“The very adjectives that voters attribute to Sununu, and like about him, will be the very things that make a presidential run so difficult for Sununu. Even in New Hampshire, there’s a large number of Republicans who approve of the job he’s doing as governor but don’t support him in a run for president, and those are the very reasons.”
— UNH Political Science Professor Dante Scala on the guv’s prez prospects.
“Sununu told me that there’s a ‘61 percent chance’ he runs for president — his words — and 39 percent chance that he just plays the role of kingmaker in New Hampshire, where he has some of the highest approval ratings in the country.”
— Tara Palmeri, senior political correspondent for the news site Puck, in a May 18 tweet.
“(Trump) had a chance to move on from 2020, he didn’t do it. He had a chance to own some of the issues of Jan. 6 … what his role there was, he didn’t do it.
If you’re an independent voter, if you’re a suburban mom, all these voters that Republicans are trying to bring back into the mix, I don’t see any of them being convinced by anything.
— The guv’s reaction to the GOP prez front-runner’s infamous town hall appearance on CNN.
“I think it gets narrowed down a lot more quickly than it did back in 2016. It needs to narrow down, and my guess is it will narrow into the fall.”
— Gov. Chris Sununu on the GOP prez field needing to be smaller before the primaries start, as he mulls throwing his hat into an ever-growing ring.
“I don’t do coy. We’ll decide in the next week or two. Pretty soon, we’ll make a decision … and we’ll either be go or no-go.”
— Guv Sununu, speaking May 28 on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I know I could obviously do very well in New Hampshire, but I would need to do very well in Iowa, and I think there’s a huge path to doing that — a strategy a little different than what other folks have thought of before, but there’s an amazing opportunity.”
— The guv on his prospects in Iowa.
“I’m more of a lower-case ‘L’ – libertarian, of course.”
— Guv Sununu
“I had been holding out hope to be Governor Sununu’s Presidential campaign chair, but am now convinced he will be staying for a historic fifth term in his current office.”
— House Majority Leader Jason Osborne on why he endorsed Fla. guv Ron DeSantis for prez on May 4.
“I will say if he gets in the race, it’s going to be really freaking weird for everybody. I don’t know what that’s going to look like.”
— House Majority Leader Jason Osborne on what happens if the guv joins the prez race.
“I plan on at least three or four more Easter egg rolls. Maybe five. Maybe six, what the hell? I don’t know.”
— Prez Biden on plans to run for re-election.
