Jul 14, 2026 · 51 min · 13 segments
Heath Howard is a progressive congressional candidate running in New Hampshire’s 1st congressional district in the Democrat primary on September 8th. Heath sits down with me to discuss his background…
Heath HowardGuestBrandonHostSo, um, first and foremost, uh, how are you doing today, and how have things been going with the campaign up to this point?
Uh, we just had a poll drop this week, and it may be a nine-person primary, but this is a three-way race.
Right
... uh, the two establishment candidates, the daughter of our outgoing US senator and the vice chair of the state party, and myself, and it's, uh, everybody else is at 3% or less.
And New Hampshire is a state where people forget because it is ki- the politics are pretty weird.
Uh, we have a full Republican trifecta at the state level, yet a full Democratic delegation at the federal level, and it's really a unique type of voting base.
And people oftentimes don't remember that Bernie Sanders won the state not once, but twice.
And we have real momentum, I think, to put the positions that have been developed over the past 10 years and really kind of flushed out and really kind of move forward in a direction that is going to actually move our state and our country in the proper direction.
Because this is a race, like many races around the country right now, that is very clearly establishment versus progressive, and we need to capitalize on this moment.
So, um, first and foremost, uh, how are you doing today, and how have things been going with the campaign up to this point?
Uh, we just had a poll drop this week, and it may be a nine-person primary, but this is a three-way race.
Right
... uh, the two establishment candidates, the daughter of our outgoing US senator and the vice chair of the state party, and myself, and it's, uh, everybody else is at 3% or less.
And New Hampshire is a state where people forget because it is ki- the politics are pretty weird.
Uh, we have a full Republican trifecta at the state level, yet a full Democratic delegation at the federal level, and it's really a unique type of voting base.
And people oftentimes don't remember that Bernie Sanders won the state not once, but twice.
And we have real momentum, I think, to put the positions that have been developed over the past 10 years and really kind of flushed out and really kind of move forward in a direction that is going to actually move our state and our country in the proper direction.
Because this is a race, like many races around the country right now, that is very clearly establishment versus progressive, and we need to capitalize on this moment.
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