New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu open to 2024 bid: ‘Folks want me to run’
Jack Birle
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Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) is not ruling out a 2024 run for president, saying he is having conversations about the possibility.
Sununu told Fox News on the day before his fourth gubernatorial inauguration that New Hampshire is his “first priority,” but he is examining a possible White House bid.
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“A lot of folks are coming to me. A lot of folks want me to run. It’s definitely conversations that we’re having,” he told the outlet.
He also shared his belief that the 2024 Republican primary appears to be wide open despite former President Donald Trump announcing his candidacy in November, insisting the party should “move on” from Trump.
“You have a former president who’s announced he’s going to run again, and he’s not the top contender necessarily. There’s lot of other folks who are going to get in the race. No one is backing out of the race. The party is not galvanizing all around him,” the GOP governor said.
Sununu also provided a contrast to another popular governor and potential 2024 candidate, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), applauding his pushback on “woke policy” but also saying that “going after private business is a whole different story.”
“To necessarily punish private businesses because they don’t agree with a policy or whatever it might be, those types of culture wars pushing their way into the private sector, that’s definitely not, I think, where we want to be as Americans,” Sununu said.
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DeSantis has made his fight against “woke ideology,” declaring that “Florida is where woke goes to die” in his gubernatorial inauguration address Tuesday.
The only declared candidate for the 2024 presidential election is Trump, but his campaign has struggled to gain steam since his initial announcement a week after the midterm elections. In this midterm cycle, many Trump-aligned candidates lost key races while Sununu won his reelection 57%-41.5% and DeSantis won his reelection 59.4%-40.0%.