Karoline Leavitt

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| name = Karoline Leavitt

| image = Karoline Leavitt by Gage Skidmore 2 (cropped 2).jpg

| caption = Leavitt in 2025

| order = 36th

| office = White House Press Secretary

| president = Donald Trump

| deputy = {{Ubl|Anna Kelly|Kush Desai}}

| term_start = January 20, 2025

| term_end =

| predecessor = Karine Jean-Pierre

| successor =

| birth_name = Karoline Claire Leavitt

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1997|8|24}}

| birth_place = Atkinson, New Hampshire, US

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Republican

| spouse = {{Marriage|Nicholas Riccio|2025}}

| children = 1

| education = Saint Anselm College (BA)

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Karoline Claire Leavitt ({{ipac-en|ˈ|l|ɛ|v|ɪ|t}} {{respell|LEV|it}}; born August 24, 1997) is an American political spokesperson who has served since 2025 as the 36th White House press secretary under the second Trump administration. A member of the Republican Party, she was previously an unsuccessful candidate for New Hampshire's 1st congressional district in the 2022 election.

Leavitt studied politics and communication at Saint Anselm College, writing for the school newspaper and founding a broadcasting club. She interned in the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence and later became its associate director. In June 2020, Leavitt became an assistant White House press secretary. After Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election, she became a communications director for New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik.

In July 2021, Leavitt announced her campaign for the United States House of Representatives election for New Hampshire's first congressional district. She established herself as a pro-Trump candidate. Leavitt won the Republican primary, though she lost to Democratic incumbent Chris Pappas. She served as a spokeswoman for MAGA Inc., Trump's super PAC, and became the press secretary for his 2024 presidential campaign.

In November 2024, then-President-elect Donald Trump named Leavitt as his White House press secretary. She is the youngest person to hold the position in U.S. history.

Early life and education (1997–2019)

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Karoline Claire Leavitt{{Cite document |title=Karoline Claire Leavitt in the Washington, District of Columbia, U.S., Voter Registration Records, 1929-2023 |publisher=Voter Registration Records}} was born on August 24, 1997, in Atkinson, New Hampshire.{{Cite web |last=Sexton |first=Adam |url=https://www.wmur.com/article/karoline-leavitt-new-hampshire-2022/40849523 |title=Karoline Leavitt, R, 2022 candidate for 1st Congressional District seat in New Hampshire |date=August 9, 2022 |website=WMUR |access-date=April 18, 2025}} She was born the fourth and youngest child to Bob and Erin Leavitt.{{Cite web |last=Griffith |first=Ivy |date=2025-01-28 |title=Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's Parents Gave Her a Traditional Catholic Upbringing |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-s-parents-gave-her-a-traditional-catholic-upbringing/ar-AA1y1xib?ocid=BingNewsVerp |access-date=2025-05-02 |website=MSN}} Her family owns an ice cream stand in Atkinson and her father owns a used truck dealership in Plaistow.{{Cite web |last=DiStaso |first=John |url=https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-primary-source-leavitt-says-dems-abandoned-her-familys-business-despite-covid-relief-loans/37096777 |title=Leavitt says Dems 'abandoned' her family's business despite COVID relief loans |date=July 22, 2021 |website=WMUR |author-link=John DiStaso |access-date=April 18, 2025}} Leavitt attended Central Catholic High School, a private Catholic school in Lawrence, Massachusetts. She played softball and was named an Eagle-Tribune All-Star in 2014 and 2015.{{Cite web |last=Burt |first=Bill |url=https://www.eagletribune.com/news/merrimack_valley/meet-the-assistant-press-secretary/article_cf79da8f-fed1-5769-99c4-7adc1aa72c6f.html |title=Meet the assistant press secretary |date=November 29, 2020 |work=The Eagle-Tribune |access-date=April 19, 2025}} In interviews she has credited her Roman Catholic education as formative for her spirituality and instilling her with certain mores, including faith, family, discipline, the importance of public service, and pro-life values.{{Cite web |last=Bookman |first=Todd |url=https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2022-10-19/it-may-be-her-first-campaign-but-building-blocks-of-leavitts-politics-were-laid-years-ago |title=It may be her first campaign, but building blocks of Leavitt's politics were laid years ago |date=October 19, 2022 |website=New Hampshire Public Radio |access-date=April 19, 2025}}

Leavitt began attending Saint Anselm College in 2015,{{Cite web |last=Schweitzer |first=Sara |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/10/26/trump/0zMqF3cIfYrYGX5q1a3pTJ/story.html |title=US shouldn't challenge countries that require burkas, Trump says |date=October 26, 2015 |work=The Boston Globe |access-date=April 19, 2025}} where she received a scholarship to play softball{{Cite web |last=McDonald-Gibson |first=Charlotte |url=https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/karoline-leavitt-press-secretary-trump-kpf862rhq |title=Meet Trump's gun-loving 27-year-old press secretary |date=April 15, 2025 |work=The Times |access-date=April 21, 2025}} and majored in communications and minored in political science. She interned with NBC Sports Boston but later shifted towards political journalism. Leavitt became involved with the New Hampshire Institute of Politics her sophomore year; as the institute's ambassador, she interned for a United States senator and WMUR.{{Cite web |last=Costa |first=Jamie |url=https://www.eagletribune.com/news/new_hampshire/taking-flight-karoline-leavitts-rise-from-atkinson-to-washington/article_6650b59e-a824-11ef-b6c4-bbcacec66c02.html |title=Taking flight: Karoline Leavitt's rise from Atkinson to the West Wing |date=November 28, 2024 |work=The Eagle-Tribune |access-date=April 19, 2025}} By the end of her sophomore year, she had given up softball. Leavitt applied for an internship at Fox News,{{Cite news |last=Voght |first=Kara |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/03/24/karoline-leavitt-trump-press-secretary/ |title=In Karoline Leavitt's world, Trump's word is enough |date=March 24, 2025 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=April 19, 2025}} but later interned as a writer for the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence writing letters and notes on behalf of the president. Leavitt founded Saint Anselm's broadcasting club and wrote for its paper, the Saint Anselm Crier. She later described herself as the "token conservative" on campus, and her writings reflected a conservative viewpoint. Following the first inauguration of Donald Trump, Leavitt praised the "peaceful transfer of power" in the United States. In an opinion piece for the Crier in 2016, she stated that the media was "frankly crooked" and "unjust, unfair, and sometimes just plain old false". Leavitt graduated in 2019, becoming the first person in her immediate family to graduate from college.{{Cite web |last1=Megerian |first1=Chris |last2=Superville |first2=Chris |url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-leavitt-white-house-first-press-briefing-5ba5ff116e18c29b04c934a24a8983d1 |title=Karoline Leavitt, the youngest White House press secretary, makes her debut in the briefing room |date=January 28, 2025 |website=Associated Press |access-date=April 19, 2025}}

Career

=White House assistant press secretary (2019–2021)=

File:Karoline Leavitt addresses press outside Trump trial in New York 05-28-24.jpg]]

After graduating, Leavitt was offered a full-time job in the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence responding to letters sent to the president;{{Cite web |last=Wren |first=Adam |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/25/karoline-leavitt-election-trump-press-secretary-profile-00300552 |title=The Political Education of Karoline Leavitt |date=April 25, 2025 |work=Politico Magazine |access-date=April 25, 2025}} by June 2020, she was its associate director.{{Cite web |last1=Sherman |first1=Jake |last2=Palmer |first2=Anna |url=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2020/06/06/wh-eyes-july-negotiations-on-coronavirus-package-489448 |title=W.H. eyes July negotiations on coronavirus package |date=June 6, 2020 |author-link1=Jake Sherman (journalist) |author-link2=Anna Palmer |work=Politico |access-date=April 16, 2025}} That month, she was named as an assistant White House press secretary after a friend who worked in the Secret Service referred her to the press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany. She attended a nomination ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett in the White House Rose Garden, an event that later served as the beginning of the White House COVID-19 outbreak;{{Cite web |last1=Buchanan |first1=Larry |last2=Gamio |first2=Lazaro |last3=Leatherby |first3=Lauren |last4=Keefe |first4=John |last5=Koettl |first5=Christoph |last6=Schoenfeld Walker |first6=Amy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/02/us/politics/trump-contact-tracing-covid.html |title=Tracking the White House Coronavirus Outbreak |date=October 2, 2020 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 16, 2025}} Leavitt later tested positive for the virus.{{Cite web |last1=Crowley |first1=Michael |last2=Haberman |first2=Maggie |last3=Sullivan |first3=Eileen |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/world/the-white-house-outbreak-grows-as-kayleigh-mcenany-the-press-secretary-tests-positive-for-the-virus.html |title=The White House outbreak grows as Kayleigh McEnany, the press secretary, tests positive for the virus. |date=October 5, 2020 |author-link1=Michael Crowley (journalist) |author-link2=Maggie Haberman |author-link3=Eileen Sullivan |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 16, 2025}} In January 2021, weeks before Donald Trump left office, she became the communications director for New York representative Elise Stefanik.{{Cite web |last=Zanona |first=Melanie |url=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/01/03/as-pelosi-scrambles-for-her-job-mcconnell-loses-control-491263 |title=As Pelosi scrambles for her job, McConnell loses control |date=January 3, 2021 |work=Politico |access-date=April 16, 2025}}

=US congressional campaign in New Hampshire (2021–2022)=

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On July 19, 2021, Leavitt announced her intention to run in the United States House of Representatives election for New Hampshire's first congressional district as a Republican in an interview with WMUR. She stated that she was encouraged to run after president Joe Biden reversed many of the policies enacted by his predecessor, Donald Trump,{{Cite news |last=Sotomayor |first=Marianna |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/03/karoline-leavitt-republican-gen-z/ |title=Karoline Leavitt wants to be Gen Z's conservative voice in Congress |date=November 3, 2022 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=April 19, 2025}} and after Twitter erroneously suspended her account while she was working for Stefanik.{{Cite web |last=DiStaso |first=John |url=https://www.wmur.com/article/young-conservative-republican-karoline-leavitt-becomes-candidate-for-1st-district-us-house-seat/37070053 |title=Young conservative Republican Karoline Leavitt becomes candidate for 1st District U.S. House seat |date=July 19, 2021 |website=WMUR |author-link=John DiStaso |access-date=April 18, 2025}} Within three days, her campaign had raised {{USD|100000}}. Leavitt's campaign largely leveraged her experience within the Trump administration, as she sought to be viewed as the most pro-Trump candidate in the Republican primary.{{Cite web |last=Sexton |first=Adam |url=https://www.wmur.com/article/closeup-leavitt-aims-to-be-most-pro-trump-candidate-in-nh-01/37564014 |title=Leavitt aims to be most pro-Trump candidate in NH-01 |date=September 21, 2021 |website=WMUR |access-date=April 18, 2025}} She officially filed to run in June 2022.{{Cite web |last=Sexton |first=Adam |url=https://www.wmur.com/article/leavitt-files-new-hampshire-1st-district/40232896 |title=Leavitt files to run in New Hampshire's 1st District |date=June 8, 2022 |website=WMUR |access-date=April 18, 2025}} Polling in August placed Leavitt second behind Matt Mowers, the Republican nominee in the 2020 House of Representatives election.{{Cite web |last=Sexton |first=Adam |url=https://www.wmur.com/article/poll-republican-nh-congressional-districts/40901228 |title=Poll shows emerging GOP frontrunners in New Hampshire's 1st District, open race in 2nd |date=August 15, 2022 |website=WMUR |access-date=April 18, 2025}}

Leading up to the primary, Leavitt criticized Mowers as insufficiently pro-Trump,{{Cite web |last=Sexton |first=Adam |url=https://www.wmur.com/article/closeup-leavitt-builds-conservative-momentum-heading-into-primary/41009667 |title=Leavitt builds conservative momentum heading into primary |date=August 28, 2022 |website=WMUR |access-date=April 18, 2025}} including noting that he was a former advisor to former New Jersey governor Chris Christie.{{Cite web |last=Sexton |first=Adam |url=https://www.wmur.com/article/karoline-leavitt-new-hampshire-interview-82622/41004186 |title=Karoline Leavitt says she's the right choice in 1st District Republican primary |date=August 28, 2022 |website=WMUR |access-date=April 18, 2025}} The dichotomy in Leavitt and Mowers's strategies exposed a divide in the Republican Party; Leavitt received endorsements from Texas senator Ted Cruz and representatives Lauren Boebert, Jim Jordan, and Stefanik, in a demonstration of support from right-wing lawmakers.{{Cite web |last=Karni |first=Annie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/09/us/elections/new-hampshire-house-republicans-trump.html |title=In New Hampshire, a MAGA Rivalry Is Splitting House Republicans |date=September 9, 2022 |author-link=Annie Karni |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 18, 2025}} She concluded her campaign with a gun shoot at a fish and game club.{{Cite web |last=Karni |first=Annie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/us/politics/leavitt-new-hampshire-guns.html |title=Gun Shoot Will Conclude Former Trump Aide's House Primary Race |date=September 12, 2022 |author-link=Annie Karni |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 18, 2025}} Leavitt won the Republican primary in September, in an unexpected victory against Mowers.{{Cite web |last=Karni |first=Annie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/us/politics/karoline-leavitt-nh-house-gop-primary.html |title=Leavitt Upsets Mowers, Winning New Hampshire House G.O.P. Primary |date=September 13, 2022 |author-link=Annie Karni |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 18, 2025}} She was defeated by Democratic incumbent Chris Pappas.{{Cite web |last=Karni |first=Annie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/08/us/election-midterms/karoline-leavitt-nh-house |title=Pappas wins re-election in New Hampshire, holding off a Trump acolyte. |date=November 9, 2022 |author-link=Annie Karni |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 18, 2025}}

In 2022, Leavitt faced a Federal Election Commission complaint from End Citizens United alleging Leavitt's campaign and treasurer illegally accepted campaign donations over the legal limit and never repaid her donors. In January 2025, Leavitt disclosed in 17 amended campaign filings $326,370 in unpaid campaign debts she had failed to disclose for several years. Roughly $200,000 of the debt was composed of illicit campaign donations made in excess of campaign finance limits she never paid back, in violation of campaign finance laws.{{Cite news |last=Heddles |first=Calire |date=January 23, 2025 |title=Trump's White House Press Secretary Reveals Her Failed Campaign Spent $200K in Illicit Contributions |url=https://www.notus.org/whitehouse/trump-white-house-press-secretary-200k-illicit-contributions |access-date=January 25, 2024 |work=NOTUS}}

=Post-election work (2023–2025)=

After losing to Pappas, Leavitt began working for MAGA Inc., Trump's super PAC. She was featured in a video produced for Project 2025 training political appointees on how to counter the federal bureaucracy.{{Cite web |last1=Kroll |first1=Andy |last2=Surgey |first2=Nick |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election |title=Inside Project 2025's Secret Training Videos |date=August 10, 2024 |work=ProPublica |access-date=April 19, 2025}} Leavitt began working for Trump's 2024 presidential campaign in January 2024 as his national press secretary.{{Cite web |last=Foley |first=Emma |url=https://www.theconservateur.com/features/wonder-woman-karoline-leavitt-her-life-as-a-new-mom-amp-trumps-spokeswoman |title=Wonder Woman Karoline Leavitt: Her Life as a New Mom & Trump's Spokeswoman |date=October 23, 2024 |work=The Conservateur |access-date=April 19, 2025}} In December 2023, Leavitt became engaged to Nicholas Riccio, who struggled with poverty and homelessness before becoming a real estate developer and was 32 years her senior. They met each other at a restaurant during Leavitt's congressional campaign.{{Cite web |last=Khan |first=Melina |url=https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/19/karoline-leavitt-press-secretary-nh-husband-age-gap/82538174007/ |title=Karoline Leavitt, press secretary from NH, addresses 'atypical' 32-year age gap with husband |date=March 19, 2025 |work=The Portsmouth Herald |access-date=April 19, 2025}} Leavitt had a son with Riccio and named the baby after him in July 2024, days before Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate Trump. Chris LaCivita, the campaign's co-manager, offered her a month of parental leave; Leavitt requested ten days. She returned to work hours after the assassination attempt. She married Riccio in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

File:Karoline Leavitt at her first Press Conference.jpg

=White House Press Secretary (2025–present)=

On November 15, 2024, president-elect Donald Trump named Leavitt as his White House press secretary.{{Cite web |last=Gold |first=Michael |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/us/politics/karoline-leavitt-trump-white-house-press-secretary.html |title=Trump Names Karoline Leavitt as His White House Press Secretary |date=November 15, 2024 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 18, 2025}} She is the youngest White House press secretary in history.{{Cite web |last=Vock |first=Ido |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgep2lexy4o |title=Who is Karoline Leavitt, the youngest White House press secretary? |date=January 28, 2025 |website=BBC News |access-date=April 16, 2025}} She was given a smaller office in the West Wing in comparison to her predecessors, with the office reserved for press secretaries instead being occupied by Taylor Budowich, the deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel. Leavitt gave her first press conference on January 28, 2025, beginning the briefing by seeking to elevate non-traditional media.{{Cite web |last=McCreesh |first=Shawn |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/karoline-leavitt-debut.html |title=White House Press Secretary Makes Steely and Unflinching Debut |date=January 28, 2025 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 19, 2025}} During the press conference, she falsely stated that {{USD|50}} million in taxpayer dollars had been intended for use in funding condoms in the Gaza Strip.{{Cite web |last=Goldin |first=Melissa |url=https://apnews.com/article/gaza-condoms-fact-check-trump-50-million-26884cac6c7097d7316ca50ca4145a82 |title=No evidence that $50 million was designated by the US to buy condoms for Hamas |date=January 29, 2025 |website=Associated Press |access-date=April 19, 2025}}

File:Karoline Leavitt feeding baby while working (cropped).jpg

Her tenure marked a separation from precedent, particularly with the treatment of traditional media. In February, Leavitt announced that the White House would select who participated in the presidential press pool.{{Cite web |last=Grynbaum |first=Michael |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/business/media/trump-white-house-press.html |title=White House Moves to Pick the Pool Reporters Who Cover Trump |date=February 25, 2025 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 19, 2025}} That month, she stated that "new voices are going to be welcomed" alongside traditional media.{{Cite web |last1=Grynbaum |first1=Michael |last2=Robertson |first2=Katie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/business/media/trump-white-house-newswire-press.html |title=White House Ends a Regular Reporting Slot for Independent Newswires |date=April 15, 2025 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 19, 2025}} The following month, Axios reported that the White House sought to change the seating chart for reporters, potentially by appointing Leavitt as president of the White House Correspondents' Association.{{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Mike |url=https://www.axios.com/2025/03/30/white-house-press-briefing-seating-chart |title=White House to take charge of briefing-room seating chart |date=March 30, 2025 |author-link=Michael Allen (journalist) |work=Axios |access-date=April 19, 2025}} Leavitt was named as a defendant in Associated Press v. Budowich (2025), a lawsuit that began after Trump's staff moved to block the Associated Press from certain press events over the Gulf of Mexico–America naming dispute. According to the lawsuit, Leavitt told Zeke Miller (the chief White House correspondent for the Associated Press) that the organization would be barred from certain areas of the White House unless it referred to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America".{{Cite web |last=Robertson |first=Katie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/business/media/ap-white-house-ban-lawsuit.html |title=Associated Press Sues Trump Officials Over White House Ban |date=February 21, 2025 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 19, 2025}}

A May 2025 photograph of Leavitt feeding her son while working drew international attention.{{cite news |last1=Millward |first1=David |title=‘Super mom’ Karoline Leavitt pictured working with baby son on lap |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/05/09/super-mom-karoline-leavitt-pictured-working-baby-son-lap/ |access-date=11 May 2025 |work=The Telegraph |date=9 May 2025}}{{cite news |title=White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's 'power mom' moment goes viral: 'Truly admirable' |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitts-power-mom-moment-goes-viral-truly-admirable/articleshow/121035852.cms |access-date=11 May 2025 |work=The Times of India |date=11 May 2025}}{{cite news |last1=Banerjee |first1=Shrey |title=Power mom! Press Secy Karoline Leavitt seen working while feeding baby, netizens inspired |url=https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/power-mom-press-secy-karoline-leavitt-seen-working-while-feeding-baby-netizens-inspired/ar-AA1Er280 |access-date=11 May 2025 |work=Hindustan Times |via=MSN |date=May 8, 2025}} As the White House press secretary under President Trump in 2025, Leavitt facilitated media access during key diplomatic events. At the signing of the Congo-Rwanda peace agreement she introduced Angolan journalist Hariana Verás to the Oval Office gathering. Verás delivered a statement in front of cameras praising the Trump administration for achieving the peace deal, which prompted public praise from Trump, a moment that later went viral.[https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-flirts-with-female-reporter-wish-more-were-like-you Trump flirts with African reporter], The Daily Beast. Retrieved 5 July 2025

Political positions

Leavitt's campaign for New Hampshire's first congressional district focused on lowering taxes and lessening regulations to support small businesses, challenging critical race theory in public schools and "indoctrination", supporting school choice, increasing requirements on voting, funding police. She also supported Donald Trump's immigration policies and opposed vaccine mandates. Leavitt is a proponent of repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which provides service providers immunity from liability for third-party content generated by users.

Leavitt has falsely stated that Trump is the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election and that "irregularities and chaos" occurred as a result of deceiving precautions against the COVID-19 pandemic, but that Joe Biden was certified in the Electoral College vote count. She denounced the January 6 Capitol attack, though she does not believe that Trump incited the attack.{{Cite web |last=DiStaso |first=John |author-link=John DiStaso |date=July 24, 2021 |title=Leavitt says Trump won 2020 election but says she recognizes Biden is president |url=https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-primary-source-leavitt-says-trump-won-2020-election-but-biden-is-legitimately-president/37117521 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725064303/https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-primary-source-leavitt-says-trump-won-2020-election-but-biden-is-legitimately-president/37117521 |archive-date=2021-07-25 |access-date=April 18, 2025 |website=WMUR}} According to The Washington Post in March 2025, Leavitt privately believed that Trump lost the election. Tweets posted by Leavitt after the attack praised Vice President Mike Pence, who refused to certify the fake electors provided by Trump, and Eugene Goodman, a Capitol Police officer who led rioters away from the Senate chamber.{{Cite web |last=Kaczynski |first=Andrew |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/politics/karoline-leavitt-pence-january-6-2020-election/index.html |title=Trump press secretary pick removed post praising Pence on January 6, then ran for Congress as an election denier |date=December 2, 2024 |author-link=Andrew Kaczynski |website=CNN |access-date=April 25, 2025}}

Electoral history

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| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Karoline Leavitt

| votes = 25,888

| percentage = 34.6

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| candidate = Matt Mowers

| votes = 18,969

| percentage = 25.4

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| candidate = Gail Huff Brown

| votes = 12,996

| percentage = 17.4

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| candidate = Russell Prescott

| votes = 7,546

| percentage = 10.1

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| candidate = Tim Baxter

| votes = 6,897

| percentage = 9.2

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| candidate = Mary Maxwell

| votes = 671

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| candidate = Kevin Rondeau

| votes = 606

| percentage = 0.8

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| candidate = Gilead Towne

| votes = 466

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| candidate = Mark Kilbane

| votes = 356

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| candidate = Tom Alciere

| votes = 341

| percentage = 0.5

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{{Election box total no change

| votes = 74,736

| percentage = 100.0

}}

{{Election box begin no change |title=2022 United States House of Representatives election for New Hampshire's first congressional district{{Cite web |title=New Hampshire First Congressional District Election Results |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-new-hampshire-us-house-district-1.html |date=November 8, 2022 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 16, 2025}} |float=center}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = Chris Pappas

| votes = 167,391

| percentage = 54.1

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Karoline Leavitt

| votes = 142,229

| percentage = 45.9

}}