 CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Former Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Scott Brown won New Hampshire's Republican U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday, moving forward in his attempt to get back to Washington from another state. But Tuesday night Scott Brown became the Republican nominee for Senate in New Hampshire and will now face the incumbent, Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, in what has already become a competitive and bitterly contested race that has drawn millions of dollars in attack ads from outside groups. Brown's two main primary challengers, former U.S. Sen. Bob Smith and former state Sen. Jim Rubens, cast him as a liberal flip-flopper, arguing that he's shown more consistency voting with Democrats than he has sticking to his convictions. Aides to both say they don’t expect that messaging to substantially change in the general election race. Senator from Massachusetts, waves to supporters after winning New Hampshire's Republican U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday Sept. 9, 2014 in Concord, N.H. Brown will face incumbent... (Associated Press) 
 
 Brown faced nine primary opponents, though only two mounted serious campaigns. With 75.7 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, Brown led with 49.9 percent of the vote, according to the Associated Press. “No matter where he lives, Scott Brown will not be there for working people,” said Shaheen, ticking off a list of Brown’s financial ties to Wall Street and business alliances she says have hurt the workforce here by exporting American jobs to China. And because it’s been such a cosmopolitan state and they have national news media that hasn’t been a problem. That win in a Democratic stronghold going back decades vaulted Brown to the top of the GOP's list of rising stars, but he was soundly defeated by Democrat Elizabeth Warren in 2012. “Nobody in the Senate is more invested in the policies and failures of President Obama than Senator Shaheen,” he said, standing in front of a large image of an American flag. Shields was last elected in 1879 and Willey’s last term ended in 1871. “There’s nothing [Brown] can point to and say: ‘I’ve done that for New Hampshire,’ ” said campaign spokesman Harrell Kirstein . “We can.” 
 
 Brown, for his part, has spoken about what he could do for the state and how it would be to New Hampshire’s benefit to have “an independent voice” who doesn’t vote with the president so frequently. At those forums, and others, he often speaks about federal issues — such as Obama’s health care overhaul — while connecting them to their impact on the state. While analysts said the specifics of the campaign will matter, the New Hampshire race is part of a furious nationwide battle for control of the US Senate, where the GOP must pick up a net of six seats in this year’s midterm elections to win the chamber. Still, he said, if the national environment is extremely good for the GOP, Brown “can win, but he’s going need a strong wind at his back.” 
 
 Polling has found the race to be competitive. Shaheen wasted no time contrasting Brown's recent arrival in the state to her decades of public service as a state senator, the first woman elected governor of New Hampshire and the state's first female U.S. senator.
– Scott Brown is on the road to becoming the first person since the 19th century to have represented more than one state in the Senate. The former Massachusetts senator comfortably won the Republican primary in New Hampshire yesterday, the AP reports, and will face incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen this fall in what the Boston Globe reports has already become "a competitive and bitterly contested race" that has drawn plenty of money from outside the state. Brown "may have changed his address, but he hasn’t changed his stripes," Shaheen told a rally yesterday, slamming Brown's ties to big business. "New Hampshire is not for sale, and New Hampshire is not Scott Brown’s consolation prize," she said. Shaheen has focused on her achievements for New Hampshire, but Brown has been doing his best to tie her to President Obama, the AP reports. "Just because she's been throwing her vote away in the Senate does not mean you have to throw your vote away in November," Brown says. "If we're ever going to hold this president accountable, we have to hold this senator accountable." Brown was defeated by Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts in 2012, and if he prevails this fall, he will be just the third person to represent more than one state in the Senate, Talking Points Memo reported when he announced the New Hampshire run earlier this year. Waitman Thomas Willey, a Unionist and then a Republican, served both Virginia and West Virginia in the 1860s, while Democrat James Shields represented Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri in a long political career interrupted by Civil War service.