Trump suggests supporting the offer of the longtime critic to turn the senate seat in 2026
It seems that the president Donald Trump He buried the ascetta when it comes to the former New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu, who for years has been one of the best republican critics of the former and current president.
Trump now states that if Sununu runs for the Senate in 2026 for the seat currently detained by the retired democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen, his former antagonist would have his full support.
Sununu, who completed his fourth and last two -year period in January who led the New Hampshire’s swing state of swing, He told Fox News Digital In an interview last month who aimed to make a decision regarding a 2026 campaign in the “following weeks”.
He stressed that “I have no doubts I would have the support of the president”, if he had decided to do An offer for the Senate.
President Donald Trump speaks with the members of the press aboard the Air Force One during a flight for the joint Andrews base, Maryland, April 6, 2025. (Reuters/Kent Nishimura)
Trump, when he was asked by Sununu journalists while flew to Washington, DC, on Sunday evening aboard the Air Force One, revealed that the two politicians recently met at the White House.
“I told him – he came to my office, he came to the oval office and (I) I met Chris Sununu and I fully support him. I hope he runs,” said Trump. “It was very kind to me in the last year or down, but no, I hope it runs. I think that place will win.”
Sununu supported Trump during the 2016 General Elections and again when Trump worked without success for the re -election in 2020. The then governor had a strong employment relationship with the White House of Trump, including the close ties with the then President Mike Pence.
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However, Sununu rejected Trump’s unproven claims that the 2020 presidential elections It was “made up” and “stolen”. He also began to affirm at the beginning of 2021 that the Gop was bigger than any person, who was perceived as a blow to the then format president.
Sununu has expanded his criticisms of the former president during numerous national interviews on cable news networks and Sunday talk shows, repeatedly supporting that Trump had too much political baggage to regain the White House. In addition, Sununu began to mull out a possible 2024 Run White House Just his own, who in the end decided.
The republican governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire supports the former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley in an event of the campaign in Manchester, New Hampshire, on December 12, 2023. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
However, he ended up supporting and becoming a best surrogate of the former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley In the Gop’s primary elections of 2024. Haley ended up being the final rival of Trump in the appointment race.
Trump occasionally returned the fire to Sununu, calling him a “spoiled marble” and a “bad boy”, among other things.
However, after Trump won the 2024 GoP nomination, Sununu said he would vote for the candidate for the presidency of his party.
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At the beginning of this year, Sununu declared in a Fox News digital interview that “Donald Trump is the head of the party, and it is the voice of the Republican Party, and I must say that I think he is doing a good job damn in the first two months”.
As for a potential 2026 Senate Run For a place that the Republicans aim to turn the blue to red while they hope to expand their current majority 53-47 in the room, Sununu told Fox News Digital last month that “the door is open to the race, he underlined” is not very open, to tell the truth “.
Sununu, who was elected and re -elected to four two consecutive years as governor, has advertised that “I have no doubts that I can win”.
The republican governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire is interviewed by Fox News Digital during his last whole day in office, on January 8, 2025 at the Statehouse of Concord, in New Hampshire. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
The comments of the former governor in recent interviews are a passage of last year, when he repeatedly said that he would not try to apply for the Senate in 2026.
Four years ago, Sununu expressed interest in applying to the Senate against his predecessor as governor, the democratic senator Maggie Hassan, who was able to re -election in 2022. The popular governor was heavily courted by the national republicans to face the nation, but on November 9, 2021, he announced that Sununu announced that he would instead apply for a quarter -term, who was leaving a government, facing many republicans.
In addition, he strongly criticized the Senate. “Discuss and speak and nothing is done,” he said at that moment.
Sununu, who left the assignment in January with very positive approval and favorable evaluations, is seen by the national Republicans as the best candidate to win the seat. However, it is not the only republican who reproaches an offer of the Senate in New Hampshire.
Late forms. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, who later lost Shaheen in New Hampshire in the 2014 elections, is seriously taking into consideration a 2026 race.
Former Senator Scott Brown was interviewed by Fox News Digital on December 24, 2024 in Rye, New Hampshire. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Brown, who worked for four years as an ambassador of the United States in New Zealand during the first administration of Trump, held meetings with the Republicans throughout New Hampshire for a couple of months and has met several times with Gop officials in the capital of the nation.
At the beginning of this year, Brown met the best political officials of the Trump administration at the White House, said sources at Fox News.
When asked about the president’s comments on Sununu, Brown told Fox News in a declaration that “President Trump is the party leader and has gained the right to approve anyone who supports. There is no path for a republican nomination that runs against the candidates supported by President Trump”.
In the race for the nomination of the Democratic Senate in New Hampshire, the representative of four terms Chris Pappas formally launched his campaign last week.
Using the clips of a listening tour that made the New Hampshire counties through all ten counts last month while it was unleashed towards the race for the Senate, Pappas said that the voters feel like “the system is made up”.
The representative Chris Pappas, DN.H., announces his offer to be able to collect the American senator Jeanne Shaheen, a democratic colleague, Thursday 3 April 2025, in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Photo ap/Robert F. Bukaty)
“Think of the social security office that will be closed in Littleton, drastic cuts in Medicaid, all in the name of giving great tax breaks to billionaires such as Elon Musk,“He claimed, while indicating the best Trump donor and the richest person in the world, who is guiding the controversial downsizing of the administration of the workforce of the federal government.
Pappas stressed: “I get angry, because when you talk about public service, you should focus on how you can help people, how you can improve people’s lives”.
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Pappas may not have the primary of the democratic senate in New Hampshire to himself.
Sources close to the Maggie Goodlander representative, another member of the New Hampshire Chamber, said last month that the first term representative is taking into consideration a race in the Senate.
