- N.H. GOP Gov. Chris Sununu says he is grateful he did not get “conned” into working for the Senate.
- In an interview with Rolling Stone, he described the Senate as “the B workforce, in comparison with governors.”
- As a substitute of trying towards Washington, DC, Sununu selected to run for a fourth time period as governor.
Final yr, many Republicans in Washington, DC, thought Chris Sununu would assist them retake management of the Senate.
Sununu — who was first elected as New Hampshire’s governor in 2016 and reelected in 2018 and 2020 — was driving excessive in favorability amongst Granite State voters and would have been by far the hardest potential challenger to first-term Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan.
However Sununu handed on a Senate marketing campaign, and in making his announcement, the governor did not inform Minority Chief Mitch McConnell of Kentucky or Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee chair Rick Scott of Florida beforehand.
In a latest interview with Rolling Stone, Sununu had no qualms when requested if he had any regrets about skipping a Senate run.
“Oh expensive God no — are you kidding me?” the governor advised reporter Kara Voght whereas they hiked up a mountain in his native New Hampshire. “I thank my fortunate stars every single day that I did not get conned into that nonsense.”
Sununu then defined why he was no fan of the higher chamber.
“The US Senate is the B workforce, in comparison with governors. Are you able to actually inform me if we removed each US senator and changed them with 100 randomly chosen, employed American adults that it will worsen?” he advised the publication.
“It is only a bubble, and also you’re speaking to your personal echo chambers, convincing your self of this non-reality,” he added.
To Sununu, the “non-reality” was represented by GOP concepts just like the nationwide abortion ban floated by Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and the proposal from Sen. Rick Scott of Florida that was dismissed by many fellow members of his get together over its controversial tax proposals.
Concerning Graham, Sununu advised Rolling Stone that the senator was “so disconnected.”
And when it got here to Scott’s proposal, Sununu quipped: “The one with the tax hikes in it? That is not gonna fly.”
Sununu final month received renomination because the New Hampshire GOP gubernatorial nominee in his pursuit of a fourth time period, and Hassan — who might have been his Senate opponent — will face retired Military Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc.
Bolduc, who till just lately rejected former President Donald Trump’s loss within the 2020 election, is basically seen because the underdog within the Senate race.
Within the newest Emerson Faculty ballot, which surveyed 800 doubtless voters, Hassan was forward of Bolduc by 11 share factors (51%-40%).
