\t\t\t\t\t\tMANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Gov. Kelly Ayotte made a splash in the Big Apple earlier this week with a mobile billboard trying to recruit businesses in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory.<\/p>\n
Ayotte’s quick public relations strike against the New York City mayor-elect got a lot of people talking earlier this week, but political analysts said there could be a deeper dimension to the effort.<\/p>\n
Some called the mobile billboards “genius,” while others found it “gimmicky.” But beyond making a point about New Hampshire’s business-friendly tax structure, political analyst Scott Spradling said Ayotte also put herself back into a more national spotlight in a way she has previously avoided.<\/p>\n
“Whether she intended to or not, this puts the Kelly Ayotte name and brand into a new conversation,” Spradling said.<\/p>\n
>> Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go: Apple<\/a> | Google Play<\/a> <<<\/p>\n Ayotte is expected to seek re-election in 2026, and so far, she does not have a high-profile Democratic challenger.<\/p>\n If she wins a second term, that will further build on a political r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that already includes six years in the U.S. Senate and a stint shepherding the Supreme Court nomination of Neil Gorsuch during the first Trump administration.<\/p>\n Regarding the billboard, analysts say it’s worth noting that while the target was Mayor-elect Mamdani, it was the governor’s face being displayed in Midtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n “If she is viewed inside the Beltway as someone who can work behind the scenes, and now she’s building a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 outside of the Beltway as a governor who seems pretty popular in New Hampshire given she’s a freshman governor, that’s a pretty strong resume for a next step that could bring her right back into the national spotlight,” Spradling said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 Gov. Kelly Ayotte made a splash in the Big Apple earlier this week with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19611,15164,19618,19616,18582,19621,1092,19617,19614,19613,8380,9,24,19612,55,54,56,19615,19620,19619,13274,82],"class_list":["post-32568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-ayotte","tag-big-apple","tag-business-friendly-tax-structure","tag-gov-kelly-ayotte","tag-kelly-ayotte","tag-lot","tag-mayor","tag-mayoral-victory","tag-mobile-billboard","tag-national-spotlight","tag-new-hampshire","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-billboard","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-political-analyst","tag-quick-public-relation","tag-wake","tag-week","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}