With just over seven months to go until the November election, New Hampshire Democrats are expanding their operations in the key northeastern battleground state as they aim to reelect President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and boost Democrats running in races down the ballot.

The New Hampshire Democratic Party on Friday announced the launch of their 2024 coordinated campaign, which includes office openings across the Granite State. The move by the Democrats is aimed at mobilizing supporters and enhancing grassroots outreach and get-out-the-vote efforts.

The state party says it will open satellite campaign offices this weekend in Laconia and Exeter, following next week with openings in Concord and Lebanon. The state party, which is already operating a field office in Manchester, advertises that more offices will be added in the coming weeks and months.

“Our unified coordinated campaign will work with communities across New Hampshire to not only reelect President Biden, but to also reelect Representatives Kuster and Pappas, flip the corner office, turn the State House blue,” longtime New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Ray Buckley said, as he highlighted the mission and goals of the new joint-venture between the state and national parties and the president’s reelection campaign.

Democrats say the coordinated campaign will also prioritize what they call a “robust voter protection program.” They aim to make sure that “every eligible voter is able to cast their ballot” to protect against what they charge are “continued voter suppression efforts by extremists in the Republican legislature.”

Jack Tormoehlen, a New Hampshire state party veteran who recently served as data director, is being tapped as the coordinated campaign’s director.

“From lowering costs for New Hampshire families to protecting our fundamental freedoms, our coordinated campaign stands ready to support Granite Staters in electing strong Democratic leadership from Pelham to Pittsburg,” he pledged in a statement.

Tormoehlen will be joined by Beth Cunniff, who will steer the organizing and voter contact effort, and Nick Cosmo, who will oversee the voter protection efforts. More hires are expected in the near future.

Coordinated campaigns in New Hampshire are launched every two years, either presidential election or midterm election cycles.

The coordinated campaign was steered four years ago by Liz Wester, a veteran of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in New Hampshire and the 2020 state director for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s White House bid.

The New Hampshire GOP, the Republican National Committee, and former President Donald Trump’s campaign in the Granite State are expected to launch a similar coordinated campaign, with a launch likely in the coming weeks.

The announcement by the Democrats of their new coordinated campaign came a week and a half after the president returned to New Hampshire for the first time in nearly two years.

Biden steered clear of the state after a move early last year by the Democratic National Committee - following the president’s lead - to bump New Hampshire from its traditional role as the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state.

New Hampshire, adhering to a state law that mandates its presidential primary goes first, did just that - which meant the state’s Jan. 23 nominating contest was unsanctioned on the Democratic side. Biden kept his name off the ballot and avoided campaigning in the state, but thanks to a well-organized write-in effort by New Hampshire’s Democratic establishment leaders, the president easily won the primary over his long-shot challengers.

Biden didn’t mention the Democratic primary controversy during his official stop last week in Goffstown, but did minutes later as he toured his campaign’s New Hampshire field office, which is located in Manchester.

“It stunned me, the write-in campaign you all did,” Biden told supporters, according to a pool report. “I was stunned, and I was really pleased.

“I was very careful not to be here,” Biden said to laughter.

The campaign field office stop appeared to be part of the president’s political mission of patching up hard feelings from the primary season. A Democratic source attending the field office event said the president spent plenty of time working the room as he talked individually to supporters.

Lewandowski to chair NH delegate to GOP convention

Just as he did in 2016, New Hampshire resident and longtime Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski will chair the New Hampshire delegation to the GOP’s presidential nominating convention, which will be held in July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Lewandowski served as Trump’s national campaign manager during his first White House, from the launch in the spring of 2015 through the primary victories a year later. While he was replaced as campaign manager ahead of the 2016 convention, the controversial Lewandowski remained close with Trump and led the Granite State delegation to the convention in Cleveland that summer.

Four years later, as the then-president unsuccessfully ran for a second term in the White House, Lewandowski announced the unanimous support of the New Hampshire delegation at an abbreviated convention in Charlotte, North Carolina amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lewandowski was elected chair of the delegation to the 2024 convention by the 22 Trump delegates and 9 delegates supporting former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who was Trump’s final rival before she dropped out of the race earlier this month. The delegates met last week to vote in a gathering organized by New Hampshire GOP chair Chris Ager.

Trump delegates were named to the Credentials (John Coughlin and Crissy Kantor), Permanent Organization (Lou Gargiulo and Di Lothrop), Platform (Stephen Stepanek and Lilli Walsh), and Rules (Bill O’Brien and Ellen Suprunowicz) committees.