Warren to stump for Shaheen in NH

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is heading north to New Hampshire to rally Democratic voters against her old rival, former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.).

Warren is hitting the stump for New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D) on Oct. 25, according to The Boston Globe. Shaheen is facing a challenge from Brown, who lost his Massachusetts Senate seat to Warren in 2012.

{mosads}“Never in a bazillion years did it cross my mind that Scott Brown would pack up and move to his vacation house in New Hampshire to run against our friend Jeanne,” Warren wrote in a fundraising email to supporters of her and Shaheen.

Warren, a freshman senator, is a favorite of the Democratic Party’s liberal base for taking a tough stance on Wall Street. Some progressives are also pushing her to mount a 2016 presidential bid.

Warren said the Senate race in New Hampshire is now “neck and neck” and that she wants “to make sure our neighbors know as much about Scott Brown’s record as the voters of Massachusetts did when they decided to turn him out.” 

Brown won a special election in 2010 to fill the seat left open by the death of longtime Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). Warren challenged him for the seat in 2012, winning by 8 percentage points.

Brown has since decided to run again in the Granite State. He’s owned a home there that is now his primary residence and has family ties to the state.

The most recent poll in the race, from Suffolk University and the Boston Herald, gives Shaheen a slim 3-point advantage a little over two weeks before Election Day.

Brown, though, outraised Shaheen in the third quarter.

The New Hampshire contest is one of a handful of tight races that could help swing Senate control as Republicans try to net six seats to capture the upper chamber.