Chris Sununu Launches Ad in the Early States

[RandySF]

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) “has launched a new digital ad stoking speculation of a potential 2024 presidential bid,” FWIW reports.

“On December 18th, Sununu’s campaign committee, Friends of Chris Sununu, launched a new video ad on Facebook and Instagram targeting voters in the early nominating states of Iowa and South Carolina.”




https://politicalwire.com/2022/12/20/chris-sununu-launches-ad-in-the-early-states/

[ColinC]

1. I think there is a fairly decent chance a moderate like Sununu wins the nom

[yorkster]

2. Both Sununu and Youngkin campaigned for Don Bolduc

for NH Senate race against Maggie Hassen. Bolduc is a far right Trumper. Hassan won. Also Sununu in 2016 started the wild story about busloads of Mass. voters coming up to NH to vote in the primary if the Mass. election was safe for Dems. Total bs of course. He's no moderate. But he and especially Youngkin make me nervous. Both are slick and in the latter's case a super fundamentalist Christian.

[ColinC]

3. I mean, compared to Trump and Desantis, he is a moderate.

Despite endorsing extremists, his personal policies don't seem to include climate change and COVID denial, aggressively trying to throw people in prison for voting, or human trafficking for political theater.

[yorkster]

5. Yes, you are right - they are moderate in comparison.

Trump and DeSantis are pretty much off the chart...

[ColinC]

6. Yeah but I also see them as almost. becoming the mainstream of the GOP

Which mean if Sununu won the nomination he would still likely need to compromise with extremists in order to retain support. So regardless, if he isn’t an extremist now, he will be if he’s the nomination. Frankly they all would be. But I remain optimistic at at least some regulating of crazy.

[yorkster]

7. Yeah - the fact that he campaigned for Bolduc the Mad

shows a willingness to go along, to say the very least. And Youngkin is downright spooky. Read a very good article about him by
Diana Butler Bass from Oct. of 2021 entitled "Wolf in Fleece Clothing, Glenn Youngkin and Religion" It was in her substack, but I think I saw it in the New Yorker or the Atlantic. Definitely worth the read.

[W_HAMILTON]

8. I don't.

After all this time, I still have no idea why people give Republicans the benefit of the doubt.

You think REPUBLICAN VOTERS are going to vote for this guy over Trump?

They won't.

[PatSeg]

9. I agree

I don't see today's republican party nominating anyone who even remotely appears moderate or reasonable. Even if Trump isn't the nominee, I think republican primary voters will look for someone to the very far right. I anticipate watching a bunch of republican candidates competing to be the most extreme - "It worked for Trump after all". They are incapable of being original or unique. They just recycle past campaign successes over and over again.

[Trenzalore]

10. The loser tag is starting to hang on Trump right now

It is a stink he is having trouble shaking.

You can commit many crimes with the base, losing isn't one of them.

[W_HAMILTON]

13. It doesn't matter. He has been a loser all along.

The hardcore rightwing Republican voters don't care if he loses, since they believe the big lie and that it's just Democrats """rigging""" elections in their favor. They like Trump because he is as close to them in terms of the hatred and bigotry and racism that he spews. Non-MAGA Republicans are the ones that care about winning and there aren't enough of them to outweigh the votes of the MAGA types that just care about spewing hatred of pretty much everyone that isn't a straight white male.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

4. I'd be shocked if a Chris Sununu or a Larry Hogan could win the nomination of today's

Republican party, but I'd prefer to live in a "reality" where that was a possibility.

[Takket]

11. unless drumpf and desantis pass away or are in prison, there is 0% chance of anyone else getting the

nomination.

[Pompoy]

12. The more candidates, the better

I want Trump to be the Republican nominee over DeSantis. The more candidates the better the chance Trump wins again.
This is the best chance for the Democrats to win in 2024. Affecting the other races down the ballot too.