Chris Sununu argues with Harris Faulkner over Trump’s Iowa appearance
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Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) got into a bit of a feud with Fox News host Harris Faulkner on Monday when asked about former President Donald Trump’s performance at the Lincoln Day Dinner.
The brief argument between Sununu and Faulkner began when he said that Trump had nothing to say “about the future of America.” Faulkner contested Sununu’s comment when he finished talking, saying she did not have that impression after watching Trump’s speech. Sununu then asked her what he said regarding the future while Faulkner was still talking.
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“Let me finish my sentence,” said Faulkner. “He was lower key, and I want to ask strategy for just a second. Is there strategy in being that and just letting everybody else kind of do what they do? He doesn’t need to reintroduce himself.”
Sununu then claimed that Trump’s speech, similar to his recent ones, was “all about his legal ones,” arguing that talking about legal woes would not win him the vote. The governor added that Trump did not discuss “fiscal responsibility” or “draining the swamp.”
Faulkner interjected by asking Sununu if he thought that people “have a question about that from him.” Sununu responded by saying yes “because he didn’t do it.”
Chris Sununu on Fox News (7/31/2023)
Sununu is one of Trump’s biggest critics in the Republican Party. On Sunday, the New Hampshire governor said he believes Trump will lose to President Joe Biden again if Trump is the 2024 Republican nominee. Trump responded on Truth Social by calling Sununu a “RINO,” an acronym for “Republican in name only,” and claimed that New Hampshire residents “have gotten wise to Chris Sununu, and they no longer like or respect him.”
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In the first New York Times/Siena College poll of the 2024 campaign, Trump boasted the support of 54% of GOP primary voters. Meanwhile, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), considered by many to be the biggest threat to Trump in the primary, only amassed 17%, and every other candidate polled at 3% or less among voters.
In a matchup between just Trump and DeSantis, 62% preferred the former president. DeSantis was supported by 31%.