Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) asserted that former President Donald Trump‘s popularity in polling despite having a felony conviction shows how “bad” President Joe Biden is.
However, Sununu also admitted that the conviction is less than ideal for a GOP presidential nominee during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning.
“I don’t want my nominee to be convicted of anything, of course,” Sununu said. “I think we had a lot a lot of better choices … but he is going to be the nominee of the party. People in America want change. They do. This is how bad Joe Biden is — the fact that regardless of what happens at the courthouse, it looks like Joe Biden is going to lose.”
Recent polling conducted by ABC News following Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts last week revealed that the number of people who believe he should drop out of the race was virtually unchanged compared to back in April 2023.
“The polls this morning still have him up 2 points,” Sununu said.
Sununu had endorsed former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley over Trump before Haley dropped out of the race in the spring.
Despite Trump’s legal troubles, his supporters have remained behind him, in part, because President Joe Biden has failed to boost the economy, secure the border, and address crime, according to Sununu.
“He doesn’t deliver results. Inflation is real. The border is real, you know. Public safety and the lack thereof in especially in a lot of these major cities, is real,” said Sununu.
With five months until Election Day in November, Sununu expects Trump’s legal problems to fade into the background as the party conventions and debates take center stage between now and then.
“We have two more debates. We have the conventions. We have a long way to go to November,” Sununu said. “This is going to be well into the rearview mirror.”
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Trump is the first president in national history to be convicted of a felony.
He was found guilty on all 34 counts related to business fraud for how he falsified records in connection to paying off porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
