Kelly Ayotte is a former U.S. Senator who represented New Hampshire as a Republican. She is the 2024 Republican nominee for governor. Ayotte was the first woman to serve as her state's attorney general. Appointed to that position in 2004 by a Republican governor, she was twice reappointed by a Democratic governor.
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