Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) said Sunday that former President Donald Trump announcing a 2024 run for president before Christmas would be a “terrible idea.”
The centrist governor said he expects that people will want a break from election talk after Tuesday’s midterm elections when asked about reports Trump may announce a run in the coming weeks.
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“First off, announcing you’re going to run for office between an election and Christmas is a terrible idea. Because one thing I can say for America is we’re all going to be really happy one way or the other that the election is over come Tuesday, and everyone’s going to want to take a breath and reengage with their families and deal with some really serious issues. And then politics, you know, really gets back into the mix of things in early ’23,” Sununu told Margaret Brennan on CBS News’s Face the Nation.
Sununu also stated that Trump running for the GOP nomination would not deter a lot of candidates from running for the 2024 election.
“Whether President Trump decides to run or not, it’s not going to make any difference in terms of the fact that you’re still going to see eight to maybe even a dozen other candidates jump in the race. He doesn’t keep anybody out of the race. … So it’s still going to be, I think, on both sides. I think — I don’t think President Biden is going to run again. I think on both sides of the aisle are going to have maybe a dozen individuals over the next six to nine months come out and decide to run,” Sununu said.
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Sununu is running for reelection on Tuesday and is widely expected to win another term as head of the Granite State. He leads Democratic challenger Tom Sherman by 16.7 percentage points, per the Real Clear Politics polling average, in a race that RCP has rated as “safe GOP.”
