Posted on 05/14/2019 6:08:39 PM PDT by SMGFan
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) on Tuesday announced his intention to seek a third term as the state's top official, quashing speculation that he would try to unseat Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who's also up for reelection in 2020.
"Tonight Im announcing my intention to run for Governor in 2020," Sununu said in a Medium post.
"I truly appreciate the enthusiastic encouragement from so many that I run for the United States Senate," he added. "We all know that I would defeat Jeanne Shaheen, but others can too. Never before has a sitting twelve year Senator from New Hampshire accomplished so little."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Guess it is possible for Trump & Sununu to take NH in 2020 and Shaheen be reelected.
Still mad at the Sununus for inflicting David Souter on us.
Maybe the old man. He takes no prisoners. The young one(s) are girlie-men.
If the loser brother runs again perhaps 2 Sununus will help each other. If He’s been Gov. since 2016 his voter ID support can only help us.
Sununu has been very good here in NH the past 3+ years.
He is the only ‘R’ left in the state.
The Dems control everything else.
Unfortunately the old Live Free or Die state has scummed to the onslaught of Marxists in the past few election cycles. Too many libs have moved into the state so the Dem Reps and Senators will be fixtures for many many years to come.
Sununu will be luck to win another term. The voter fraud here is out of control. The college kids and people from Mass are bused around from town to town during election time and all they have to do is say the plan to move to the state and they get to vote thanks to Same Day Registration. No one is ever prosecuted for election fraud and everyone knows it goes on.
Gov. Sununu needs to run for Senator. It is ludicrous NH has an all-Stalinist Congressional delegation. He was almost guaranteed to take out Shaheen.
I read “Associate Attorney General Anne Edwards” found no evidence such evidence , buses were rented out of state but riders were NH residents.
That seems end of the issue.
So , Trump is willing to lose again in NH by a small number?
I’m surprised to hear this. All indications pointed to him running for that Senate seat.
His poll numbers must have come up short for the Senate seat.
Well, my friend who is a security guard at UNH can tell you different as he has seen with his own eyes loads of UNH kids going out to vote.
Also another acquaintance of mine who lives in the Durham area of NH and was a poll watcher at Oyster River High School near Durham could attest to seeing large numbers of college age kids lined up at the “Same Day Registration” table signing up to vote and yet nothing was done or could be done about it.
I don’t know what Anne Edwards was looking at, but I know people who would contradict her conclusions.
Third terms never work. Incumbents almost always lose. Eight years is enough.
NH’s governor only has 2-year terms, so he’s only coming up on four years in office. Unfortunately, the moonbats in the legislature have veto-proof majorities, so it might not matter.
Thanks for the info.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Sununu, singular, as in John. John Jr. and Chris had nothing to do with it.
Democrats do NOT have veto proof majorities in either House of the NH Legislature. They have about 58% of each House (14-10 Senate, 266-167 House). Veto override takes 2/3s in NH.
https://ballotpedia.org/Veto_overrides_in_state_legislatures
That said I believe it’s still one of the weakest Governor positions.
DJ: “He was almost guaranteed to take out Shaheen.”
Well that’s an overstatement, he’d have been a slight favorite.
This is a great disappointment. We can’t let this bitch off the hook.
I see the NH House is volatile every election. And paid $200 a session.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_House_of_Representatives
Yeah it’s the largest lower House and it’s ratio of voters to members is the smallest, only 3300 voters per. For California that number is close to half a million.
I recall in 2006 when the rats unexpectedly won it, a lot of new rat members who didn’t expect to win chose not to take their seats, they couldn’t afford to. Before 2006 it was GOP for 80 years. It took a while for GOP advantage to erode, now it swings back and forth.
Correction, Those figures I gave were total popular per seat not “voters”.
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