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On January 19, 2010, Scott Brown was arguably the most important man in America.<\/p>\n

After Ted Kennedy\u2019s death, Brown rode the Tea Party wave from Massachusetts to the United States Senate with a pledge to be the 41st vote against what was then called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

Read more America Needs More Scott Brown, Says Scott Brown<\/a><\/p>\n

While the media referred to the special election as a contest over \u201cthe Kennedy Seat,\u201d Brown\u2019s campaign pitched it as \u201cthe People\u2019s Seat.\u201d A banner bearing that phrase hung behind Brown when the senator-elect delivered, to thunderous applause, what had become his catchphrase over the previous months.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m Scott Brown. I\u2019m from Wrentham. And I drive a truck!\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s strange to watch that speech today. It\u2019s strange to hear Brown\u2019s defiant tone knowing that he wouldn\u2019t be able to stop Obamacare. It\u2019s strange to watch him revel in his triumph knowing that in just two years his senatorial career would be brought to a screeching halt by Elizabeth Warren, who, at his moment of victory, was just across town in her Harvard Law office.<\/p>\n

But mostly, it\u2019s strange to hear that slogan again. Because Scott Brown is once again running for Senate. Only this time, he\u2019s not from Wrentham \u2014 he\u2019s from New Hampshire. And he\u2019d like it very much if you\u2019d forget that and just focus on the truck.<\/p>\n

I spoke to Brown last month after his campaign grabbed half a news cycle with an AI-generated ad that showed the former senator from Massachusetts beating up the former senator from New Hampshire, his current opponent, John Sununu.<\/p>\n

Brown has never really gone away \u2014 after losing to Warren in 2012 he became a Fox News contributor and ran for the Senate in New Hampshire, losing narrowly to Democrat Jeanne Shaheen in 2014. He came out swinging for Donald Trump in 2016, for which he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to New Zealand and Samoa. Now, after riding out the Biden interregnum in the private sector, he\u2019s trying again, running for the seat Shaheen is vacating.<\/p>\n

Going into the interview, I was excited to talk to Brown about his political journey. How was the original Tea Party candidate navigating a Republican Party that often sees government as the solution, not the problem?<\/p>\n

After our chat, I still don\u2019t know the answer \u2014 and I\u2019m not sure Brown does, either.<\/p>\n

Rather, Brown seems convinced that he can run his 2010 playbook and win. Repeatedly throughout our interview, Brown mentioned how powerful he felt during his brief tour in the Upper Chamber.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m like, dude, I just won the United States Senate, and I\u2019m the 41st vote. I can do whatever I want,\u201d he recalled telling party leaders when he supported Marco Rubio over Charlie Crist in Florida. \u201cThat\u2019s what it feels like right now. I could be that 41st vote or the 40th vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Set aside for a moment the fact that the stakes are different \u2014 there\u2019s a Republican in the White House, and Democrats aren\u2019t on the verge of a generational legislative victory. This is a strange posture for a man whose 41st vote ultimately didn\u2019t amount to anything.<\/p>\n

But Brown doesn\u2019t seem too concerned with how things went. Like a high school quarterback with dreams of walking on the college team, Brown is convinced that he\u2019s just moments away from reclaiming the glory days that maybe never were.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe New Hampshire will be the state that determines who controls the Senate,\u201d he tells me. \u201cSo I can be the senator that controls the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown may have a point. With the Republican majority so thin and so many major seats up, there\u2019s a chance that New Hampshire becomes the midterm linchpin. But if that\u2019s the case, it begs the question: what is Brown still doing in the race? Sununu leads him by about 35 points, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. Sununu is incredibly popular in New Hampshire, and has held that Senate seat before. He\u2019s currently just three points behind Congressman Chris Pappas, the Democratic nominee. Brown trails Pappas by 12.<\/p>\n

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Brown, of course, thinks he should be the nominee \u2014 it would be strange if he didn\u2019t. But it\u2019s clear that he doesn\u2019t think he should advance because he\u2019s the GOP\u2019s best chance to take New Hampshire. No, he thinks he should advance because he thinks he\u2019s destined to be a senator who holds a unique kind of power. Which is strange, because it absolutely does not follow from New Hampshire\u2019s electoral significance that the state\u2019s junior senator will wield some kind of undue influence.<\/p>\n

Nor is it clear what, exactly, Brown would do with this imagined power. He mentions often that he\u2019s a fighter, a real American, someone who knows what people are going through. He says he\u2019ll solve problems and focus on kitchen table issues.<\/p>\n

Nothing objectionable there, but not nothing defining, either. He\u2019s Scott Brown. He drives a truck.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a Republican primary with little daylight between the two contenders, Brown is seeking to distinguish himself as just that: the candidate who calls back, who will be a \u2018scrapper\u2019 and a \u2018fighter,\u2019\u201d the Concord Monitor wrote after Brown and Sununu\u2019s first primary debate.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s another, pretty ill-advised way Brown wants to distinguish himself.<\/p>\n

Throughout our interview, Brown slammed Sununu for being part of the New Hampshire elite. Sununu, whose father and brother both served as governors of New Hampshire, \u201cbasically has a silver spoon, you know, born on third base and thinks he got a triple,\u201d Brown says. But then, later on in our interview Brown notes that \u201cJohn was born in Boston.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is Sununu unqualified because he\u2019s some kind of Granite State bonnie prince, or because he\u2019s the real carpetbagger in the race? It doesn\u2019t matter. What matters is that Brown is the most authentic candidate in the race. The biggest misconception about him, he says, is that he\u2019s not from New Hampshire. He is, he says, and he can prove it.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, my mom was married and divorced 4 times each,\u201d Brown tells me. \u201cMy dad was married and divorced three times each. I\u2019m a sexual assault survivor, a domestic abuse survivor. I was arrested at 12 for stealing records. I was drinking, driving, and stealing at 12.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott Brown \u2014 lawyer, senator, ambassador, resident of Rye (median income $137,969) \u2014 is so desperate to hold on to his truck-driving image that he\u2019s willing to resort to caricature, even at the risk of offending his would-be constituents.<\/p>\n

What makes this all so crazy is that Brown didn\u2019t need to do it. Which is not to say that he didn\u2019t need to run again \u2014 he didn\u2019t, of course, but you can\u2019t make salmon swim downstream \u2014\u00a0but he didn\u2019t need to run this <\/i>campaign, the old campaign. It\u2019s not 2010 anymore. The Tea Party is gone, Mitt Romney is complaining that Elon Musk is too rich, and MAGA Republicans don\u2019t care if their representatives are rich, so long as they\u2019re America First.<\/p>\n

How did Brown miss this? Did he get bad advice? Does he know something about New Hampshire the rest of us don\u2019t? Perhaps. But I think the more likely answer is that Scott Brown didn\u2019t want to change with the times because that would have meant moving on from the cheering crowds who greeted him in Boston that January night 16 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, I\u2019m a Scott Brown Republican,\u201d he says when I ask why he would be an effective senator this go around. \u201cI say that\u2019s the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

It certainly is. But do the people want a Scott Brown Republican? We\u2019ll have to see.<\/p>\n

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On January 19, 2010, Scott Brown was arguably the most important man in America.After Ted Kennedy\u2019s death, Brown rode the Tea Party wave from Massachusetts to the United States Senate with a pledge to be the 41st vote against what was then called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.While the media referred to the special election as a contest over \u201cthe Kennedy Seat,\u201d Brown\u2019s campaign pitched it as \u201cthe People\u2019s Seat.\u201d A banner bearing that phrase hung behind Brown when the senator-elect delivered, to thunderous applause, what had become his catchphrase over the previous months.\u201cI\u2019m Scott Brown. I\u2019m from Wrentham. And I drive a truck!\u201dIt\u2019s strange to watch that speech today. It\u2019s strange to hear Brown\u2019s defiant tone knowing that he wouldn\u2019t be able to stop Obamacare. It\u2019s strange to watch him revel in his triumph knowing that in just two years his senatorial career would be brought to a screeching halt by Elizabeth Warren, who, at his moment of victory, was just across town in her Harvard Law office.But mostly, it\u2019s strange to hear that slogan again. Because Scott Brown is once again running for Senate. Only this time, he\u2019s not from Wrentham \u2014 he\u2019s from New Hampshire. And he\u2019d like it very much if you\u2019d forget that and just focus on the truck.I spoke to Brown last month after his campaign grabbed half a news cycle with an AI-generated ad that showed the former senator from Massachusetts beating up the former senator from New Hampshire, his current opponent, John Sununu.Brown has never really gone away \u2014 after losing to Warren in 2012 he became a Fox News contributor and ran for the Senate in New Hampshire, losing narrowly to Democrat Jeanne Shaheen in 2014. He came out swinging for Donald Trump in 2016, for which he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to New Zealand and Samoa. Now, after riding out the Biden interregnum in the private sector, he\u2019s trying again, running for the seat Shaheen is vacating.Going into the interview, I was excited to talk to Brown about his political journey. How was the original Tea Party candidate navigating a Republican Party that often sees government as the solution, not the problem?After our chat, I still don\u2019t know the answer \u2014 and I\u2019m not sure Brown does, either.Rather, Brown seems convinced that he can run his 2010 playbook and win. Repeatedly throughout our interview, Brown mentioned how powerful he felt during his brief tour in the Upper Chamber.\u201cI\u2019m like, dude, I just won the United States Senate, and I\u2019m the 41st vote. I can do whatever I want,\u201d he recalled telling party leaders when he supported Marco Rubio over Charlie Crist in Florida. \u201cThat\u2019s what it feels like right now. I could be that 41st vote or the 40th vote.\u201dSet aside for a moment the fact that the stakes are different \u2014 there\u2019s a Republican in the White House, and Democrats aren\u2019t on the verge of a generational legislative victory. This is a strange posture for a man whose 41st vote ultimately didn\u2019t amount to anything.But Brown doesn\u2019t seem too concerned with how things went. Like a high school quarterback with dreams of walking on the college team, Brown is convinced that he\u2019s just moments away from reclaiming the glory days that maybe never were.\u201cI believe New Hampshire will be the state that determines who controls the Senate,\u201d he tells me. \u201cSo I can be the senator that controls the Senate.\u201dBrown may have a point. With the Republican majority so thin and so many major seats up, there\u2019s a chance that New Hampshire becomes the midterm linchpin. But if that\u2019s the case, it begs the question: what is Brown still doing in the race? Sununu leads him by about 35 points, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. Sununu is incredibly popular in New Hampshire, and has held that Senate seat before. He\u2019s currently just three points behind Congressman Chris Pappas, the Democratic nominee. Brown trails Pappas by 12.Brown, of course, thinks he should be the nominee \u2014 it would be strange if he didn\u2019t. But it\u2019s clear that he doesn\u2019t think he should advance because he\u2019s the GOP\u2019s best chance to take New Hampshire. No, he thinks he should advance because he thinks he\u2019s destined to be a senator who holds a unique kind of power. Which is strange, because it absolutely does not follow from New Hampshire\u2019s electoral significance that the state\u2019s junior senator will wield some kind of undue influence.Nor is it clear what, exactly, Brown would do with this imagined power. He mentions often that he\u2019s a fighter, a real American, someone who knows what people are going through. He says he\u2019ll solve problems and focus on kitchen table issues.Nothing objectionable there, but not nothing defining, either. He\u2019s Scott Brown. He drives a truck.\u201cIn a Republican primary with little daylight between the two contenders, Brown is seeking to distinguish himself as just that: the candidate who calls back, who will be a \u2018scrapper\u2019 and a \u2018fighter,\u2019\u201d the Concord Monitor wrote after Brown and Sununu\u2019s first primary debate.But there\u2019s another, pretty ill-advised way Brown wants to distinguish himself.Throughout our interview, Brown slammed Sununu for being part of the New Hampshire elite. Sununu, whose father and brother both served as governors of New Hampshire, \u201cbasically has a silver spoon, you know, born on third base and thinks he got a triple,\u201d Brown says. But then, later on in our interview Brown notes that \u201cJohn was born in Boston.\u201dIs Sununu unqualified because he\u2019s some kind of Granite State bonnie prince, or because he\u2019s the real carpetbagger in the race? It doesn\u2019t matter. What matters is that Brown is the most authentic candidate in the race. The biggest misconception about him, he says, is that he\u2019s not from New Hampshire. He is, he says, and he can prove it.\u201cListen, my mom was married and divorced 4 times each,\u201d Brown tells me. \u201cMy dad was married and divorced three times each. I\u2019m a sexual assault survivor, a domestic abuse survivor. I was arrested at 12 for stealing records. I was drinking, driving, and stealing at 12.\u201dScott Brown \u2014 lawyer, senator, ambassador, resident of Rye (median income $137,969) \u2014 is so desperate to hold on to his truck-driving image that he\u2019s willing to resort to caricature, even at the risk of offending his would-be constituents.What makes this all so crazy is that Brown didn\u2019t need to do it. Which is not to say that he didn\u2019t need to run again \u2014 he didn\u2019t, of course, but you can\u2019t make salmon swim downstream \u2014\u00a0but he didn\u2019t need to run this campaign, the old campaign. It\u2019s not 2010 anymore. The Tea Party is gone, Mitt Romney is complaining that Elon Musk is too rich, and MAGA Republicans don\u2019t care if their representatives are rich, so long as they\u2019re America First.How did Brown miss this? Did he get bad advice? Does he know something about New Hampshire the rest of us don\u2019t? Perhaps. But I think the more likely answer is that Scott Brown didn\u2019t want to change with the times because that would have meant moving on from the cheering crowds who greeted him in Boston that January night 16 years ago.\u201cListen, I\u2019m a Scott Brown Republican,\u201d he says when I ask why he would be an effective senator this go around. \u201cI say that\u2019s the difference.\u201dIt certainly is. But do the people want a Scott Brown Republican? We\u2019ll have to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-original"],"yoast_head":"\nAmerica Needs More Scott Brown, Says Scott Brown - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1161\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"America Needs More Scott Brown, Says Scott Brown - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On January 19, 2010, Scott Brown was arguably the most important man in America.After Ted Kennedy\u2019s death, Brown rode the Tea Party wave from Massachusetts to the United States Senate with a pledge to be the 41st vote against what was then called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.While the media referred to the special election as a contest over \u201cthe Kennedy Seat,\u201d Brown\u2019s campaign pitched it as \u201cthe People\u2019s Seat.\u201d A banner bearing that phrase hung behind Brown when the senator-elect delivered, to thunderous applause, what had become his catchphrase over the previous months.\u201cI\u2019m Scott Brown. I\u2019m from Wrentham. And I drive a truck!\u201dIt\u2019s strange to watch that speech today. It\u2019s strange to hear Brown\u2019s defiant tone knowing that he wouldn\u2019t be able to stop Obamacare. It\u2019s strange to watch him revel in his triumph knowing that in just two years his senatorial career would be brought to a screeching halt by Elizabeth Warren, who, at his moment of victory, was just across town in her Harvard Law office.But mostly, it\u2019s strange to hear that slogan again. Because Scott Brown is once again running for Senate. Only this time, he\u2019s not from Wrentham \u2014 he\u2019s from New Hampshire. And he\u2019d like it very much if you\u2019d forget that and just focus on the truck.I spoke to Brown last month after his campaign grabbed half a news cycle with an AI-generated ad that showed the former senator from Massachusetts beating up the former senator from New Hampshire, his current opponent, John Sununu.Brown has never really gone away \u2014 after losing to Warren in 2012 he became a Fox News contributor and ran for the Senate in New Hampshire, losing narrowly to Democrat Jeanne Shaheen in 2014. He came out swinging for Donald Trump in 2016, for which he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to New Zealand and Samoa. Now, after riding out the Biden interregnum in the private sector, he\u2019s trying again, running for the seat Shaheen is vacating.Going into the interview, I was excited to talk to Brown about his political journey. How was the original Tea Party candidate navigating a Republican Party that often sees government as the solution, not the problem?After our chat, I still don\u2019t know the answer \u2014 and I\u2019m not sure Brown does, either.Rather, Brown seems convinced that he can run his 2010 playbook and win. Repeatedly throughout our interview, Brown mentioned how powerful he felt during his brief tour in the Upper Chamber.\u201cI\u2019m like, dude, I just won the United States Senate, and I\u2019m the 41st vote. I can do whatever I want,\u201d he recalled telling party leaders when he supported Marco Rubio over Charlie Crist in Florida. \u201cThat\u2019s what it feels like right now. I could be that 41st vote or the 40th vote.\u201dSet aside for a moment the fact that the stakes are different \u2014 there\u2019s a Republican in the White House, and Democrats aren\u2019t on the verge of a generational legislative victory. This is a strange posture for a man whose 41st vote ultimately didn\u2019t amount to anything.But Brown doesn\u2019t seem too concerned with how things went. Like a high school quarterback with dreams of walking on the college team, Brown is convinced that he\u2019s just moments away from reclaiming the glory days that maybe never were.\u201cI believe New Hampshire will be the state that determines who controls the Senate,\u201d he tells me. \u201cSo I can be the senator that controls the Senate.\u201dBrown may have a point. With the Republican majority so thin and so many major seats up, there\u2019s a chance that New Hampshire becomes the midterm linchpin. But if that\u2019s the case, it begs the question: what is Brown still doing in the race? Sununu leads him by about 35 points, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. Sununu is incredibly popular in New Hampshire, and has held that Senate seat before. He\u2019s currently just three points behind Congressman Chris Pappas, the Democratic nominee. Brown trails Pappas by 12.Brown, of course, thinks he should be the nominee \u2014 it would be strange if he didn\u2019t. But it\u2019s clear that he doesn\u2019t think he should advance because he\u2019s the GOP\u2019s best chance to take New Hampshire. No, he thinks he should advance because he thinks he\u2019s destined to be a senator who holds a unique kind of power. Which is strange, because it absolutely does not follow from New Hampshire\u2019s electoral significance that the state\u2019s junior senator will wield some kind of undue influence.Nor is it clear what, exactly, Brown would do with this imagined power. He mentions often that he\u2019s a fighter, a real American, someone who knows what people are going through. He says he\u2019ll solve problems and focus on kitchen table issues.Nothing objectionable there, but not nothing defining, either. He\u2019s Scott Brown. He drives a truck.\u201cIn a Republican primary with little daylight between the two contenders, Brown is seeking to distinguish himself as just that: the candidate who calls back, who will be a \u2018scrapper\u2019 and a \u2018fighter,\u2019\u201d the Concord Monitor wrote after Brown and Sununu\u2019s first primary debate.But there\u2019s another, pretty ill-advised way Brown wants to distinguish himself.Throughout our interview, Brown slammed Sununu for being part of the New Hampshire elite. Sununu, whose father and brother both served as governors of New Hampshire, \u201cbasically has a silver spoon, you know, born on third base and thinks he got a triple,\u201d Brown says. But then, later on in our interview Brown notes that \u201cJohn was born in Boston.\u201dIs Sununu unqualified because he\u2019s some kind of Granite State bonnie prince, or because he\u2019s the real carpetbagger in the race? It doesn\u2019t matter. What matters is that Brown is the most authentic candidate in the race. The biggest misconception about him, he says, is that he\u2019s not from New Hampshire. He is, he says, and he can prove it.\u201cListen, my mom was married and divorced 4 times each,\u201d Brown tells me. \u201cMy dad was married and divorced three times each. I\u2019m a sexual assault survivor, a domestic abuse survivor. I was arrested at 12 for stealing records. I was drinking, driving, and stealing at 12.\u201dScott Brown \u2014 lawyer, senator, ambassador, resident of Rye (median income $137,969) \u2014 is so desperate to hold on to his truck-driving image that he\u2019s willing to resort to caricature, even at the risk of offending his would-be constituents.What makes this all so crazy is that Brown didn\u2019t need to do it. Which is not to say that he didn\u2019t need to run again \u2014 he didn\u2019t, of course, but you can\u2019t make salmon swim downstream \u2014\u00a0but he didn\u2019t need to run this campaign, the old campaign. It\u2019s not 2010 anymore. The Tea Party is gone, Mitt Romney is complaining that Elon Musk is too rich, and MAGA Republicans don\u2019t care if their representatives are rich, so long as they\u2019re America First.How did Brown miss this? Did he get bad advice? Does he know something about New Hampshire the rest of us don\u2019t? Perhaps. But I think the more likely answer is that Scott Brown didn\u2019t want to change with the times because that would have meant moving on from the cheering crowds who greeted him in Boston that January night 16 years ago.\u201cListen, I\u2019m a Scott Brown Republican,\u201d he says when I ask why he would be an effective senator this go around. \u201cI say that\u2019s the difference.\u201dIt certainly is. 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I\u2019m from Wrentham. And I drive a truck!\u201dIt\u2019s strange to watch that speech today. It\u2019s strange to hear Brown\u2019s defiant tone knowing that he wouldn\u2019t be able to stop Obamacare. It\u2019s strange to watch him revel in his triumph knowing that in just two years his senatorial career would be brought to a screeching halt by Elizabeth Warren, who, at his moment of victory, was just across town in her Harvard Law office.But mostly, it\u2019s strange to hear that slogan again. Because Scott Brown is once again running for Senate. Only this time, he\u2019s not from Wrentham \u2014 he\u2019s from New Hampshire. And he\u2019d like it very much if you\u2019d forget that and just focus on the truck.I spoke to Brown last month after his campaign grabbed half a news cycle with an AI-generated ad that showed the former senator from Massachusetts beating up the former senator from New Hampshire, his current opponent, John Sununu.Brown has never really gone away \u2014 after losing to Warren in 2012 he became a Fox News contributor and ran for the Senate in New Hampshire, losing narrowly to Democrat Jeanne Shaheen in 2014. He came out swinging for Donald Trump in 2016, for which he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to New Zealand and Samoa. Now, after riding out the Biden interregnum in the private sector, he\u2019s trying again, running for the seat Shaheen is vacating.Going into the interview, I was excited to talk to Brown about his political journey. How was the original Tea Party candidate navigating a Republican Party that often sees government as the solution, not the problem?After our chat, I still don\u2019t know the answer \u2014 and I\u2019m not sure Brown does, either.Rather, Brown seems convinced that he can run his 2010 playbook and win. Repeatedly throughout our interview, Brown mentioned how powerful he felt during his brief tour in the Upper Chamber.\u201cI\u2019m like, dude, I just won the United States Senate, and I\u2019m the 41st vote. I can do whatever I want,\u201d he recalled telling party leaders when he supported Marco Rubio over Charlie Crist in Florida. \u201cThat\u2019s what it feels like right now. I could be that 41st vote or the 40th vote.\u201dSet aside for a moment the fact that the stakes are different \u2014 there\u2019s a Republican in the White House, and Democrats aren\u2019t on the verge of a generational legislative victory. This is a strange posture for a man whose 41st vote ultimately didn\u2019t amount to anything.But Brown doesn\u2019t seem too concerned with how things went. Like a high school quarterback with dreams of walking on the college team, Brown is convinced that he\u2019s just moments away from reclaiming the glory days that maybe never were.\u201cI believe New Hampshire will be the state that determines who controls the Senate,\u201d he tells me. \u201cSo I can be the senator that controls the Senate.\u201dBrown may have a point. With the Republican majority so thin and so many major seats up, there\u2019s a chance that New Hampshire becomes the midterm linchpin. But if that\u2019s the case, it begs the question: what is Brown still doing in the race? Sununu leads him by about 35 points, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. Sununu is incredibly popular in New Hampshire, and has held that Senate seat before. He\u2019s currently just three points behind Congressman Chris Pappas, the Democratic nominee. Brown trails Pappas by 12.Brown, of course, thinks he should be the nominee \u2014 it would be strange if he didn\u2019t. But it\u2019s clear that he doesn\u2019t think he should advance because he\u2019s the GOP\u2019s best chance to take New Hampshire. No, he thinks he should advance because he thinks he\u2019s destined to be a senator who holds a unique kind of power. Which is strange, because it absolutely does not follow from New Hampshire\u2019s electoral significance that the state\u2019s junior senator will wield some kind of undue influence.Nor is it clear what, exactly, Brown would do with this imagined power. He mentions often that he\u2019s a fighter, a real American, someone who knows what people are going through. He says he\u2019ll solve problems and focus on kitchen table issues.Nothing objectionable there, but not nothing defining, either. He\u2019s Scott Brown. He drives a truck.\u201cIn a Republican primary with little daylight between the two contenders, Brown is seeking to distinguish himself as just that: the candidate who calls back, who will be a \u2018scrapper\u2019 and a \u2018fighter,\u2019\u201d the Concord Monitor wrote after Brown and Sununu\u2019s first primary debate.But there\u2019s another, pretty ill-advised way Brown wants to distinguish himself.Throughout our interview, Brown slammed Sununu for being part of the New Hampshire elite. Sununu, whose father and brother both served as governors of New Hampshire, \u201cbasically has a silver spoon, you know, born on third base and thinks he got a triple,\u201d Brown says. But then, later on in our interview Brown notes that \u201cJohn was born in Boston.\u201dIs Sununu unqualified because he\u2019s some kind of Granite State bonnie prince, or because he\u2019s the real carpetbagger in the race? It doesn\u2019t matter. What matters is that Brown is the most authentic candidate in the race. The biggest misconception about him, he says, is that he\u2019s not from New Hampshire. He is, he says, and he can prove it.\u201cListen, my mom was married and divorced 4 times each,\u201d Brown tells me. \u201cMy dad was married and divorced three times each. I\u2019m a sexual assault survivor, a domestic abuse survivor. I was arrested at 12 for stealing records. I was drinking, driving, and stealing at 12.\u201dScott Brown \u2014 lawyer, senator, ambassador, resident of Rye (median income $137,969) \u2014 is so desperate to hold on to his truck-driving image that he\u2019s willing to resort to caricature, even at the risk of offending his would-be constituents.What makes this all so crazy is that Brown didn\u2019t need to do it. Which is not to say that he didn\u2019t need to run again \u2014 he didn\u2019t, of course, but you can\u2019t make salmon swim downstream \u2014\u00a0but he didn\u2019t need to run this campaign, the old campaign. It\u2019s not 2010 anymore. The Tea Party is gone, Mitt Romney is complaining that Elon Musk is too rich, and MAGA Republicans don\u2019t care if their representatives are rich, so long as they\u2019re America First.How did Brown miss this? Did he get bad advice? Does he know something about New Hampshire the rest of us don\u2019t? Perhaps. But I think the more likely answer is that Scott Brown didn\u2019t want to change with the times because that would have meant moving on from the cheering crowds who greeted him in Boston that January night 16 years ago.\u201cListen, I\u2019m a Scott Brown Republican,\u201d he says when I ask why he would be an effective senator this go around. \u201cI say that\u2019s the difference.\u201dIt certainly is. But do the people want a Scott Brown Republican? We\u2019ll have to see.","og_url":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1161","og_site_name":"Blue Route Journal","article_published_time":"2026-07-12T15:08:16+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1161#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1161"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/19da116f8d79cf8987781569801c6b7c"},"headline":"America Needs More Scott Brown, Says Scott Brown","datePublished":"2026-07-12T15:08:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1161"},"wordCount":1351,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1161#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fd1661c9a60f69a884470c97890b4738.avif","articleSection":["Original"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1161#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1161","url":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1161","name":"America Needs More Scott Brown, Says Scott Brown - 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