Top Biden adviser's wife on verge of launching run for House seat in key swing state

A erstwhile Biden medication elder authoritative and the woman of the president's nationalist information advisor is connected the verge of launching a bid for Congress successful the cardinal northeastern battleground authorities wherever she was calved and raised.

Maggie Goodlander, the woman of nationalist information advisor Jake Sullivan and a erstwhile apical lawyer successful Biden's medication who served arsenic a lawman adjunct lawyer wide astatine the Justice Department, is apt to denote her candidacy for the unfastened spot successful New Hampshire's Second Congressional District, Democratic sources corroborate to Fox News.

The announcement, which could travel arsenic aboriginal arsenic this week, would elevate an already high-profile contention to win longtime Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster successful a blue-leaning but competitory territory successful a cardinal wide predetermination battleground state.

Goodlander would articulation a burgeoning tract of candidates aiming to win the six-term Kuster, who announced successful precocious March that she would discontinue from Congress alternatively than question re-election.

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Maggie Goodlander, erstwhile lawman adjunct U.S. lawyer general, astatine the Department of Justice successful Washington, D.C., connected Monday, March 27, 2023. (Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Maggie is thankful for the encouragement she’s received from Granite Staters and volition beryllium making a determination successful the coming days," Scott Merrick, a Democratic operative and seasoned of aggregate Democratic campaigns successful New Hampshire, told Fox News.

Goodlander, if she runs arsenic expected, could look plentifulness of scrutiny implicit Biden medication polices – some home and planetary – implicit her ties to Republicans and implicit her residency. Goodlander's legislature run would besides apt gully nationalist attraction to the New Hampshire race and perchance garner high-profile endorsements.

Goodland joined Sullivan astir 9 years agone erstwhile helium was moving arsenic a overseas argumentation advisor to erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her 2016 statesmanlike campaign. The couple's wedding, attended by salient governmental figures including Clinton, now-Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, was a snapshot of the couple's agelong past successful Democratic politics.

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Sullivan worked arsenic Klobuchar's main counsel earlier serving arsenic an advisor connected Clinton's 2008 Democratic statesmanlike superior run and aboriginal connected erstwhile President Obama's wide predetermination statesmanlike campaign.

He served arsenic lawman main of unit to Clinton during her years arsenic caput of authorities successful the Obama administration. After Clinton departed the administration, Sullivan became then-Vice President Joe Biden's apical information aide. 

White House nationalist information advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during a property briefing astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Sullivan past served arsenic a apical advisor connected Clinton's 2016 statesmanlike campaign. Four years later, helium was 1 of Biden's archetypal appointments pursuing the 2020 statesmanlike election.

While not arsenic good known nationally arsenic her high-profile husband, Goodlander hails from a salient New Hampshire family.

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Her grandfather, Sam Tamposi, was a large subordinate successful authorities Republican politics. Additionally, her mother, Betty Tamposi, ran for the House successful 1988 successful the Second Congressional District but mislaid successful the GOP primary.

In immoderate ways, Goodlander's communicative mirrors that of Kuster, the pistillate she is trying to win successful Congress. Kuster's parents were salient Republicans successful New Hampshire, but she ran arsenic a Democrat.

Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster of New Hampshire (NH-02) marches successful an Independence Day parade connected July 4, 2022 successful Amherst, New Hampshire. (Fox News - Paul Steinhauser)

Goodlander, a Yale University and Yale Law School graduate, served arsenic an quality serviceman successful the U.S. Navy Reserve and worked arsenic an advisor to precocious Sens. Joe Lieberman and John McCain connected the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. 

She besides served arsenic a instrumentality clerk to Attorney General Merrick Garland during his tenure arsenic main justice connected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

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Goodlander would articulation a Democratic superior tract that includes Colin Van Ostern, who worked arsenic Kuster's run manager successful 2010 successful her archetypal tally for Congress, and who aboriginal won 2 presumption arsenic a New Hampshire enforcement councilor earlier winning the 2016 Democratic gubernatorial nomination. 

Van Ostern announced his bid the time aft Kuster's status announcement and was endorsed by the incumbent a mates of weeks later.

While Van Ostern has landed a bully woody of Granite State support, Goodlander's introduction into the contention could perchance displacement the landscape.

"I mean, it's beauteous uncommon to person idiosyncratic of this caliber who is 37, with beauteous unimpeachable roots successful the district, a immense nationalist network, and a demonstrable bipartisan record, who isn't already an elected official. It would beryllium a truly breathtaking dynamic successful 1 of the nation’s apical legislature races," a seasoned Democratic operative successful New Hampshire who asked to stay anonymous to talk much freely told Fox News.

State Sen. Becky Whitley, a progressive Democrat, is besides moving to win Kuster.

A fistful of Republicans, including 2022 Senate campaigner Vikram Mansharamani and Lily Tang Williams, who is making her 2nd consecutive bid for the legislature nomination, are running.

Goodlander and Sullivan walk overmuch of their clip successful the nation’s superior owed to work, but they ain a location successful Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

While the larboard metropolis connected the New Hampshire Seacoast is located successful the state’s First Congressional District, the geography would not forestall Goodlander from moving successful the Second District. The U.S. Constitution lone mandates that a campaigner indispensable reside successful the authorities successful which they are moving in, not the circumstantial legislature district.

The astir caller high-profile illustration of a Democratic legislature campaigner successful New Hampshire campaigning successful a territory extracurricular their residence was six years ago, erstwhile Levi Sanders – the lad of Sen. Bernie Sanders – ran successful the First District adjacent though helium lived successful the Second District.

While Goodland grew up successful the Second District, records reviewed by Fox News Digital amusement that the past clip Goodlander voted determination was by absentee ballot for the 2008 statesmanlike superior and wide elections.

Goodlander registered successful New Hampshire's First District successful 2016.

Fox News' Aubrie Spady contributed to this report.

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