{"id":1939976,"date":"2023-05-28T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-governor-cozies-up-with-the-view-claims-trump-will-not-win-nomination-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2023-05-28T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T16:34:54","slug":"gop-governor-cozies-up-with-the-view-claims-trump-will-not-win-nomination-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-governor-cozies-up-with-the-view-claims-trump-will-not-win-nomination-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Governor predicts Trump won&#8217;t win nomination in 2024, appears on &#8216;The View&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-governor-cozies-up-with-the-view-claims-trump-will-not-win-nomination-in-2024%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1939976&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New Hampshire\u2019s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu joined the hosts of ABC\u2019s daytime talk show \u201cThe View\u201d last week and did his best to play the \u201ccentrist\u201d Republican by cozying up to the leftist hosts.<\/p>\n<p>One has to wonder, why do Republicans do this? They seem never to understand that \u201ccentrists\u201d never win. The Democrats may applaud their mushy middle approach to things, but they will never vote for them, and conservatives won\u2019t vote for them, either, because they seem more like Democrats than Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, every presidential cycle there are always those who want to look like the \u201cunity\u201d candidate who can fill the middle and get votes from both sides \u2026 even though they never do.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Sununu, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/numbers-dont-lie-poll-shows-gop-governors-massively-outperforming-democrat-peers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">popular governor<\/a> at home, wants to be this cycle\u2019s mushy middle loser. While he has not yet announced a presidential run, he is rumored to be strongly considering it. And his appearance on \u201cThe View\u201d \u2014 which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/view-host-pushes-republican-run-trump-mispronounce-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed his candidacy<\/a> before \u2014 seems to presage his campaign tactics.<\/p>\n<p>In his appearance on Thursday, Sununu launched into a long series of \u201cagreements\u201d with the liberal hosts, telling them abortion shouldn\u2019t be an issue, and saying Republicans shouldn\u2019t \u201cattack\u201d the transgender movement. He also did not dispute the false argument that the so-called 1990s \u201cassault weapons ban\u201d stopped mass shootings \u2014 a claim that is simply untrue.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed former President Donald Trump cannot win in 2024, but the end of his appearance showed the weakness of his argument.<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Sununu was first elected as governor of New Hampshire in 2016 and the state has had a Republican-controlled legislature since 2021. Despite that voting record, though, the \u201cLive Free or Die\u201d state gave Hillary Clinton its vote in 2016 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/elections\/2016\/results\/new-hampshire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">though barely<\/a>) and gave President Joe Biden the win <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2020\/results\/state\/new-hampshire\/president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2020<\/a>. So, the state is somewhat purple.<\/p>\n<p>At the outset of the appearance, for instance, Sununu agreed with host Whoopi Goldberg\u2019s false characterization of the debate on inappropriate books in schools. Goldberg\u2019s first question was, \u201cAre you OK with parents deciding what their kids should be reading, and not the government?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sununu fell all over himself to agree with Goldberg\u2019s proposition, saying, \u201cParents come first, absolutely. End of story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, is an extremely skewed presentation about what is actually going on. In fact, parents <em>have<\/em> been speaking up at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-country-moved-14-points-towards-gop-in-2021\/\" title=\"Nolte: Country Moved 14 Points Towards GOP in 2021\">left-wing school boards<\/a> all across the U.S. to say that they don\u2019t want their kids reading sexually explicit, gay-themed, groomer materials in grade school. But these school boards, which are mostly captured by the extreme left, are ignoring what parents want.<\/p>\n<p>That is why states like Florida have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-plays-pornographic-video-books-removed-school-libraries-graphic-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stepped in<\/a> to mandate the removal of books that have no place in the education of young people. But no state is banning books.<\/p>\n<p>Sununu went on to say, \u201cYou do you. Do I disagree with what some school boards do? Yep. But, I\u2019m the governor, you\u2019re the voter, you\u2019re smarter than me. You know what your school needs, you know what your business needs, you know what your community needs. My job is to set up doors of opportunity so you can make the choices. And guess what? If [school boards] make the wrong choice, go fire them. Go vote at the school board, get them out of office and bring somebody else in there. That\u2019s the power that individuals have in changing the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whole idea that you\u2019re going to have one president to solve your problems. No. Or one governor that\u2019s going to take care of everything, our side\u2019s gonna win. No way, that is so old-school thinking, and I think both parties have realized that really don\u2019t work. So, keep it local,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>That all sounds wonderful and \u201cThe View\u201d hosts were all agreeing with him. But the problem is that the far left does not really follow this ideal. Progressives work to mandate their extremism on the federal level and they don\u2019t want local control or parents having any say in anything. So, Sununu is really just ceding ground to the far left by imagining that parents voting in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-backed-school-board-candidates-enjoy-successful-election-night-flipping-least-1-district-anti-woke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">school board election<\/a> will fix everything. Not that we shouldn\u2019t vote in school board elections, granted. But that is not the only solution, despite Sununu\u2019s mushy middle approach.<\/p>\n<p>Sununu also slammed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and said that the coming presidential campaign \u201ccan\u2019t be about a culture war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, this has to be about inflation,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I hear someone running for president and they don\u2019t talk about inflation \u2014 which is the worst tax on the poor you could ever create \u2014 and it\u2019s only government-created, by the way. The only thing that creates inflation is presidents spending more money, that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, no candidate, including Ron DeSantis, is only talking about the \u201cculture war.\u201d DeSantis, for instance, has made his successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-ron-desantis-can-fix-americas-economic-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic leadership<\/a> of the Sunshine State a centerpiece of his young campaign. And Trump has always made his campaigns about his business acumen and pro-growth policies.<\/p>\n<p>Then came Sununu\u2019s caving to Sunny Hostin\u2019s claim that Republicans are \u201cattacking the trans community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, yeah,\u201d Sununu pandered. \u201cGood leaders shouldn\u2019t be attacking anybody. We should be raising people up. Right? I mean that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, is nonsense. The whole transgender issue did not arise until the Democrats and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-governor-cozies-up-with-the-view-claims-trump-will-not-win-nomination-in-2024\/\" title=\"GOP Governor predicts Trump won't win nomination in 2024, appears on 'The View'.\">extremist activist groups began targeting school children<\/a> to promote their groomer agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and parents only reacted when the left began inserting gender ideology into public education, began forcing girls to compete alongside stronger, faster, and more powerful boys in \u201cgirls\u201d sports, and began filling school libraries with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/masterpiece-cakeshop-christian-baker-on-trial-again-this-time-sued-by-transgender-activist\/\" title=\"Masterpiece Cakeshop Christian Baker On Trial Again: This Time Sued By Transgender Activist\">sexually explicit material<\/a> to break down our children\u2019s resistance to being brought into sexual contact with adults.<\/p>\n<p>Sununu also insisted that Trump can\u2019t win a primary and won\u2019t be the nominee because the \u201cMAGA base\u201d isn\u2019t big enough to push him over the top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe true MAGA base, I would say \u2014 like I don\u2019t like using that term, but \u2014 is about 30 percent. I think that\u2019s about what it is. When you see polls now, the former president might pull at 55, maybe even 60 percent.\u201d Sununu added that the average Republican really only supports Trump because he is getting \u201cbeat up\u201d by leftists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guy\u2019s playing the victim card,\u201d Sununu said. \u201cDonald Trump is playing the victim card, how crazy is that? But the media has allowed it to happen, the rhetoric has allowed it to happen, so, will that translate to a vote nine months from now? No!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went as far as to say \u201cwell, I might vote for Joe Biden\u201d in the 2024 election if Trump is the nominee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Trump were to make the ballot, first off, he can\u2019t win in November, that\u2019s for darn sure,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, it\u2019s got to be someone other than Trump because mathematically there\u2019s no way, he wouldn\u2019t win Georgia. That\u2019s a fact. If you\u2019re a Republican and you can\u2019t win Georgia, we gotta move on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sununu also said that the \u201cworst part\u201d about Trump is \u201che drags everyone else down,\u201d and said the GOP lost \u201cthree or four\u201d governorships and the control of the U.S. Senate because of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>He next moved on to abortion and said that being a \u201cpro-choice Republican,\u201d he supports last year\u2019s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court knocking down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-roe-v-wade-overturned-trump-nominated-justices-help-deliver-biggest-pro-life-win-american-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Roe v. Wade<\/i><\/a> and returning the issue of abortion to the states. Every state will approach it differently, he said, and that is a good thing. But he warned that making it a national issue will \u201cdestroy\u201d Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny Republican talking about a national abortion ban is just screwing the party over, altogether. And I really mean that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>To wrap up the visit, host Sunny Hostin delivered some false claims about mass shootings that Sununu let stand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last 145 days, we\u2019ve had 241 mass shootings in this country,\u201d Hostin blathered.<\/p>\n<p>While Hostin did not say where she got her numbers, the problem with these extremely high estimates is that they usually include gang violence, and many times include incidents where no one was killed at all. Further, the standard definition of \u201cmass shooting\u201d \u2014 deaths of four or more \u2014 often goes unobserved in these estimates. So, some estimates are higher than others because the criteria are too elastic, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maciverinstitute.com\/2021\/04\/debunking-every-major-myth-about-mass-shootings-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MacGiver Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hostin continued, \u201cAs governor, you\u2019ve loosened gun laws in your state, and you hold an \u2018A\u2019 rating from the NRA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hostin then quoted Sununu who she says said, \u201cThere\u2019s no law you\u2019re going to pass that\u2019s going to stop mass shootings. There\u2019s no law you\u2019re going to pass that\u2019s just going to magically stop gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But then Hostin added, \u201cHowever, there was a law that was passed, and that law was passed in 1997 and it was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/data-shows-white-supremacists-are-not-the-most-likely-mass-murderers\/\" title=\"Data Shows White Supremacists Are Not The Most Likely Mass Murderers\">federal assault weapons ban<\/a>. And it cut it, the 1994, rather, and it cut gun violence by 70 percent. And the minute it was reinstated \u2014 mass shootings \u2014 and the minute it was reinstated they went up. Why not put that law back in?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Hostin disgorged a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/karine-jean-pierre-gets-totally-schooled-claim-assault-weapons-literally-never-happened\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">false claims<\/a>, there, not the least of which she used the word \u201creinstated\u201d when she meant that the law expired. (She probably meant \u201crepealed\u201d which it wasn\u2019t. It had a sunset clause and simply expired and went out of effect in 2004.)<\/p>\n<p>Further, excitable claims that it cut mass shootings by 70 percent have since be debunked by several studies, including a 2020 study by the liberal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/research\/gun-policy\/analysis\/ban-assault-weapons\/mass-shootings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rand Corp.<\/a> that found that there was no conclusive evidence that the ban stopped any gun violence. Another study published by Mark Gius of Quinnipiac University in 2014 said that the effects of assault weapons bans \u201con the overall murder rate are probably minimal at best,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/03\/24\/bidens-claim-that-1994-assault-weapons-law-brought-down-mass-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a> reported last year.<\/p>\n<p>But Sununu didn\u2019t bother to correct the record on any of Hostin\u2019s false claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not have the mass shootings in the 1990s that we have today,\u201d Sununu said as he began his answer. \u201cIt\u2019s exponentially worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your argument is, \u2018If we just have more gun bans and more gun laws\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chicago-crime-spiked-40-percent-lori-lightfoot-thinks-deserves-raise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a> would be the safest place in the country. They have the most restrictive laws,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Hostin was not satisfied. \u201cBut the problem with that argument is that the guns that they use in Chicago are coming from states that have looser gun laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is also false. Illinois has some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/state-rankings\/strictest-gun-laws-by-state\">strictest gun laws<\/a> in the country, yet, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2023\/2\/4\/23585066\/atf-gun-trafficking-justice-department-time-to-crime-chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>, \u201cmost of the traced guns, about 16,500 of them, were bought from somewhere within Illinois, with about 8,200 more coming from Indiana. Wisconsin, Kentucky and Mississippi each was the source of fewer than 2,000 guns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Sununu did not confront Hostin on her false claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK, so if your argument is that we should ban something federally, I remind you, the Democrats had the House, the Senate and the presidency for two years, they did nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then said that he runs the \u201csafest state in the country.\u201d The mass shooting problem, he added, is a mental health issue, not a gun issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have the safest state in the country,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can talk about the validity, the merit of the law based on the results it gets. I have the safest state in the country, so, why aren\u2019t we having the mass shootings? It\u2019s not because people have access to guns, it\u2019s because we\u2019re not dealing with mental health, we don\u2019t provide mental health access with kids, when people are in crisis they have nowhere to turn, they resort to violence. We don\u2019t do the right things in terms of locking down our schools and protecting them, the core of the issue is mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, as is typical, Joy Behar jumped in to criticize the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/15-year-old-hero-used-ar-15-protect-12-year-old-sister-2-punk-burglers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AR-15<\/a>, which she erroneously called \u201cThe automatic rifle that kills a bunch of children who are just going to school.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Truth About the AR-15<\/h2>\n<p>Contrary to popular belief, the \u201cAR\u201d in AR-15 does not stand for \u201cautomatic rifle.\u201d In fact, the weapon is semi-automatic, not automatic. The \u201cAR\u201d actually stands for \u201cArmalite Rifle.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>A Governor&#8217;s Controversial Statement on &#8220;The View&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Recently, a GOP governor appeared on &#8220;The View&#8221; and made a controversial statement about President Trump&#8217;s chances of winning the nomination in 2024. The audience was not pleased, but co-host Whoopi Goldberg urged them to listen and engage in conversation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The governor insisted he was not banning any guns.<\/li>\n<li>Instead, he plans to focus on mental health and addressing the root causes of violence.<\/li>\n<li>Despite his efforts to appease the audience, they still booed him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems that &#8220;The View&#8221; was attempting to appear moderate, but their audience&#8217;s reaction proved otherwise. The governor&#8217;s statement may have been controversial, but it&#8217;s important to listen to all perspectives and engage in meaningful dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this story on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-governor-cozies-view-claims-trump-will-not-win-nomination-2024\/\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire&#8217;s GOP Governor Chris Sununu appeared on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; and attempted to portray himself as a centrist Republican by aligning with the show&#8217;s leftist hosts. However, this strategy is flawed as centrists rarely win. It remains unclear why Republicans continue to pursue this approach, while Democrats may benefit from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":1939979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[6962,4506,5840,6203,4173,9134,5713,3634,5963,7627,4324],"class_list":["post-1939976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-the","tag-4506","tag-appears","tag-gop","tag-governor","tag-nomination","tag-predicts","tag-trump","tag-view","tag-win","tag-wont"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}