Lewandowski: House testimony shows I’d be ‘a fighter’ in the Senate

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said in an interview broadcast Sunday that a combative House hearing illustrated qualities that would make him a good Senate candidate while remaining noncommittal on whether he would mount a bid in New Hampshire.

“I’m very, very seriously thinking about running for the United States Senate,” Lewandowski told radio host John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York, adding that “no American citizen should have to go through what I had to go through” or “be disparaged or attacked the way that I was by these committee members because they didn’t like my politics.”

{mosads}Lewandowski also accused the House Judiciary Committee of targeting him for his support of President Trump, telling Catsimatidis, “When you attack a Trump supporter, it’s OK. There are two different sets of rules. And the American people are tired of it. And I believe the people of New Hampshire, they want a fighter in the United States Senate. And I’d say this week was a clarification of that’s who I am.”

The former campaign manager has long teased a potential run for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s (D-N.H.) seat in 2020, tweeting out a website hinting at such a campaign during the hearing last Tuesday and saying the next day that he was “very close” to a decision.

House Democrats have pressured Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) to hold Lewandowski in contempt over the hearing, in which he refused to answer questions about alleged obstruction by Trump in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and had contentious exchanges with members including Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas).

“The greater issue is the integrity of our process and the fact that we can’t allow it to be trashed like Lewandowski trashed it — all the way from his opening statement to his exit from the committee room,” Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) told The Hill last week.