New Hampshire’s retiring governor, Chris Sununu, hasn’t been on machine media much since his gal pal, Darling Nikki Haley, lost all hope of challenging Donald Trump to the Republican nomination. Water under the bridge and with it his face on the weekend political puppet shows. No loss, given that the bulk of such work is less than flattering. But His Excellency once again found himself before the cameras, not so much defending Donald Trump but making Martha Raddatz look petty.
Raddatz was just another court stenographer for the blob (to most of us) until JD Vance made her a household name (center-right). After Raddatz tried to diminish the significance of foreign gangs seizing US property, the question wasn’t “some people did something” but “do you hear what you are saying?”
“Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris’ open border?”
When Sununu put his thumb of a head in front of a national audience on Sunday, and Raddatz asked him about Tump and the economy (like, Tariffs on China), the Damn Emperor had a damn good answer.
“When it comes to the voter, where this election is going, no voter is voting on tariffs,” Sununu said. “It’s a very complex thing. When it comes to the economy, what that really means is, can I afford to bring my kids to McDonald’s? Can I afford to pay the rent?”
“The economy really translates to a cost of living issue when it comes to people at the ballot box,” he said. “Now, if and when he becomes president, they’ll have to sort out the tariff issue. Is he using it for leverage against China, to ratchet things down, to force better negotiations? That will all play itself out, but the average voter doesn’t look at that stuff right now.”
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“And the ‘Bidenomics’ thing, I think, is really coming back to haunt Biden and Kamala Harris, especially,” he said. “When you’re told by the government, ‘You’re fine. Bidenomics is working for you’, it’s the worst form of gaslighting.”
“It’s so condescending, because not all the ads or all the messages from a politician are going to tell you that your lived experience isn’t real,” he continued. “And for the average American, their lived experience is credit card bills and energy bills and things that they can’t afford. That’s the economic message that people are taking to the ballot box.”
It’s not bad work for a Sunday morning.
