Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire isn’t running for re-election this year. The Republican and the Democrat nominees in the fight to take her place were decided yesterday in New Hampshire’s rather tardy primary. They are ex-senator John Sununu (not to be confused with his father John Sununu or his brother Chris Sununu, each of whom have been Republican governors of the state) and current House member Chris Pappas.

So Shaheen (who also is an ex-governor of the state) is going to be retiring and replaced by one or the other. But she’s not to be outdone in the family dynasty sweepstakes: her daughter Stefany Shaheen won the Democratic primary for House District 1 in New Hampshire, which is the district Pappas currently represents.

Shaheen the Elder was in the news, however, and the subject was her profound ignorance and/or duplicity:

? WOW! Fox News just absolutely stunned Sen. Jeane Shaheen (D).

SHAHEEN: I haven't heard anyone in my party wanting to give illegals taxpayer-funded healthcare!

FOX: I'm glad you said that. I have some tape…

"Show of hands: provide coverage for illegal aliens?"

EVERY… pic.twitter.com/vAch22LsJp

— War Correspondent (@warDaniel47) September 8, 2026

I’ve written about Shaheen before; see this 2021 post in which I explain why she gets my goat:

Those of you who aren’t from New England may be unaware of Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire. It’s an ignorance for which you are hereby wholly forgiven, because she usually presents as the most bland and boring of moderates and hardly ever makes the news.

But she is not moderate, and never has been in her entire Senate tenure, although her profile has been exceedingly low. Beneath that kindly and smiling grandmotherly exterior, she has never mounted an objection, as far as I know, to a single part of the extreme leftist program of the current Democratic Party, dutifully voting for all that they propose with nary a discouraging word.

Shaheen is basically a phony moderate of a type that has become standard in the Democrat Party. Pappas – her possible replacement – is no better.