BOSTON (AP) – He insists he’s not running for president a third time, but Mitt Romney is campaigning again in New Hampshire.
The former Republican presidential nominee is set to endorse Senate candidate Scott Brown on Wednesday, campaigning publicly in New Hampshire for the first time since the early hours of Election Day 2012 as he continues a larger effort to re-emerge as a force in Republican politics.
The day is supposed to be focused on Brown’s quest to defeat Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen this fall. But Romney’s return to the state where he began and ended his last presidential campaign looms over the Senate endorsement.
The afternoon rally is being held at Scamman’s Bittersweet Farm in Stratham, New Hamphsire, the same location where the former Massachusetts governor formally launched his last presidential campaign.
Democrats attacked Romney in a conference call on the eve of the visit, reminding people that he lost New Hampshire to President Barack Obama in the last general election, despite owning a summer home in the state’s Lakes Region.