New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu wants more Republican candidates to join the attack on Trump. He congratulates Chris Christie for having opted for the “nuclear” towards the ex-president and insists on the fact that “the Trump brand does not work”.
- Governor Sununu wants Republican candidates to be tougher on Donald Trump
- He praised former New Jersey Governor Christie for going “nuclear” against Trump and said other GOP candidates in 2024 must follow suit.
- Sununu, a Republican, has ruled out his own presidential bid this cycle
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (right) said Republicans need to understand ‘the Trump brand doesn’t work’ and urged more presidential candidates to launch the attack on the ex-president.
Sununu, who earlier this summer ruled out his own presidential bid, praised former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for his relentless attacks on ex-President Donald Trump. But he said his voice was not enough to silence the GOP primary frontrunner.
The Republican governor advised Republicans to attack Trump, but try not to make a personal criticism of him.
“I want to support Republican ideals, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to bend and break the rules, because when you do that, you’re setting a precedent for the other side,” Sununu told the NBC News Meet host. the Press, Chuck Todd.
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu wants Republican candidates to be tougher on Donald Trump while insisting ‘the Trump brand really doesn’t work’
He praised former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, once a close Trump ally, for going “nuclear” against the ex-president and said other GOP candidates in 2024 must follow suit.
“As for the other presidential candidates, I think they have to be a little tougher on Trump,” he added during the Sunday morning interview. “You know, Chris Christie gets really nuclear about him, and God bless Chris, he does a great job with that, he exposes a lot of that, which I think is important.”
Sununu continued, “But I think what we saw on that debate stage last week, I think there was still a little too much kowtow in front of him.”
“I mean, Vivek (Ramaswamy) was saying he was one of the greatest presidents, but he was going to be better than him,” the governor said. “So it was a weird dynamic, of course. But there is still plenty of time here.
Both Sununu and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp have been vocal in their criticism of Trump and have faced little, if any, political retaliation, as others do for breaking with the government. ‘former president.
Sununu told Todd that it’s important to realize that always fighting for Trump, especially when you realize he’s wrong, doesn’t end up being beneficial in the long run.
“You don’t have to make it personal,” he assured presidential candidates who also want to target the ex-president. “When you run for president against the former president, it’s a very strange dynamic, of course.”
He later added that “the Trump brand just doesn’t work,” especially at the grassroots level.
Sununu wanted to see more candidates on stage in the first presidential debate attacking Trump
New Hampshire is the first state to hold a primary election in the nation, but it’s also divided on politics. While Sununu, the governor, is Republican, the senators and two U.S. representatives from the tiny New England state are Democrats, and the state voted blue in 2016 and 2020.
Sununu said local leaders faced retaliation for supporting Trump.
“I’ve had Republican school board members lose their seats because they felt like they had to constantly answer to be a Trump Republican and all that,” he told Todd. “It’s a negative mark, it puts a lot of hesitation.”
“So it’s not just federal seats, but also governorships, school boards, congressional seats, all of them,” Sununu added.
