democrats didn’t attack Bolduc on the Medicare issue. He criticized Bolduc for believing he could dramatically change positions from the primary to general election without voters noticing.
Mike Dennehy, a Republican strategist in New Hampshire who worked on Kevin Smith’s Senate primary campaign this year, questioned why Bolduc has even discussed Medicare privatization when no such proposal is actually looming in the Senate. Masters’ change of heart on Social Security hasn’t stopped Democrats from pummeling the Republican nominee with television attack ads on the issue. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has spent more than $1.7 million on television ads in Arizona specifically highlighting Masters’ comments on privatizing Social Security — a topic they’re still putting money behind on the air. Other Democratic groups have taken out digital ads on the topic.
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