{"id":1944693,"date":"2023-06-05T17:52:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T21:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/potential-gop-candidate-backs-down-admits-trump-commands-an-unexpected-lead\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T17:54:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T21:54:01","slug":"potential-gop-candidate-backs-down-admits-trump-commands-an-unexpected-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/potential-gop-candidate-backs-down-admits-trump-commands-an-unexpected-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP hopeful withdraws, acknowledges Trump&#8217;s surprising lead."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fpotential-gop-candidate-backs-down-admits-trump-commands-an-unexpected-lead%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=1944693&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--><h2>Republican Governor Chris Sununu Decides Against 2024 Presidential Bid<\/h2>\n<p>Republican New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has announced that he will not be running for president in 2024. This news may disappoint the ladies of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; who seemed to be more interested in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/potential-gop-candidate-backs-down-admits-trump-commands-an-unexpected-lead\/\" title=\"GOP hopeful withdraws, acknowledges Trump's surprising lead.\">moderate establishment politics<\/a> than Republican voters were.<\/p>\n<p>Sununu had been considering a run to take the GOP back from former President Donald Trump, but he ultimately decided against it. Trump currently has a big lead in early polls, and Sununu acknowledged that he was doing much better than people thought.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In part citing Donald Trump, Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) says he will not run for the Republican presidential ticket in 2024:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou obviously have a very large field. I think the former president, Trump, is doing much better in the polls than folks thought.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FbzlDxtUYF\">pic.twitter.com\/FbzlDxtUYF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1665769639186673664?\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Sununu won&#8217;t be running for president, he plans to be active in the primary and focus on taking down Trump and encouraging others in the party to stay out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-the-nras-strategy-to-escape-disaster\/\" title=\"Inside the NRA\u2019s Strategy to Escape Disaster\">culture war<\/a>. He believes that the future of the Republican Party lies in bringing independents and young people onto the ticket and expanding beyond the culture wars that alienate them.<\/p>\n<p>Although Sununu may have felt that there was a path to victory for him, he ultimately decided that he could have more influence on the future of the Republican Party and the 2024 nominating process as the governor of the first-in-the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-wont-say-if-hell-back-biden-in-2024\/\" title=\"Manchin Won't Say If He'll Back Biden in 2024\">-nation primary state<\/a>. He plans to speak candidly about issues, candidates, and the direction of the party, untethered from the limitations of a presidential campaign and unleashed from conventional boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>While Sununu may have made friends on the left during his brief flirtation with a presidential run, he was never on anyone&#8217;s radar as a serious candidate. Republicans need a nominee who will fight the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/23-conservative-movies-that-defy-the-hollywood-trend\/\" title=\"23 Conservative Movies That Defy The Hollywood Trend\">culture war battles<\/a> on their behalf and defend ideals such as decency and civility.<\/p>\n<p>The soul of the country hangs in the balance, and Sununu&#8217;s decision not to run for president will hopefully clear the way for serious candidates to pitch messages that conservative voters actually want to hear.<\/p>\n<h3>Sources:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">view<\/a>-host-pushes-republican-run-trump-mispronounce-name\/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>The View<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-governor-cozies-view-claims-trump-will-not-win-nomination-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/poll-finds-majority-americans-believe-fbi-officials-prosecuted-promoting-false-trump-russia-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/28\/politics\/chris-sununu-president-2024-republican-cnntv\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/06\/05\/politics\/chris-sununu-not-running-2024\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/republican-chris-sununu-not-running-president-2024\/44095692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WMUR-TV<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/06\/05\/chris-sununu-trump-gop-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlson-asked-gop-presidential-hopefuls-position-ukraine-major-differences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-single-handedly-turns-tide-culture-war-execs-terrified-become-next-disney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/christian-dodgers-star-breaks-silence-lgbt-group-controversy-points-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnn-ceo-said-two-words-trump-town-hall-ended-defining-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Journal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/potential-gop-candidate-backs-admits-trump-commands-unexpected-lead\/\">Potential GOP Candidate Backs Down, Admits Trump Commands an Unexpected Lead<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu has ruled out a 2024 presidential run, disappointing ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; hosts more than Republican voters. Sununu&#8217;s moderate establishment politics didn&#8217;t appeal to the latter, but he resonated with Whoopi Goldberg, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":1944694,"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":[10179,6203,4566,6961,13010,3794,10845],"class_list":["post-1944693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-acknowledges","tag-gop","tag-hopeful","tag-lead","tag-surprising","tag-trumps","tag-withdraws"],"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\/1944693","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\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}