MANCHESTER, N.H. —

There will now officially be a competitive Democratic primary for Senate in New Hampshire, after Dr. Karishma Manzur, a scientist from Exeter, announced her bid for the seat.

"I loved my career as a scientist, as a researcher, but over time, I realized many of the treatments that I'm working on, it will never be affordable to many Americans because they don't have health insurance or they cannot afford the copay," Manzur told News 9 in a one-on-one interview Wednesday ahead of her campaign launch. "I realized that the problems actually were not unsolvable. They are all related to big money in politics."

Mazur holds a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology and has researched diseases like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. She characterizes herself as an outsider on the insi

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