So NH-NeverTrump Journal has a new “analysis” of the 2022 election that … SURPRISE, SURPRISE … comes to the same conclusion as his prior analyses, that the NHGOP performed miserably because the stupid voters picked “bad candidates” in the primaries. NH-NeverTrump Journal’s proof is that “Republican” Chris Sununu won, while the “bad candidates” lost:
Granite State Republicans still in denial about their “candidate quality” problem have used this factually incorrect conventional wisdom about young voters and Democratic turnout to push back against the argument that their candidates lost because they picked weak candidates. While the partisan breakdown of who showed up in the Granite State is not yet known, we do know that 352,000 of the 627,000 Granite Staters who voted were willing to cast a ballot for Gov. Chris Sununu. So why not vote for the other Republicans on the ticket, too?
Instead, Sununu outperformed the rest of the field by about 75,000 votes. Part of that was the power of incumbency and name ID — but not all of it. Some of those 75,000 Sununu voters knew plenty about Bolduc and Leavitt. And they voted against them. Using data from the Fox News exit polls, Aliza Astrow with the group Third Way projects that Bolduc not only lost 50 percent of independent voters to Sen. Maggie Hassan but also seven percent of his own Republican voters, too.
By comparison, Sununu lost just two percent of GOP voters in his race, and he picked up plenty of Democrats.
Sun-King Sununu picked up Democrat votes because he is more Democrat than Republican. He supports abortion up until birth (and for all we know post-birth); he praised the local Black Lives Matter chapter at a time when BLM and Antifa were burning and looting cities throughout America; he watered down a bill that would have banned Critical Race Theory; he believes it is “discrimination” to ban biological males from competing as girls in school sports. Etc., etc., etc..
So why did Sun-King (supposedly) only lose two percent of GOP voters, if he is more Democrat the Republican? Because the ever-shrinking portion of actual Republicans in New Hampshire support him because he SUPPOSEDLY is the lesser of two evils.