Posted on 10/17/2025 8:35:33 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Former Sen. John E. Sununu (R-N.H.) is expected to launch a bid to return to the upper chamber in the near future, NOTUS reported Wednesday.
In March, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) announced she will not run for reelection in 2026, setting up an open-seat election in the Granite State.
Sununu, 61, previously represented New Hampshire in the Senate from 2003 to 2009. He lost reelection to Shaheen in 2008, and has not held elected office since.
Early last month, Sununu told WMUR9 that he was considering running for Senate, and would tour the state before making a decision by the end of October. He also told the outlet that if he were to run, he would seek the support of President Trump.
... Sununu’s entering the race would pit him against former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown in the GOP primary. Brown, who entered the 2026 race in June, represented Massachusetts in the Senate from 2010 to 2013, but lost to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2012.
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Speaking of Scott Brown - maybe he could be persuaded to instead run for the open House seat?
Loser. Proven.
Whatever, at least he’s got the name recognition, let’s face it. Anybody with an “R” next name is probably better than nothing out of New Hampshire.
So the current gal is another carpetbagger? Hillary was a carpetbagger in NY. Romney was a carpetbagger too, governor of MA then Senator from UT. (??). Ridiculous and I don’t know why voters go for it. Sununu I think is an actual long time resident of the state.
But “no kings” right? But I guess you can flop around from office to office and state to state and there’s nothing wrong with that. Not a king. Just another jester.
Who here is surprised?????
At the state level, NH is completely republican run.
Republican governor, house, senate, and executive council.
We still have no state income tax and have steadfastly warded off almost all gun control measures. Granite staters LOVE their guns.
And Live Free or Die, (except for the brain dead liberals, and MASShole transplants, in southern NH, good FReepers excluded)
It sounds like where I live right now in North Carolina, where the GOP is dominant at the state and local level.
Yet, we still seem to find a way to elect Democrat, governors, and democrat Senate candidates always seem to get almost a 50-50 shot when they run as a matter of fact, the last guy, I forget his name that was running for the Senate as a Democrat really only lost because he was a complete shit bag in the military, who was actually having a sexual relationship with an NCO‘s wife while he was an officer. That’s really the only reason he lost.
I’m not native to hear, I’m actually from Massachusetts myself so I’m familiar with the north east. But one interesting dynamic down here is that a lot of people especially folks 50 and older that I’ve talked to and I’m certain they’re hard-core conservative Republicans, her actually old school blue dog Democrats. And they’re actually still registered as Democrat Democrats too. And they will literally vote for Trump for president because they know the Democrats on a national level of running the country into the ground, and then on the same ticket, the boat straight Democrat for the rest of their ballot
It’s just weird, and I think they do it because they just can’t admit to themselves that the days of they’re granddaddy‘s Democrat party with folks like Kennedy, LBJ and even Clinton, are long gone.
...and Lebnin. Don’t forget about commie Lebnin. And commie Enfield.
Chris is a dunce. The former Senator, his brother John, would be a better choice.
Speaking of Massachusetts, radio host Howie Carr has a new book out:
“Mass Corruption”.
The title is a pun by this “N.Y. Times Best-Selling author—of course...
A sanctimonious Never Trumnper, emblematic of everything that has gone wrong for the GOP over the last half century. No more Bushite scum. It would be better to lose the election to a Democrat than to enable this creature to embed himself in the Senate for decades, working across the aisle to aid Democrat policies ala Murkowski, Collins, etc.
Yup, Dartmouth College.
For the Senators, I understand that during the last couple elections, they got in by only a very slim margin of a few thousand vote, which would be enough for election fraud in Manchester, Concord, and the Upper Valley to account for.
And Plainfield.
I’ve been in NC all my 55 years. You’re right the old school dems are conservative. It’s the whack job liberals in the triangle that muck this state up.
NC suffers from voter fraud in urban areas. I’ve seen it in action
What many fail to understand is this is a numbers game. Being in the minority, will bring hell to trump and others.
What you do is you put up with them for 2 terms and then tell them to get lost. Didn’t work with Murkowski. Even the good ones go stale-Cornyn/McLame/turtle. Incumbency is a bitch
Numbers game-we need to keep Collins-an exception to my rule.
I agree about your voting fraud comments. I remember I think it was the governors election a couple cycles back where there was basically open and obvious fraud going on in Durham, and it was probably just as bad in Charlotte too.
WRAL didn’t see a thing or find anything suspicious either obviously.
I love howie carr, he’s a national treasure. He’s also a true journalist too. He was the one doing some heavy reporting on the whole Whitey bulger thing when the Winterhill gang was still pretty much at full strength, and he basically put his life on the line with his reporting, but still did it. Something that would be absolutely unheard of with 99% of those in the media and in the journalism line of work nowadays.
His wit and sarcasm are so funny to read, and I love how he’s so just openly insulting to the Democrat leadership of the state, and they deserve every ounce of it
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