Is New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu the Republican Party's post-Trump future?
Sununu’s stances don’t necessarily make him an outlier in the Trump-era GOP. But the way he talks about politics — and his hesitance to engage in hyperbolic partisanship or embrace conspiracy theories does.After the hike, we swing by the local sheriff’s office for a costume change. When Sununu emerges, he’s traded his gray cargos for gray chinos, and his blue hiking button-down for a cotton one of the same color.
Does that apply in New Hampshire? “I think we’re a lot more fortunate than other states are,” he says, without addressing Bolduc’s contributions to the canon. Yet, somehow this has not tainted Sununu’s relationship with Trump, at least in the governor’s eyes. “There’s a lot of outside speculation about our relationship,” Sununu admits. When Trump called New Hampshire a “drug-infested den” in a conversation with the president of Mexico in 2017, Sununu hit back with a statement that called the president “wrong.
The more you listen to Sununu, the more you begin to see how he manages to stay out of the base’s crosshairs. He gets cynical when he sees anti-Trumpers get too brash. He skirts the thorny issues by bringing it back to New Hampshire’s idiosyncrasies, as he did when we discussed abortion: — “pre-, it’s exactly the same here,” he said.
He tells me this at the Red Arrow Diner in Manchester, over coffee and an overflowing mug of maple-cured bacon, a Red Arrow specialty. Sununu sits across from me with a stack of birthday cards he signs for anyone who requests them, a pandemic-era practice he started when he “canceled every kid’s birthday party” and kept going long after.
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