The Sununu family business is politics, so Chris Sununu running for office was never a surprise. Nor is his being a world-class RINO peddling the Never-Trump narrative. It’s a family tradition. But if they want Trump to lose the Primary, the odds of that improve significantly if Chris endorses him.
I know that Chris has been going on cable news for (it seems like) years now, bashing President Trump. Give him a microphone, and the odds are that he has something bad to say about the guy. Mostly Never-Trumper narratives suggest he, like his Trump-hating brethren, is either blind, misinformed or a serial fibber.
On Tuesday morning, Chris Sununu was on a local radio station saying Donald Trump has no ability to get things done. Really?
Energy independence, border security, blooming peace in the middle east, and a booming economy. He brought manufacturing jobs back to America and put China and Iran on notice. He got tax cuts passed for regular folks, criminal justice reform, health care and prescription drug reform, VA reform, a record number of Circuit Court nominees approved (judicial reform), signed 12-week parental/family leave into law, made Hemp and CBD legal in the US, got NATO to pay for more of its defense spending, asked an openly gay US ambassador to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality, and created record numbers of jobs and wages for kids, teens, women, and people of color. That’s the shortlist.
Here is a longer list of the hundreds of things Trump got done, including a rare exception to the rule in politics. Donald Trump tried to do or did everything he campaigned on. He did that too. Do you know what Trump didn’t do? He didn’t start any new wars. Is that what Sununu means?
Back to my point. That if they want Trump to lose, Sununu needs to endorse him. Sununu endorsed Chuck Morse, and he lost, then supported the guy who beat Morse – Don Bolduc – who lost.
Sununu endorsed Geroge Hansel in the NH CD-2 primary, and he lost.
Sununu endorsed Matt Mowers, he lost.
Chris Sununu even endorsed people we thought would be good, like Rich Girard and Victoria Sullivan. They both lost. So you see my point? I’m sure he’s gotten a few right, but given the odds, especially in state and national races, if Chris Sununu truly believes Donald Trump can’t win and will not get anything done, he needs to endorse him in the Republican Primary.
Trump has a 45-point primary lead over DeSantis, and no one else comes close (Sununu is at 0.7%).
And since Governor appears to be his political ceiling, and he hasn’t had to run against anyone for the job in the past three elections (he barely one his first Primary, if you recall), I don’t see what else he had to offer the Never-Trump wing of the GOP.