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Bush Hits Campaign Trail in N.H.

By Don Gonyea

Published January 29, 2004 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 21 years ago.

As his potential Democratic rivals move elsewhere on the campaign trail, President Bush visits New Hampshire with an eye to the November election. At an event focusing on the economy, Bush cites signs of an economic turnaround, which he credits to his tax cuts. But critics say weak job growth undermines the president's message. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

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Don Gonyea

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.

Bush Hits Campaign Trail in N.H.

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