Daniel Sarch

Mark Bates smokes a cigar while supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis before he speaks at 405 Pub & Grill in Laconia, N.H., on Dec. 4, 2023. Former President Donald Trump is Bates’ first pick for the 2024 candidacy, but came to support DeSantis as a backup.

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Maryland is surrounded by reporters while walking the halls as the House negotiates the raising of the debt ceiling at Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., on May 25, 2023.

Senator Maggie Hassan holds one year-old Millie, the therapy dog, as she visits 603 United at the Belknap Marketplace in Belmont, N.H., on Aug. 7, 2024.

Election volunteer Wayne Heiligmann helps residents as they vote during the state primary at the Community Center in Meredith, N.H., on Sept. 10, 2024.

N.H. Governor Chris Sununu listens to Nikki Haley speak at a campaign event a day before the state primary at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in Franklin, N.H., Jan. 22, 2024. Despite Sununu’s endorsement, Donald Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary.

A sign that reads “Voting This Way” with a handwritten arrow sits next to a painting of Jesus Christ at Ward 1’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for the municipal elections in Laconia, N.H., Nov. 7, 2023. Polling locations are open 8am to 6pm, but all six wards had low turnout throughout the day due to there being only one contested race for city council in Ward 5.

People listen to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as he speaks and answers questions at 405 Pub & Grill in Laconia, N.H., on Dec. 4, 2023.

Edward Young, 64, of Brick, N.J., wears pins that he has collected at 70 total Trump rallies while waiting in line to see Donald Trump at the Margate Resort in Laconia, N.H., on January 22, 2024. This is Young’s 5th rally in New Hampshire.

Candidates talk to audience members after a Republican Candidate Forum held by the Merrimack County Republican Committee, at the Peabody Home, in Franklin, N.H., on August 28, 2024.

Brothers Donuts Malverino Rizzo, and Mayor and landlord Desiree McLaughlin seeks approval for window signs at a Heritage Commission meeting in the Public Library in Franklin, N.H., on Sept. 16, 2024.

People wait for Nikki Haley before a campaign event at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in Franklin, on Monday morning, Jan. 22, 2024. Haley arrived in Franklin a day before the first of the nation primary in New Hampshire.