Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) said that former President Donald Trump’s “positivity” and energy is what is winning over voters, and that this will be a major factor in his electability this November.
Sununu, a previous critic of the former president, has softened his criticism against Trump since the other Republican candidates have dropped out of the 2024 primary race, making Trump the presumptive nominee. The New Hampshire governor was asked about a statement Trump made on visiting Pennsylvania, during which the former president said that “people need hope.”
“Just listen to that positivity,” Sununu said on Fox News’s One Nation with Brian Kilmeade. “When he does a rally, they’re chanting ‘USA, USA.’ These are patriots; these are people that love their country, they want hope, they want optimism about getting things turned around and bringing it back. Watch a Joe Biden rally; is anyone chanting ‘USA, USA?’ No, they’re just praying he gets through it without falling asleep. I mean, literally. So there’s no excitement on the other side, there’s no energy, and that’s what, kind of galvanizing — people can agree with you, but are you inspiring them to do something different? Are you inspiring them to be a better version of themselves?”
Sununu noted how Trump’s visit to multiple states is not necessarily a way for him to win these states but rather a means for him to show “that everyone matters.” He contended that not doing this was a mistake by then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016, noting how Trump’s visits to these states appear to mirror what he did in his first presidential campaign.
The New Hampshire governor had previously endorsed former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary, though Haley suspended her campaign after Trump won most of the Super Tuesday primary elections. Sununu reiterated his belief that while he thinks the Republican Party could have gotten a better candidate, the presidential election will ultimately come down to a choice between one candidate or the other, and that voters do not need to completely agree with one candidate to support them.
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Earlier this month, Sununu argued that Trump’s growth in support among polling data, despite a recent guilty verdict, is proof of “how bad Joe Biden is” as president.
Trump’s campaign is gearing up to launch eight new offices in Minnesota and 11 in Virginia, two states the Democrats won in the Electoral College in both 2016 and 2020. The latter state has seen Trump and Biden neck-and-neck in recent polls, and it would be the first time since 2004 that Republicans won the state if Trump succeeds in flipping it red this November.
