Scott Brown, the former U.S. senator from Massachusetts and former Ambassador to New Zealand, is taking another crack at running for the Senate in New Hampshire.
Brown announced his entrance into the 2026 race to fill the seat left vacant by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s retirement through a video release early Wednesday morning. It was widely expected, with Brown being rumored for months to be mulling a Senate run. It’s also the latest turn in a political career that’s been marked by both high profile jobs and political reversals.
“My life has been the American story, but I worry about what America is going to look like in the future for my four grandchildren, and all of yours,” Brown said in his announcement video. And like a lot of you, I’m worried about where this country is headed.”
Brown, who now lives in Rye, was a relatively obscure Massachusetts state senator and longtime member of the National Guard when he rode the political energy of the Tea Party movement to win a U.S. Senate race in an upset in 2010. In that race, Brown upset then-Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
