Believe the Buzz: Truly Hard Seltzer's Best Flavors Just Got Better - PR Newswire

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Now made with real fruit juice, new campaign features fruit flies as unexpected stars to illustrate portfolio optimization

BOSTON, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Truly Hard Seltzer, a leader and innovator in the hard seltzer category, today announced the rollout of a sweeping product optimization of its entire portfolio, making its best flavors even better with the addition of real fruit juice. With more than 30 unique flavors, Truly has more flavors now made with real fruit juice than any other hard seltzer on the market. 

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Optimized over a year-long research and development process to increase sessionability for a cleaner, more refreshing taste profile, Truly original mix packs including Citrus, Berry, and Tropical made with real fruit juice are rolling out now. The effort is on par with Truly's successful reformulation in late 2019 which contributed to more than two years of share gains.

To  Introduce New Flavors and Real Fruit Juice, Truly Buzz-Worthy Campaign Taps Fruit's Biggest Fans: Fruit Flies

A new multi-channel campaign from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners includes "Our Best Flavors," a splashy, catchy spot featuring flavors from each pack, a trending track, and of course, real fruit, to queue fun and refreshment in the 15-second spot to air on linear TV nationally starting August 22. Out-of-home, social, influencer, and digital extensions will be live through the fall.

A complementary, 30-second online video disturbingly romanticizes the newest fans of Truly now made with real fruit juice: fruit flies. The twisted, tasty film and a behind-the-scenes video is available online at trulyhardseltzer.com/realfruitjuice.

"Truly fans crave easy-drinking hard seltzers to match the flavorful lives they live," says Matt Withington, Sr. Director of Marketing, Truly Hard Seltzer. "To capture the flavor optimization, we wanted to highlight Truly bursting with real fruit juice in a bold – and yes – buzzy way."

A love story between a fruit fly and Truly made with real fruit juice? It's bold all right. In a behind-the-scenes video from the campaign shoot, Truly highlights the realness of the fruit fly's attraction to the optimized flavors. With the addition of real fruit to every can, not even fruit flies can resist the refreshing taste of Truly. Don't believe us? Just ask professional fruit fly wrangler, Tyler DeTrude. "Fruit flies live to consume and break down fruit," says DeTrude. "That's why you find them in your kitchen every once in a while. And so, with Truly using real fruit juice, it was fun to watch the fruit flies become fans of Truly."

"Truly told us their hard seltzer is now made with real fruit juice. So we said: let's prove it!," said Jeff Goodby, Co-Chairman and Partner of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. "We released dozens of real fruit flies around Truly and watched them with a microscopic lens. Think the flies had the best day of their very short lives. The result is a little gross but 100% authentic! Doesn't get any more real than that."

Truly Optimization Brings New Look and New Flavors to Packs Rolling Out Nationally

Truly original mix packs now made with real fruit juice from concentrate (Citrus, Berry, and Tropical) have a hint of flavor, an all-new look, and new flavors rolling out now including Watermelon Breeze and Strawberry Lime.  Truly's bold, flavorful favorite packs like Lemonade, Margarita, Punch, and Tea have always included real fruit juice but have been improved to give drinkers the juicy, refreshing experience they're looking for.

"Constantly innovating, we've proven that hard seltzer drinkers react favorably to product improvements," says Lesya Lysyj, Chief Marketing Officer, Boston Beer Company. "With this rollout of even better-tasting flavors, we're reminding consumers why they came to hard seltzers in the first place – for a refreshing, easy drinking, variety-filled and fun experience that few other alcoholic beverages can provide."

To see what the buzz is all about and find optimized Truly near you, visit trulyhardseltzer.com/realfruitjuice.

About Truly Hard Seltzer 

Since its inception in 2016, Truly has been the most innovative brand in the category, breaking the boundaries of what consumers expect from hard seltzer. Truly believes no one is just one flavor, which is why it is available in 31 total flavors: 12 delicious original flavors, plus five flavors of Truly Lemonade, four flavors of Truly Iced Tea, four flavors of Truly Punch, two flavors of Truly Extra and now four flavors of Truly Margarita. At just 100 calories and 5% ABV, Truly is perfect for any occasion from beach days to backyard barbecues and beyond. To learn more about Truly, visit www.trulyhardseltzer.com.

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How Dante Pettis' hard NFL lessons helped him seize Bears opportunity - NBC Sports

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LAKE FOREST – Dante Pettis knows all too well how fleeting NFL opportunities can be. When the moment arises, you must seize it if you want to cling to your professional life.

After making the Bears' 53-man roster Tuesday, Pettis has given himself a new lease on NFL life.

"I've been asking God for an opportunity," Pettis said Tuesday after practice. "I was going to work as hard as I could. Whenever that opportunity was, I was going to be ready for it. It feels good to have that pay off at least for this short period of time."

Pettis' career started close to the NFL mountaintop when the 49ers traded up to select him in the second round of the 2018 NFL Draft.

A smooth route-running receiver from Washington, Pettis landed in the ideal situation, playing in a Kyle Shanahan offense that prioritizes getting open over the middle of the field and racking up yards after the catch.

But Pettis' tenure in the Bay wasn't the dream many conjured up. After a solid end to his rookie season,

Pettis showed up to 49ers' camp out of shape and quickly fell out of favor with Shanahan. His playing time dwindled during the second half of the 2019 season, and he was inactive for the 49ers' Super Bowl LIV loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

Shanahan challenged Pettis to come back stronger and more focused after a disappointing sophomore season. But Pettis didn't reverse course during the 2020 season, and the 49ers waived him after being unable to trade him before the deadline.

The New York Giants claimed Pettis, but he could not break through in the Meadowlands. After catching 38 passes for 576 yards and seven touchdowns in 28 games for the 48ers, Pettis caught just 14 passes for 163 yards and two scores in five games for the Giants.

The disappointing season in New York saw Pettis head into free agency with limited interest. NFL purgatory can be death for young receivers past their first and second chances.

The Bears called for a workout in May, and Pettis arrived in Chicago prepared to take full advantage of an opportunity to join a team without many proven receivers. After a successful workout, the Bears signed Pettis to a one-year contract.

In a crowded receiver room filled with guys fighting for their NFL existence, Pettis worked hard to showcase his versatility as a reliable receiver and punt returner. His ability to get open against man and zone has also given quarterback Justin Fields a comfort level with the former second-round pick.

"He's done a great job," offensive coordinator Luke Getsy said of Pettis. "I think an opportunity was presented and he's gone out and taken it by the horns. He's done a great job of being able to have flexibility to play multiple positions. He's presented one-on-one opportunities and he's won them, both in the practice and the preseason games. In our game, you've got to have guys that are able to win those one-on-one battles. He's done a nice job with that."
 
After being kicked to the curb by the 49ers and having his second chance in New York slip through his fingers, Pettis arrived in Chicago with a different view of the opportunity. The tough lessons from an early career fall gave him a different perspective on finding an NFL home and sticking there.

"I think every young football player, as they go through their seasons, learns a lot," Pettis told NBC Sports Chicago. "I think my lessons were, I don't want to say harder than anybody else's, but it was just a different situation than most people's journeys. So, it did teach me a lot. Not that I didn't take football serious or anything, it's just a different approach to it.

"Opportunities are not as easy to come by once you're out of that first two years. Those first two years, I feel like teams are a lot more lenient with players. They give their young players those opportunities and stuff. As the years go on, especially if you're not one of those proven vets, you're opportunities get smaller and smaller. So just being able to take advantage of those, being ready for every opportunity that's thrown at you."

Pettis looked to be behind the eight ball after missing a week of training camp due to an injury. With a crowded receiving corps, time on grass could have very well been the determining factor when it came to final roster spots.

But Pettis eked through the cut and now is one of three healthy Bears receivers on the active roster and the second most-accomplished receiver in the entire group. While that's not saying a lot, the state of the Bears' unheralded receiving corps presents a chance for Pettis to resurrect his career if he can continue to build chemistry and trust with Fields.

Grizzled by his early-career tribulations, Pettis doesn't view this as anything more than a chance to play the game he loves. He knows it can be taken away in an instant.

"Every day you have to prove what you can do," Pettis told NBC Sports Chicago. "I've learned that the last couple years. Guys can come in as high as can be and halfway through the season they're not even playing. Just come in every day with the attitude that I have something to prove, that little chip on my shoulder and being confident in yourself and being able to go to work every single day."

Pettis couldn't find a long-term home in the Bay or the Meadowlands.

But he's still only 26 years old. His route-running and versatility have given him another shot in Chicago.

One he knows he can't afford to waste.

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Hard Right Stokes Outrage After Search of Mar-a-Lago - The New York Times

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One week after a team of F.B.I. agents descended on his private club and residence in Florida, former President Donald J. Trump warned that his followers were enraged by the search — and that things could get out of hand if the Justice Department kept the heat on him.

“People are so angry at what is taking place,” Mr. Trump told Fox News. “Whatever we can do to help because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”

This week, one of Mr. Trump’s closest allies, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, issued a similar warning that Mr. Trump quickly reposted on his social media platform. Mr. Graham, in a Fox News appearance on Sunday, predicted that if the search of Mar-a-Lago led to a prosecution of the former president, there would be “riots in the streets.”

The assessments by both men were worded carefully enough that they could be defended as efforts to spare the nation unnecessary strife, and on Monday, Mr. Graham tried to walk back his remarks, saying, “I reject violence.”

But the statements could also be perceived as fanning the same flames of outrage they claimed to be trying to avert. They carried a distinct echo of Mr. Trump’s calls after the 2020 election to do what was needed to keep him in office, signals that contributed to the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol soon after he urged his supporters to “fight like hell.”

In a broader sense, the F.B.I.’s search of Mar-a-Lago has emerged as the latest rallying cry for those on the right who have long been suspicious that the powers of the federal government could be turned against them. It has prompted calls to dismantle or defund the F.B.I. and furious denunciations of what far-right supporters of Mr. Trump increasingly portray as an overreaching national security apparatus.

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump spent much of the morning reposting messages from known purveyors of the QAnon conspiracy theory and from 4chan, an anonymous message platform where threats of violence often blossom. Some were outright provocations, such as a photograph of President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker Nancy Pelosi with their faces obscured by the words, “Your enemy is not in Russia.”

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Over the past several years, intimations of violence have become more common in the Republican Party, a trend fueled in large part by Mr. Trump’s lies about his election loss. Threats of violent responses from the right have also shown up around policy changes such as the recent gun legislation signed into law by Mr. Biden and surrounding hot-button social issues like transgender rights and the teaching of antiracism themes in schools.

Now the response by Mr. Trump and some of his allies to the search at Mar-a-Lago — including statements laced with fury at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. — is underscoring yet again the degree to which threatening undertones are creeping into Republican political speech, raising concern about words spilling over into violent action.

After the search, the F.B.I. reported a spike in threats against its agents, and a Trump supporter who was reported to have been in Washington on Jan. 6 tried to break into the bureau’s Cincinnati field office, subsequently dying in a shootout with the local police. Within days of that attack, another man, who mentioned it in social media posts, was arrested on charges of making a round of threats against agents.

The threats are not limited to the F.B.I. or the Justice Department. Bruce E. Reinhart, the federal magistrate judge who approved the warrant to search Mar-a-Lago, has been the target of online attacks, with some people posting messages threatening him and his family.

Shortly after the search, Judge Reinhart’s synagogue in Florida, citing the threats, canceled its Friday evening services. Similarly, officials at the National Archives, in an internal email first reported by The Washington Post, described a surge of angry rhetoric directed at its staff.

At least so far, extremist groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, both of which are being prosecuted for the roles they played in the Capitol attack, have not publicly echoed Mr. Trump’s rants about the F.B.I. in any significant way. But pro-Trump websites are regularly filled with violent posts about doing harm to employees of the bureau.

In an appearance in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Mr. Biden condemned “friends on the other team” who have predicted political violence in the wake of the search. “It’s never appropriate,” he said. “Never. Period. Never, never, never.”

From the Russia investigation to two impeachment trials, Mr. Trump has often tried to demonize his adversaries, portraying their efforts to hold him accountable for his behavior — or even to examine it — as outrageous attempts directed by political foes to deprive him of power.

“The Raid on my home, Mar-a-Lago, is one of the most egregious assaults on democracy in the history of our Country,” Mr. Trump wrote this weekend on his social media platform, Truth Social. He went on to say that the nation was “going to places, in a very bad way, it has never seen before!”

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The former president’s response to the Mar-a-Lago search, which prompted a tidal wave of anger on the right, is just one example of how he has portrayed those who are investigating him as malicious and warned of the consequences of their actions.

Kenny Holston for The New York Times

“If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protests we have ever had in Washington, D.C.; in New York; in Atlanta; and elsewhere,” Mr. Trump said in January at a rally, “because our country and our elections are corrupt.”

He was referring to the three Black law enforcement officials who are leading separate inquiries into him, including possible fraud at his company in New York and his actions in Georgia to subvert the results of the 2020 election.

The consequences of provocative statements by Mr. Trump and his allies were placed into sharp relief by the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. In the months that preceded the riot, Mr. Trump used tactics similar to those that he employed after the Mar-a-Lago search, incessantly whipping up his followers by telling them that he — and they — had been wronged, and that they could not let the situation stand.

He used a Twitter post to summon his supporters to Washington on Jan. 6 and made clear that blocking or delaying congressional certification of the Electoral College outcome was the last opportunity to keep him in office. At midday on Jan. 6, he directed them to the Capitol and focused his ire on Vice President Mike Pence, leading to calls by the mob to hang Mr. Pence.

“Trump said things in advance, and in the aftermath, of Jan. 6 that look a lot like what we heard after the search at Mar-a-Lago — that people were and should be angry,” said Robert Pape, a professor at the University of Chicago who studies political violence. “He told people that their power had been taken from them illegitimately, the exact sort of thing that would make them angry. But he erased the fact that he had any role in nudging the anger along.”

On Jan. 6, the nation watched as thousands of Trump supporters responded to his words by traveling to Washington and storming the seat of Congress. Many of them, according to hundreds of criminal cases stemming from the riot, went to the Capitol believing they could rectify the supposed wrongs that had been done to Mr. Trump.

When asked, the former president’s spokesman, Taylor Budowich, did not address the question of whether Mr. Trump was concerned that his words could be, or were being, interpreted by his supporters as calls to action. He said instead that Mr. Trump was “disgusted by how the Democrats are destroying once great institutions, like the F.B.I., in their never-ending quest for absolute power,” adding that he “recognizes that the only way to save these institutions is to encourage the good people within them to speak out and restore truth!”

Experts in political violence say that while there is evidence that violent rhetoric, especially online, is running high, it is difficult to know how often — and precisely when — such language will lead to attacks.

Still, the recent surge of fury toward the F.B.I. is another palpable example of anger on the right seen in both public appearances by high-profile Republicans and in posts by Trump supporters on the internet. The outbursts have come after years of Mr. Trump and allies casting the bureau’s repeated investigations of him as baseless political attacks, a tactic that has served to defend Mr. Trump from blame while stoking fear and anger in his base.

The attacks against the F.B.I. from Mr. Trump and his supporters began in earnest in 2018 after agents searched the office of his personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, for evidence of campaign finance violations. After the search, Rudolph W. Giuliani, another lawyer close to Mr. Trump, went on a warpath, declaring that the F.B.I.’s office in New York — with which he had worked closely during his time as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan — had behaved like “storm troopers” in conducting the raid.

Since then, Mr. Trump and his allies have attacked the F.B.I. for its role in investigating his campaign’s ties to Russia; for purportedly failing to thoroughly investigate issues surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop; for using federal informants to infiltrate a group of militiamen charged with — and partly acquitted in — a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan; and for supposedly instigating the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Just this week, Mr. Trump included several of these F.B.I. attacks in a single post on Truth Social, repeating a claim by some of his favored media sources that a top agent in the Washington field office who had worked on the Hunter Biden laptop case and had tried to open an election-related inquiry into Mr. Trump had lost his job.

Kenny Holston for The New York Times

In the post, Mr. Trump sought, without evidence, to hold the former agent responsible for the search at Mar-a-Lago, too, calling it an event that had “created anger and hostility toward the FBI and DOJ.”

The F.B.I. declined to comment on a personnel matter, but the former agent retired after more than 20 years at the bureau. He had previously worked on high-profile public corruption investigations involving a former Democratic congressman convicted of bribery and the Clinton Foundation.

In a statement on Tuesday, the former agent, Timothy Thibault, said he voluntarily retired from the F.B.I., adding, “Claims to the contrary are false.”

Mr. Trump has managed to create a dynamic among many of his followers where the F.B.I.’s actions are, by necessity, regarded as nefarious, yet another crime in a litany of grievances. That is why, after so many examples, this latest instance of targeting the F.B.I. could present a danger, experts in political violence said.

Shannon Hiller, the executive director of the Bridging Divides Initiative at Princeton University, which tracks political violence in the United States, said she had hoped, after the attack on the F.B.I. field office in Cincinnati, that Republicans in particular would have “sobered up” and been reminded that violent rhetoric can have often real consequences.

But that has not happened, and Ms. Hiller remains concerned that unrest could continue and even increase if a prosecution of Mr. Trump were to come.

“There are credible reasons why a country might want to investigate a former leader and that can increase tensions in the short term,” she explained. “But it is important to do so to gain accountability and create credibility in the long term.”

“Unfortunately,” Ms. Hiller added, “in this country, it’s looking like it might be a long road.”

Adam Goldman contributed reporting.

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Hard Right Stokes Outrage After Search of Mar-a-Lago - The New York Times

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As they did before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the former president and his allies are fueling anger among supporters.

One week after a team of F.B.I. agents descended on his private club and residence in Florida, former President Donald J. Trump warned that his followers were enraged by the search — and that things could get out of hand if the Justice Department kept the heat on him.

“People are so angry at what is taking place,” Mr. Trump told Fox News. “Whatever we can do to help because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”

This week, one of Mr. Trump’s closest allies, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, issued a similar warning that Mr. Trump quickly reposted on his social media platform. Mr. Graham, in a Fox News appearance on Sunday, predicted that if the search of Mar-a-Lago led to a prosecution of the former president, there would be “riots in the streets.”

The assessments by both men were worded carefully enough that they could be defended as efforts to spare the nation unnecessary strife, and on Monday, Mr. Graham tried to walk back his remarks, saying, “I reject violence.”

But the statements could also be perceived as fanning the same flames of outrage they claimed to be trying to avert. They carried a distinct echo of Mr. Trump’s calls after the 2020 election to do what was needed to keep him in office, signals that contributed to the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol soon after he urged his supporters to “fight like hell.”

In a broader sense, the F.B.I.’s search of Mar-a-Lago has emerged as the latest rallying cry for those on the right who have long been suspicious that the powers of the federal government could be turned against them. It has prompted calls to dismantle or defund the F.B.I. and furious denunciations of what far-right supporters of Mr. Trump increasingly portray as an overreaching national security apparatus.

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump spent much of the morning reposting messages from known purveyors of the QAnon conspiracy theory and from 4chan, an anonymous message platform where threats of violence often blossom. Some were outright provocations, such as a photograph of President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker Nancy Pelosi with their faces obscured by the words, “Your enemy is not in Russia.”

Pete Marovich for The New York Times

Over the past several years, intimations of violence have become more common in the Republican Party, a trend fueled in large part by Mr. Trump’s lies about his election loss. Threats of violent responses from the right have also shown up around policy changes such as the recent gun legislation signed into law by Mr. Biden and surrounding hot-button social issues like transgender rights and the teaching of antiracism themes in schools.

Now the response by Mr. Trump and some of his allies to the search at Mar-a-Lago — including statements laced with fury at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. — is underscoring yet again the degree to which threatening undertones are creeping into Republican political speech, raising concern about words spilling over into violent action.

After the search, the F.B.I. reported a spike in threats against its agents, and a Trump supporter who was reported to have been in Washington on Jan. 6 tried to break into the bureau’s Cincinnati field office, subsequently dying in a shootout with the local police. Within days of that attack, another man, who mentioned it in social media posts, was arrested on charges of making a round of threats against agents.

The threats are not limited to the F.B.I. or the Justice Department. Bruce E. Reinhart, the federal magistrate judge who approved the warrant to search Mar-a-Lago, has been the target of online attacks, with some people posting messages threatening him and his family.

Shortly after the search, Judge Reinhart’s synagogue in Florida, citing the threats, canceled its Friday evening services. Similarly, officials at the National Archives, in an internal email first reported by The Washington Post, described a surge of angry rhetoric directed at its staff.

At least so far, extremist groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, both of which are being prosecuted for the roles they played in the Capitol attack, have not publicly echoed Mr. Trump’s rants about the F.B.I. in any significant way. But pro-Trump websites are regularly filled with violent posts about doing harm to employees of the bureau.

In an appearance in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Mr. Biden condemned “friends on the other team” who have predicted political violence in the wake of the search. “It’s never appropriate,” he said. “Never. Period. Never, never, never.”

From the Russia investigation to two impeachment trials, Mr. Trump has often tried to demonize his adversaries, portraying their efforts to hold him accountable for his behavior — or even to examine it — as outrageous attempts directed by political foes to deprive him of power.

“The Raid on my home, Mar-a-Lago, is one of the most egregious assaults on democracy in the history of our Country,” Mr. Trump wrote this weekend on his social media platform, Truth Social. He went on to say that the nation was “going to places, in a very bad way, it has never seen before!”

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How Times reporters cover politics. We rely on our journalists to be independent observers. So while Times staff members may vote, they are not allowed to endorse or campaign for candidates or political causes. This includes participating in marches or rallies in support of a movement or giving money to, or raising money for, any political candidate or election cause.

Learn more about our process.

The former president’s response to the Mar-a-Lago search, which prompted a tidal wave of anger on the right, is just one example of how he has portrayed those who are investigating him as malicious and warned of the consequences of their actions.

Kenny Holston for The New York Times

“If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protests we have ever had in Washington, D.C.; in New York; in Atlanta; and elsewhere,” Mr. Trump said in January at a rally, “because our country and our elections are corrupt.”

He was referring to the three Black law enforcement officials who are leading separate inquiries into him, including possible fraud at his company in New York and his actions in Georgia to subvert the results of the 2020 election.

The consequences of provocative statements by Mr. Trump and his allies were placed into sharp relief by the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. In the months that preceded the riot, Mr. Trump used tactics similar to those that he employed after the Mar-a-Lago search, incessantly whipping up his followers by telling them that he — and they — had been wronged, and that they could not let the situation stand.

He used a Twitter post to summon his supporters to Washington on Jan. 6 and made clear that blocking or delaying congressional certification of the Electoral College outcome was the last opportunity to keep him in office. At midday on Jan. 6, he directed them to the Capitol and focused his ire on Vice President Mike Pence, leading to calls by the mob to hang Mr. Pence.

“Trump said things in advance, and in the aftermath, of Jan. 6 that look a lot like what we heard after the search at Mar-a-Lago — that people were and should be angry,” said Robert Pape, a professor at the University of Chicago who studies political violence. “He told people that their power had been taken from them illegitimately, the exact sort of thing that would make them angry. But he erased the fact that he had any role in nudging the anger along.”

On Jan. 6, the nation watched as thousands of Trump supporters responded to his words by traveling to Washington and storming the seat of Congress. Many of them, according to hundreds of criminal cases stemming from the riot, went to the Capitol believing they could rectify the supposed wrongs that had been done to Mr. Trump.

When asked, the former president’s spokesman, Taylor Budowich, did not address the question of whether Mr. Trump was concerned that his words could be, or were being, interpreted by his supporters as calls to action. He said instead that Mr. Trump was “disgusted by how the Democrats are destroying once great institutions, like the F.B.I., in their never-ending quest for absolute power,” adding that he “recognizes that the only way to save these institutions is to encourage the good people within them to speak out and restore truth!”

Experts in political violence say that while there is evidence that violent rhetoric, especially online, is running high, it is difficult to know how often — and precisely when — such language will lead to attacks.

Still, the recent surge of fury toward the F.B.I. is another palpable example of anger on the right seen in both public appearances by high-profile Republicans and in posts by Trump supporters on the internet. The outbursts have come after years of Mr. Trump and allies casting the bureau’s repeated investigations of him as baseless political attacks, a tactic that has served to defend Mr. Trump from blame while stoking fear and anger in his base.

The attacks against the F.B.I. from Mr. Trump and his supporters began in earnest in 2018 after agents searched the office of his personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, for evidence of campaign finance violations. After the search, Rudolph W. Giuliani, another lawyer close to Mr. Trump, went on a warpath, declaring that the F.B.I.’s office in New York — with which he had worked closely during his time as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan — had behaved like “storm troopers” in conducting the raid.

Since then, Mr. Trump and his allies have attacked the F.B.I. for its role in investigating his campaign’s ties to Russia; for purportedly failing to thoroughly investigate issues surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop; for using federal informants to infiltrate a group of militiamen charged with — and partly acquitted in — a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan; and for supposedly instigating the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Just this week, Mr. Trump included several of these F.B.I. attacks in a single post on Truth Social, repeating a claim by some of his favored media sources that a top agent in the Washington field office who had worked on the Hunter Biden laptop case and had tried to open an election-related inquiry into Mr. Trump had lost his job.

Kenny Holston for The New York Times

In the post, Mr. Trump sought, without evidence, to hold the former agent responsible for the search at Mar-a-Lago, too, calling it an event that had “created anger and hostility toward the FBI and DOJ.”

The F.B.I. declined to comment on a personnel matter, but the former agent retired after more than 20 years at the bureau. He had previously worked on high-profile public corruption investigations involving a former Democratic congressman convicted of bribery and the Clinton Foundation.

In a statement on Tuesday, the former agent, Timothy Thibault, said he voluntarily retired from the F.B.I., adding, “Claims to the contrary are false.”

Mr. Trump has managed to create a dynamic among many of his followers where the F.B.I.’s actions are, by necessity, regarded as nefarious, yet another crime in a litany of grievances. That is why, after so many examples, this latest instance of targeting the F.B.I. could present a danger, experts in political violence said.

Shannon Hiller, the executive director of the Bridging Divides Initiative at Princeton University, which tracks political violence in the United States, said she had hoped, after the attack on the F.B.I. field office in Cincinnati, that Republicans in particular would have “sobered up” and been reminded that violent rhetoric can have often real consequences.

But that has not happened, and Ms. Hiller remains concerned that unrest could continue and even increase if a prosecution of Mr. Trump were to come.

“There are credible reasons why a country might want to investigate a former leader and that can increase tensions in the short term,” she explained. “But it is important to do so to gain accountability and create credibility in the long term.”

“Unfortunately,” Ms. Hiller added, “in this country, it’s looking like it might be a long road.”

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Hayden Brice senior spotlight: ‘The value of hard work’ - Auburn Tigers Official Athletic Site

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AUBURN, Ala. – Hayden Brice’s career has had a lot of changes, including two stops in junior college and two position changes, but it’s clear that the Auburn senior edge defender is making most of the opportunity to play at his dream school on the Plains.

Originally from Jackson, Mississippi, where he graduated from St. Joseph Catholic School, Brice was a multi-sport athlete growing up. In addition to football, he also played basketball, was involved in track and field, and swam. Ultimately, he decided to focus on football over his second favorite sport, basketball, while he was in high school.

“I played AAU basketball when I was in the 10th grade. I remember going to a tournament in Atlanta, walking in the gym and seeing these other kids that were like seven feet tall,” said Brice who now stands 6-foot-3. “They were already this tall at the age of 16. After that, I realized that I might not get any taller, but I knew that I was definitely big enough to be a football player. So, I just put all my focus into football after the 10th grade.”

Following high school, Brice continued his football career as a wide receiver in the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges, playing first at Pearl River Community College in 2018, where he recorded eight catches for 136 yards, and then at Northeast Mississippi Community College in 2019, where he totaled eight catches for 220 yards and a touchdown.

After his 2019 season at NMCC, Brice had his sights set on one school – Auburn University.

“I never actually took a visit to Auburn,” the senior said. “Auburn was the only school that I applied to, so when I got in, I came. Auburn was a dream school for me.”

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AUBURN, Ala. – Hayden Brice’s career has had a lot of changes, including two stops in junior college and two position changes, but it’s clear that the Auburn senior edge defender is making most of the opportunity to play at his dream school on the Plains.

Originally from Jackson, Mississippi, where he graduated from St. Joseph Catholic School, Brice was a multi-sport athlete growing up. In addition to football, he also played basketball, was involved in track and field, and swam. Ultimately, he decided to focus on football over his second favorite sport, basketball, while he was in high school.

“I played AAU basketball when I was in the 10th grade. I remember going to a tournament in Atlanta, walking in the gym and seeing these other kids that were like seven feet tall,” said Brice who now stands 6-foot-3. “They were already this tall at the age of 16. After that, I realized that I might not get any taller, but I knew that I was definitely big enough to be a football player. So, I just put all my focus into football after the 10th grade.”

Following high school, Brice continued his football career as a wide receiver in the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges, playing first at Pearl River Community College in 2018, where he recorded eight catches for 136 yards, and then at Northeast Mississippi Community College in 2019, where he totaled eight catches for 220 yards and a touchdown.

After his 2019 season at NMCC, Brice had his sights set on one school – Auburn University.

“I never actually took a visit to Auburn,” the senior said. “Auburn was the only school that I applied to, so when I got in, I came. Auburn was a dream school for me.”

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Floods have killed at least 1,100 and submerged about a third of the country. We explain the factors making it so bad.

After a spring of deadly heat waves, summer floods have killed more than 1,100 people in Pakistan. Since June, rains have washed away buildings, submerged homes and destroyed roads. One-third of the country is underwater.

Scientists can’t yet say exactly how climate change has shaped the disaster, but they know that global warming is sharply increasing the likelihood of extreme rain in South Asia, home to a quarter of humanity. There is little doubt that it made this year’s monsoon season more destructive.

Today, I’ll talk about some of the climate factors in play and why Pakistan, a country that has done very little to cause global warming but is now among the most vulnerable to its effects, has been hit so hard.

Global warming and the monsoon

The South Asian summer monsoon is part of a regional weather pattern. Basically, winds tend to blow from the southwest from June through September. That onshore breeze brings wet weather. In normal times, that’s generally a good thing. Farmers all over the region count on monsoon rains for their crops.

But these are no longer normal times. Global warming means that water evaporates much faster out at sea. And, a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. So, monsoons risk bringing way too much rain.

Researchers will need time to conduct attribution studies to understand exactly what happened this summer, but Steven Clemens, a professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown University, said the months of deluge in Pakistan are “super consistent with what we expect in the future” as the planet heats up.

This monsoon season, rainfall in Pakistan has been nearly three times the national average of the past 30 years, the country’s disaster agency said. In Sindh Province, which borders the Arabian Sea to the south, rainfall is nearly five times the average.

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Why preparation and recovery are so hard

The challenge of preparing for more intense rains is complicated by persistent political instability in Pakistan. No prime minister has ever completed a full term in office. In April, former Prime Minister Imran Khan was forced out. This month, he was charged under antiterrorism laws amid a power struggle with the current leadership.

The country’s difficult economic situation also means there aren’t sufficient resources for adaptation projects. At one point this month, annual inflation was measured at 42.3 percent.

Madiha Afzal, an analyst at the Brookings Institution in Washington, told me the economic and political turmoil shifted attention away from the heavy rainfall and delayed the government’s response.

“People weren’t focusing on that,” she said. “So things that should happen in a disaster, like getting the word out for people to evacuate from areas where there was going to be flooding, didn’t happen.”

The economic problems, Afzal said, are also likely to affect the government’s ability to shelter the displaced and rebuild what was destroyed. Agriculture is likely to take an especially big hit. According to World Bank data, the sector employs almost 40 percent of Pakistanis. Across the border in India, it accounts for close to half of all jobs.

The United States this month announced $1 million in aid to help Pakistan cope with disasters. And the country on Monday secured a $1.1 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to avert an imminent default. But government officials in Pakistan estimate the damage of these floods alone will run over $10 billion.

It’s not just about money and political will, though.

Clemens told me models and the computers that run them can’t yet predict precisely when and where an extreme weather event will happen, or how a specific area will be affected. Getting adaptation projects right in this context won’t be easy.

The floods in Pakistan offered an example. A bridge that had been rebuilt 16 feet, or five meters, higher after it was destroyed during record flooding in 2010 was again inundated days ago.

Related: How is climate change affecting floods?

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Warming Greenland: A study predicted that melting ice on the island could eventually raise global sea levels by 10 inches, or 27 centimeters, much more than previous estimates.

Suing Big Oil: Some city councilors in Vancouver want to go to court to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for damages caused by climate change.

Deep sea mining: An international agency gave a Canadian company access to confidential data that will help it mine for battery metals on the ocean floor.

A taste for waste? Officials are trying to convince the British to be “less squeamish” about drinking recycled sewage water. Droughts will very likely make it necessary.

‘Forever chemicals’: The E.P.A. will designate two common PFAS substances as hazardous. It may make companies responsible for cleaning up leaks.

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• Inside Climate News explained why lobbying groups representing U.S. farmers are fighting new financial regulations aimed at corporate climate transparency.

• Nola.com described a Native American community’s struggle to escape rising sea levels in Louisiana.

• The Washington Post reported on “heat officers” and how they’re helping cities cope with hotter summers.

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Hiring the best talent has never been easy for startups. Things got even harder when the pandemic shrank the available talent pool and 2021 set a record for venture capital fundraising, meaning more companies with more cash in the market. The result? A major talent shortage and a hyper-competitive job market.

Despite the fact that some tech companies have begun executing layoffs and others — like the Big Five — are slowing or stopping hiring altogether, the tech talent market is still hot.

Knowing how to navigate this changing labor landscape is essential for founders, which is why we’re thrilled to announce that Chris Herd, founder and CEO at Firstbase and Emil Yeargin, vice president of talent at Gusto, will help chart this territory onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco.

In a conversation called “How to secure those hard-to-find hires,” we’ll explore what early-stage founders need to know to be competitive in a more remote-friendly world. Our panel will also look at what it takes today to attract top talent for hard-to-fill roles in areas like AI, crypto, data science, engineering and senior management. Hint: Securing a hard-to-get hire may require something other than just offering more money or the right title.

Chris Herd is the founder and CEO of Firstbase, an all-in-one provisioning platform for remote teams. The monthly subscription-based platform lets companies set up, supply, maintain, manage and retrieve all the physical equipment remote workers need to do great work at home.

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Why Is It Hard For Murder Mystery Shows to Have A Good Second Season? - GameRant

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Lions releasing LB Jarrad Davis, 'Hard Knocks' favorite WR Kalil Pimpleton - NFL.com

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The Lions, like the rest of the NFL, are in the midst of juggling their roster to cut down to 53 players. It won't include a former first-round pick or a Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Detroit Lions favorite.

Jarrad Davis' second stint with the Lions is over. The team is releasing the linebacker, along with rookie wide receiver/kick returner Kalil Pimpleton, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Monday.

Davis arrived in Detroit via the 21st-overall selection in the 2017 draft and played in 14 games as a rookie, but never quite lived up to top-choice expectations. After four seasons with the Lions, he moved to New York, where he lasted just one year with the Jets before returning to Detroit this offseason.

The reunion made sense. Still a team attempting to rise from the lower third of the NFL, Detroit could use some experienced depth, and Davis was familiar with the franchise even if he hadn't played for coach Dan Campbell. Instead, Davis failed to latch on, playing deep into Detroit's Week 2 preseason win over Indianapolis as part of a defense dotted with hopefuls, not guaranteed members of the final roster.

As it turns out, Davis' spot wasn't guaranteed, either. His release is a bit of a surprise due to his standing as a former first-round selection, but those who have kept an eye on him shouldn't be stunned. At 27 years old, Davis is free to find employment elsewhere.

The same is true for undrafted free agent and Hard Knocks focal point Pimpleton. The former Central Michigan receiver attracted attention from NFL Films' cameras during the preseason thanks to his juggling ability and his slightly oversized pads, but struggled to consistently produce. Though he caught three of five targets for 23 yards in the Week 2 win over Indianapolis, Pimpleton failed to haul in a well-placed pass from David Blough that would have produced a first-half touchdown in the game. A week later, he caught another three passes on five targets for 31 yards.

The Lions are also waiving wide receiver Tom Kennedy, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported.

Detroit has multiple pass-catching options -- 15 different players saw targets in Week 3 -- and that's without mentioning the franchise's newest prized toy, Alabama receiver Jameson Williams. Ultimately, it's a numbers game, and no matter how well Pimpleton proved he could juggle, the Lions' attempt left him without a job.

There are returner jobs available elsewhere in the NFL, and Pimpleton could find his way into one. Hopefully his equipment fits him better than it did in Detroit.

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Men’s Soccer Falls to NJIT in Hard Fought Match - James Madison University Athletics

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HARRISONBURG, Va. – After a defensive stalemate began the contest, James Madison men's soccer fell to NJIT, 1-0, on Sunday afternoon at Sentara Park.
 
The Dukes fall to 1-1, as the Highlanders move to 1-0-1.
 
Redshirt sophomore Ethan Taylor and freshman Cameron Arnold led the offense, each getting two shots off with both of Taylor's put on goal and one of Arnold's.
 
How It Happened

• Offense was a premium through the first half, as the first shot in the match came from NJIT in the 31^st minute.
• Taylor was able to get off JMU's first shot in the 42^nd minute, with it being saved that set up a corner kick.
• Taylor took a second shot in the 45^th minute that was also saved.
• The offense picked up in the second half, after a pair of shots from NJIT in the 47^th minute.
• NJIT found the back of the net in the 51^st minute off a free kick that Asembo Augo was able to head for the 1-0 lead.
• The Highlanders went around 30 minutes without a shot or corner kick after the goal, as the Dukes put pressure on NJIT's backline by taking four shots and setting up five corner kicks.
• JMU had one final chance in the 88^th minute, but Arnold had his shot saved.

 
Game Notes

• JMU had advantages in shots (9-8) and corner kicks (6-4).
• NJIT's goal was the lone shot the Dukes allowed on goal.

 
Quoting Head Coach Paul Zazenski
"We are very disappointed today and the effort levels were not up to the standards of JMU men's soccer."
 
Up Next
The Dukes hit the road for their next three matches, beginning with a trip to Charlottesville, Va. to take on Virginia on Thursday, Sept. 1. The match is scheduled for 8 p.m. and will be streamed on ACC Network Extra.
 

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In New Hampshire, Republicans Weigh Another Hard-Right Candidate - The New York Times

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Don Bolduc, a retired Army general, has played to the Republican base and is leading in polls to take on Senator Maggie Hassan, who is viewed as vulnerable in November.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — He has said the state’s popular Republican governor is “a Chinese Communist sympathizer,” called for the repeal of the 17th Amendment allowing direct popular election of senators and raised the possibility of abolishing the F.B.I.

The man behind these statements is Don Bolduc, a retired Army general who leads the Republican field in what should be a competitive race for the New Hampshire Senate seat held by Senator Maggie Hassan, a Democrat.

In one primary after another this year, Republican voters have chosen hard-right candidates who party officials had warned would have trouble winning in November, and Mr. Bolduc could be on course to be the next. Like him, many embraced former President Donald J. Trump’s election denial. “I signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying that Donald Trump won the election and, damn it, I stand by” it, Mr. Bolduc said at a recent debate.

The suddenly fraught midterm landscape for Republicans caused Senator Mitch McConnell, the G.O.P. leader, to complain recently that poor “candidate quality” could cost his party a majority in the Senate that had long seemed the likely result.

In the final competitive primary of the year, scheduled for Sept. 13, Republican officials in New Hampshire are echoing Mr. McConnell. They warn that grass-roots voters are poised to elect another problematic nominee, Mr. Bolduc, and jeopardize a winnable race against a vulnerable Democrat.

This month, Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican moderate broadly popular in his purple state, said on New Hampshire talk radio that Mr. Bolduc was a “conspiracy theorist-type candidate.” He added: “If he were the nominee, I have no doubt we would have a much harder time trying to win that seat back.”

Mr. Bolduc, who served 10 tours in Afghanistan, held a formidable lead with Republican voters in a poll this month, in large part because he has barnstormed continuously for more than two years, while his rivals joined the race later. The contest was effectively frozen for a year until November, when Mr. Sununu, a top recruiting target of national Republicans, declined to run for Senate, deciding instead to seek a fourth term as governor.

Mr. Bolduc has built a following by offering red meat to the conservative base. But New Hampshire is a politically divided state where Republicans who win statewide traditionally appeal to independents and conservative Democrats. Its four-member congressional delegation is entirely Democratic; state government is firmly in the hands of Republicans.

“We’re not a red state, we’re not a blue state, we’re a weird state,” said Greg Moore, a Republican operative not involved in the Senate primary. He was skeptical that Mr. Bolduc, after targeting only his party’s base, would be able to attract a broader coalition in November.

In a debate on Wednesday outside Manchester, Mr. Bolduc denounced the provision in Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act authorizing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices, saying, “Anything the government’s involved in, it’s not good, it doesn’t work.”

A rival of Mr. Bolduc’s, Kevin Smith, told him at an earlier debate, “You know, Don, your M.O. seems to be ‘Fire, ready, aim.’”

Mr. Bolduc, 60, is a compact figure who still sports a military haircut close-cropped on the sides. In the minutes before the debate went live on Newsmax, while other candidates studied their notes, he spontaneously led the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance and in singing “God Bless America.”

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A poll this month by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics showed Mr. Bolduc with support from 32 percent of registered Republican voters, well ahead of his closest rival, Chuck Morse, the State Senate president, who was at 16 percent. Others in the poll, including Mr. Smith, a former Londonderry town manger, were in the low single digits.

All of the candidates have struggled to raise money and draw voters’ attention — 39 percent of Republicans said in the poll they were still undecided.

That gives Mr. Bolduc’s rivals hope, although time is running out: The primary is just one week after Labor Day, when most voters traditionally tune in.

Ms. Hassan has long been seen as vulnerable. Just 39 percent of voters in the Institute of Politics survey said she deserved to be re-elected.

At the debate outside Manchester, the candidates bashed Ms. Hassan, a former governor, linking her to rising gas prices and expected high prices for home heating oil this winter.

Ms. Hassan, in response, defended voting for Democrats’ climate and prescription drug law. “While I’m fighting to get results for New Hampshire, my opponents are out on the campaign trail defending Big Oil and Big Pharma and bragging about their records of opposing a woman’s fundamental freedom,” she said in a statement.

Mr. Trump has made no endorsement in New Hampshire, and he may not make one at all. He snubbed Mr. Bolduc in a 2020 Senate primary, endorsing a rival. Neither Mr. Bolduc nor Mr. Morse has spoken to Mr. Trump lately about the race, according to their campaigns.

Corey Lewandowski, Mr. Trump’s first 2016 campaign manager, who is a New Hampshire resident, has publicly urged his former boss not to back Mr. Bolduc, calling him “not a serious candidate.”

Mr. Bolduc declined to comment for this article. Rick Wiley, a senior adviser to Mr. Bolduc, said the criticisms of him — that he is unelectable, that independents won’t vote for him — were the same ones thrown at Mr. Trump in 2016.

“The electorate wants an outsider, that is resoundingly clear,” Mr. Wiley said. Shrugging off Mr. Sununu’s criticisms, he added: “I expect we’re probably going to be sharing a ballot with the governor. There will be unity on the ticket in November and Republicans up and down the ballot will be successful because of the policies Biden and Maggie Hassan have put in place.”

The biggest primary threat to Mr. Bolduc, and the preferred candidate of much of what remains of the G.O.P. establishment, is Mr. Morse, a low-key, self-made tree nursery owner with a strong Granite State accent, who appears in his TV ads riding a tractor at dawn at his operation in southern New Hampshire.

Despite his prominent role in state government, a poll in April found that 54 percent of Republican voters didn’t know enough about Mr. Morse to have an opinion. Just 2 percent named him as their choice for the nomination. His ascent to 16 percent in the latest public poll this month is seen by supporters as a sign of momentum.

Dave Carney, a strategist for Mr. Morse, agreed that Mr. Bolduc was the current race leader. But he said that Mr. Morse’s superior fund-raising, which allowed him to buy TV ads, was raising his profile, and predicted that he would continue to gain on Mr. Bolduc.

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“Sixty-one percent of the voters are willing to replace Hassan,” Mr. Carney said, referring to the share of voters in the Institute of Politics survey who said that it was time to give someone new a chance to be senator or that they were undecided. “We need to nominate somebody who can do that.” He called Mr. Bolduc a “flawed candidate,” adding, “I don’t think there’s any way in hell he could get conservative Democrats or the vast majority of independents to go his way.”

Mr. Morse had $975,000 in his campaign account as of July, compared with Mr. Bolduc, who had just $65,000. Ms. Hassan’s $7.3 million on hand has allowed her to aggressively spend on TV ads all year, including one promoting her work for people with disabilities that features her son, who was born with cerebral palsy.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee, which this month slashed its planned spending in three battleground states — Pennsylvania, Arizona and Wisconsin — has kept a commitment to spend $6.5 million on the New Hampshire race after the primary, reflecting its belief in Ms. Hassan’s vulnerability.

With the Senate divided 50-50 between the parties and Democrats optimistic about flipping at least one seat, in Pennsylvania, Republicans need to take down two or more Democratic incumbents to win a majority. Their top targets are in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and New Hampshire.

At the recent debate, the audience was mostly committed supporters of each of the candidates, with few appearing undecided. Bolduc fans dismissed out of hand Mr. Sununu’s view that their candidate would have a hard time in November.

“Sununu is a globalist clown and is not a Republican,” said Kelley Potenza, a candidate for the state House of Representatives who is from Rochester. “He’s afraid because Don Bolduc is the only candidate that’s not going to be controlled.”

In the audience before the lights went down, Bill Bowen, a recent transplant from California and a Morse supporter, said Mr. Bolduc had reached his ceiling in the polls. He said supporters of Mr. Bolduc who ignored doubts about his electability in November were misguided.

“That’s all that matters,” he said, adding, “This is the 51st vote,” referring to a potential Republican majority in the Senate.

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