Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire knows what time it is. He has chosen not to run for President of the United States.
Our party is on a collision course toward electoral irrelevance without significant corrective action. The stakes are too high for a crowded field to hand the nomination to a candidate who earns just 35 percent of the vote, and I will help ensure this does not happen.
Sununu thinks the GOP needs to stop Donald Trump from winning in 2024. The polling data suggests he is right, at least at the moment.
Contrast Sununu with Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota. I have no ill will towards the man. I just do not know who he is and had to google him. Burgum became a Senior Vice President of Microsoft Business Solutions Group after selling his software company to Microsoft for $1.1 billion.
Men like that are easy prey for political consultants and rarely can be talked out of decisions they want to make. A successful businessman turned governor tends to be the hardest head in politics who looks at all the others in the room who were not successful in business before turning to politics as lesser men and women.
Contrast Burgum to both Chris Christie and Mike Pence, two other men who will declare for the presidency this week. Both men have high name identification, bases of support, and existing fundraising pools for a national audience. Burgum has none of those things.
Even Governor Sununu registered in the Real Clear Politics polling average, though at one percent, tied with Chris Christie.
Again, I have no ill will toward the Governor of North Dakota and would gladly have him on my show or at the Gathering to talk about his candidacy. I just do not understand why a man who must be googled to be known who represents a state with a total population smaller than that of Charlotte, NC,1 and who won re-election getting fewer votes than the population of Laredo, TX,2 thinks now is a good time to run for President in a Republican Primary that includes a former President, a former Vice President, and multiple other people who need not be googled by the general population.
I mean, good luck and God speed to the consultants, but goodness. This just does not seem to make sense.
North Dakota has a population of 774,948. Charlotte, NC has a population of 897,720.
Burgum won re-election in 2020 with 235,479 votes. Laredo, TX has a population of 256,187. For perspective, Chris Sununu won re-election in New Hampshire in 2022 with 352,813 votes. Nikki Haley received 696,645 votes in her South Carolina re-election in 2014 and Ron DeSantis received 4,614,210 votes in his 2022 Florida re-election.
Then help me understand why the GOP does not adopt a better system?
Been talking to Peter Strzok?
"The stakes are too high for a crowded field to hand the nomination to a candidate who earns just 35 percent of the vote, and I will help ensure this does not happen."
Baring any deep health issue(s) DT will be the Repub nominee. DeSantis might be ask to be VP. This will be to the chagrin of all Dems, RINOs, and just simple DT haters.
You wonder why DT has the attitude he does? Well, just think about the lies, accusations, that have been thrown at him from 2015 daily until today. Why will you not react to the flat out attempted coup against DT from Obama, Biden, and all Fed agencies, DOJ, FBI, CIA, NIL, et als? J Biden nor Kam Harris will not even be a or the candidate in 2024. So again, these John Kasich's will have their 10 minutes of application, and get their 8-10 % of votes, and then withdraw.
When will the GITMO military tribunals be formed to prosecute those corrupt Dems, including AG, FBI Dir, etc.? It has now been established that the FBI classified facts of Biden corruptions as " Misinformation"., and that troubles very few people?