This was a close call. Let’s start with the runner-up … poor, poor, pitiful Chuck Morse. For a while, it looked like the political stars were going to align perfectly for Chuck.
Sun-King Sununu would run for the U.S. Senate and Chuck would step up and run for Governor, an office Chuck was far, far more suited for than the U.S. Senate.
But, alas, it was not to be. Sun-King decided it was too much work to fundraise and realized he was far too thin-skinned to take the hits … i.e., all those “abortion-ban” ads worked … and took the coward’s way out and instead ran for a fourth term as Governor.
But poor, poor, pitiful Chuck’s problems were just starting. Chuck … or more precisely, Chuck’s crack consultants … ran a campaign straight out of the 1980s. Hey … let’s have Chuck drive a snowplow and mumble platitudes about low taxes and limited government … it worked for George Bush in 1988! And for months while Bolduc maintained a commanding lead in the polls, Sun-King Sununu just sat on the sidelines, not campaigning for Chuck, not even endorsing Chuck. By the time Sun-King finally endorsed poor, poor, pitiful Chuck it was far too late to make a difference.
And so now Chuck’s political career is over. There is no way … NO WAY … he beats Chris Pappas in the 2024 gubernatorial election. So let’s wish poor, poor, pitiful Chuck happy-lobbying and move on to the winner of biggest local-loser.
2024 was the most favorable political macro-environment for the GOP since 2010, when they won an astonishing 298 seats. Yet the House GOP managed to lose … to LOSE … seats:
Indeed, they nearly succeeded in losing control of the House. Actually, given the number of RINOS the Democrats probably do have functional control of the House.
There can be no question, therefore, that the biggest political loser of 2022 is Jason Osborne, the Majority Leader. The man did the seemingly impossible. He led the House GOP to defeat in a year that political defeat for the GOP in a supposedly “purple” State seemed impossible.
