Two candidates — Stefany Shaheen, the daughter of retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Maura Sullivan, an Obama-era official — remained locked in a Democratic primary race early Wednesday morning in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District.

The contested race remains too close to call as both Shaheen and Sullivan, the two frontrunners, vie for a chance to keep the district under Democratic control as its incumbent, Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., pursues higher office.

Pappas, who has represented the district since 2019, announced a bid for the U.S. Senate last year.

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«I’m honored that the people of New Hampshire have entrusted me to fight for them; I’m proud of what we have accomplished together and I’m going to continue this fight in the U.S. Senate,» Pappas said in a press release.

Incumbents often present their party’s best chance to win in competitive districts. Pappas last won reelection in a 54.0% to 45.9% victory over Republican challenger Russell Prescott, a local legislator.

The race attracted a crowd of Democratic challengers hoping to fill the open seat. In addition to Sullivan and Shaheen, eight contenders jumped into the race for the open seat, including Carleigh Beriont, a state legislator. Beriont ended the night almost ten points behind Shaheen and Sullivan but still managed to capture roughly 20% of the vote.

Although Sullivan raised more financial support, it was Shaheen who led the race for much of the night, closing out Tuesday evening with a roughly 2% lead.

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Stefany Shaheen, left, pictured alongside Maura Sullivan, right. (Steffany Shaheen for Congress; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Sullivan accumulated $3.6 million in campaign contributions, outstripping Shaheen’s $2.4 million, according to records from the FEC.

But Shaheen also enjoyed the backing of her mother, who endorsed her last year.

«I’m so proud that Stefany is answering the call to serve the district she was born and raised in, where she has started a business, worked on the Portsmouth City Council and advocated for affordable health care and clean water,» Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said in a statement.

«She’s working hard to earn voters’ support in her own right and on her own merits — and I couldn’t be prouder to support her candidacy.»

Shaheen emphasized priorities like Medicare for All, expanding tax breaks for first-time homebuyers and overhauling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Sullivan, for her own part, pitched herself as an experienced veteran. On her campaign website, she highlighted her military service in the Marines, her work with the Obama administration in 2014 as an assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and her leadership as a private sector health technology executive.

«I joined the Obama administration. I was proud to work on matters of national security, healthcare and reform to help fellow military families like mine,» Sullivan said in a campaign video.

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Democratic congressional candidate Maura Sullivan speaks at a «No Kings» rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on June 14, 2025 (Maura Sullivan campaign)

Sullivan’s platform includes cracking down on what she described as price gouging, bolstering the VA, opposing Trump’s tariffs and increasing federal investments in housing development.

In remarks late on Tuesday, Sullivan told her supporters the campaign was far from over.

«I feel incredibly proud of the campaign that we ran — which is far from over, by the way. There are still a lot of results to come in,»Sullivan said.

Upon securing the nomination, either Shaheen or Sullivan will advance to the general election on Nov. 3.

Cinde Warmington secured the Democratic nomination in New Hampshire’s gubernatorial primary on Tuesday evening after running unopposed.

Her nomination marks the second time she’s pursued the office as Warmington continues to face attacks over her work as an attorney for Purdue Pharma — the company that became notorious in the early 2000s for the development and marketing of OxyContin.

The Republican Governors Association (RGA) called her connection to the drug disqualifying.

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«Based on her role in fueling the opioid epidemic and calling OxyContin a ‘miracle drug,’ Cinde Warmington is completely disqualified from being governor. Warmington chose a payday over protecting New Hampshire families,» the RGA told local outlets.

Purdue faced public outrage, investigations and lawsuits over how it pushed OxyContin as a non-addictive drug while knowingly concealing its high potential for abuse. After years of lawfare, the company was required to pay a $7.4 billion settlement in May.

Warmington, for her part, has called the attacks unfounded and said that she had only a limited association with Perdue. In a video titled «setting the record straight,» she addressed it head on.

«My dad, who I loved very, very much, struggled with addiction,» she said. «We did not escape the opioid crisis.»

«In 2001, when, as an attorney, I was assigned a case by a partner to represent Purdue Pharma … I was fighting for patients to get access to the healthcare that their doctors thought that they needed. What I did not know at the time was that Purdue Pharma was engaged in this massive criminal fraud — something that would only be exposed over years of litigation.»

In the past, Warmington served on the New Hampshire Executive Council, representing the state’s 2nd district from 2021 to 2025.

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State Capitol of New Hampshire, Concord (Photo by: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

She’s run for governor once before in 2024, losing out to Joyce Craig, the eventual nominee, in a 47.9% to 41.8% contest. Craig herself would go on to lose to Gov. Kelly Ayotte, the Republican in the race.

In her 2026 campaign, Warmington has pitched herself as a foil to rising costs of living. Like many Democratic candidates in the 2026 primaries, Warmington has put pressure on Republicans for not doing enough on affordability.

«The prices of houses, groceries, electricity and property taxes are crushing working families. And Kelly Ayotte is making your life more expensive. I know we can do better,» Warmington said in a campaign video.

She shares some platform similarities with other Democrats.

In addition to championing priorities like pushing back on Trump’s immigration crackdown through Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), implementing guardrails for data center construction, and preventing investor groups from purchasing housing, Warmington has also appealed to voters across the aisle with promises to slash taxes.

«I’ll make sure we don’t have a sales or income tax,» Warmington said.

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Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, at a bill signing, on May 22, 2025 at the Statehouse in Concord, N.H. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

Having secured the party nomination, Warmington will face off against Ayotte in the state’s general election for governor on Nov. 3.

Ayotte won election in 2024, defeating Craig 53.6% to 44.3%.

The United Kingdom unveiled sweeping new measures targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Tuesday, triggering an immediate diplomatic rupture with Israel and a sharp warning from a senior Trump administration official.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced Tuesday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval, that Israel would close the British Consulate in Jerusalem and impose a series of countermeasures in response to the U.K. sanctions.

The Israeli measures also include removing British representatives from the International Gaza Support Center in Kiryat Gat, ending British activities training Palestinian Authority forces in the West Bank and denying entry to 12 British elected officials and other British nationals whom Israel accused of antisemitic or anti-Israel activity.

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«Measures against Israel will not go unanswered,» Sa’ar said. «Whoever acts against Israel, Israel will act against them, and they will lose their influence and relevance in the region.»

The escalation came hours after Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament that Britain would ban imports of goods from Israeli settlements, target companies and individuals facilitating settlement expansion, and refuse licenses for arms and other exports that materially contribute to the occupation.

The move is part of a coordinated push with France, Canada and other European partners amid what the governments described Tuesday as «unprecedented levels of settler violence and settlement expansion» in the West Bank, including Israel’s E1 project, which they argue threatens the viability of a future Palestinian state. The measures come just weeks before world leaders gather for the U.N. General Assembly in New York and less than two months before Israel’s Oct. 27 election, adding diplomatic and political stakes to an already strained relationship between Israel and several of its traditional Western allies.

At the same time, the foreign ministers recognized Israel’s «legitimate security interests» and reiterated their condemnation of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack, which they described as «the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust.» They said their objective remained a two-state solution allowing Israel and «a sovereign, democratic and viable Palestinian state» to live side by side in peace and security.

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The West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

The timing has also become a political issue inside Britain. An unnamed Labor MP told The Telegraph that Prime Minister Andy Burnham had faced pressure from colleagues worried about Gaza-related campaigning and losing seats to the Greens, while Israeli officials have accused London of trying to influence Israel’s election — claims the British government rejects as it frames the measures as an effort to preserve the two-state solution.

«Today, I announce that the official view of the British government is that the occupation is unlawful,» Miliband told lawmakers Tuesday.

Miliband opened the statement by describing himself as a «proud British Jew» with «the deepest gratitude to the State of Israel,» recalling how his grandmother found refuge there after losing her husband and 60 other family members at the hands of the Nazis.

He stressed that the measures were aimed at settlements rather than Israel itself.

«The sanctions regime will target illegal settlement and settlement expansion. Not Israel,» Miliband said, adding that Britain would continue to support trade with Israel inside the Green Line and that he «wholeheartedly» opposed the broader Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

Miliband also condemned rising antisemitism in Britain, saying, «Holding British Jews responsible for the actions of the Israeli government is antisemitism, plain and simple.»

He reaffirmed Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorism, called for Hamas to disarm and dismantle its terrorist infrastructure under the U.S. -led 20-point Gaza plan, and announced sanctions against Hezbollah financing institution Al-Qard Al-Hassan. He also said Britain was reimposing major economic sanctions on Iran and would continue security cooperation with Israel against shared threats.

The measures drew immediate criticism from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who warned in an interview with BBC World Service Newsday that Britain could face economic repercussions in the United States.

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks to Fox News Digital during an interview at the American embassy in Jerusalem. (Yoav Dudkevitch/ TPS-IL for Fox News)

«I think without a doubt there will be,» Huckabee said when asked whether the U.K. should expect consequences.

Huckabee pointed to Florida and other states with anti-boycott laws, arguing that British companies could face restrictions on doing business there.

«If the Brits do something like this with a partner, Israel, then they will not be able to do business in Florida,» he said, warning of a «huge economic impact on British businesses.»

He also challenged Britain’s policy on substantive grounds, arguing that Israel is permitted under the Oslo agreements to build communities in Area C and predicting that the sanctions would have «a very negative effect that does not meet whatever goal maybe that the Brits have.»

In a separate portion of the BBC interview, Huckabee said, «I feel like that it’s a discrimination against the Israeli government. It’s a discrimination against the Jewish people. And I don’t understand the rationale.»

The Trump administration also made clear Tuesday that Washington would not join the coordinated sanctions push. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States does not want to see «anything destabilizing» in the West Bank, but said Washington would not follow Britain, France and Canada in blocking imports from Israeli settlements, according to Reuters.

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog during an interview with Fox News Digital in Jerusalem. (Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS-IL for Fox News Digital)

Sa’ar also accused London of interfering in Israel’s election campaign and said the settlement sanctions were driven by domestic British politics ahead of the Labor Party conference.

«The British move is morally distorted and constitutes blatant interference in the affairs of a sovereign state and in its electoral process,» he said.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog called Britain’s move a «grave miscalculation» Tuesday and argued that it amounted to «gross interference» in Israel’s upcoming election, according to a statement from his office.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, president and founder of the Tel Aviv-based Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, also criticized the measures, arguing that the economic impact would be limited while the political consequences could be significant.

«These sanctions are not serious economic policy; they are political theater staged at Israel’s expense,» Darshan-Leitner told Fox News Digital. She disputed Britain’s legal characterization of the territory, saying, «The territories are disputed, not sovereign Palestinian land, and their future must be negotiated by the parties under the Oslo framework.»

Darshan-Leitner also argued that because little of the roughly $8 billion in annual U.K.-Israel trade originates in West Bank settlements, the measures would have little direct economic effect while potentially influencing Israel’s political debate ahead of elections.

Miliband, however, argued that failing to act would allow continued settlement expansion to destroy the possibility of a two-state solution. He focused particularly on Israel’s E1 project east of Jerusalem, which Britain and numerous other governments say threatens the territorial viability of a future Palestinian state.

Sa’ar rejected Britain’s position that the E1 settlement project threatens the viability of a future Palestinian state.

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The Libi Infrastructure and Construction factory in the Israeli settlement of Shilo in the West Bank, April 30, 2026. (Reuters/Ammar Awad)

The policy has also exposed divisions within Britain.

Conservative lawmaker Tom Tugendhat acknowledged in Parliament that illegal settlements were wrong and that some settlers had committed «outrageous abuses» against Palestinians, but argued that the government’s response risked hurting ordinary Israelis and Palestinians.

«What we reject here is not the intent, but the performative politics,» Tugendhat said, warning against acting without sufficiently broad international support.

Miliband rejected arguments that the measures were intended to isolate Israel.

An Israeli soldier is seen during a protest in the town of Beita, in the West Bank, on July 26, 2024. (Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

«Our argument is not with the people of Israel, with whom the U.K. has unshakable bonds,» he said. «Our argument is with the conduct of its government.»

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis also sharply criticized the measures, calling Tuesday «a truly dark day for British Jews.»

«Today our Government has chosen to ignore the deep concerns expressed by so many of us,» Mirvis wrote on X. «These measures will succeed only in bolstering the very extremism they seek to target.»

Mirvis argued that the sanctions would do little to advance peace and could deepen hostility toward Israel at a time of heightened concern about antisemitism in Britain.

«Gesture politics of this kind feeds into an increasingly hostile discourse about Israel,» he wrote, warning that the cumulative effect of such policies could «further embolden those, at home and abroad, who use hatred as a weapon against Jews.»