{"id":2220877,"date":"2024-04-14T17:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T21:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-sununu-walks-back-comments-that-trump-should-drop-out-of-2024-election-if-convicted\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T17:52:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T21:52:52","slug":"chris-sununu-walks-back-comments-that-trump-should-drop-out-of-2024-election-if-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-sununu-walks-back-comments-that-trump-should-drop-out-of-2024-election-if-convicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sununu retracts statement about Trump dropping out of 2024 election if convicted"},"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\">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%2Fchris-sununu-walks-back-comments-that-trump-should-drop-out-of-2024-election-if-convicted%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=2220877&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>Governor Chris \u200bSununu of New Hampshire retracted his statements \u2062regarding Donald Trump&#8217;s electability, despite maintaining previous criticisms. Sununu, who endorsed Nikki Haley for the 2024 presidential primary, expressed in an interview \u2064on ABC News&#8217;s This Week that\u200b he does not believe Trump should withdraw from the race if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attack-of-the-zombie-era\/\" title=\"Attack of the Zombie ERA\">facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbp-ice-release-reports-on-border-arrests-seizures\/\" title=\"CBP, ICE release reports on border arrests, seizures\">criminal charges<\/a><\/a>. Sununu emphasized a \u200bdesire for \u200bcultural change within the Republican Party.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chris-sununu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Chris Sununu<\/a> (R-NH) walked back claims that he made about former President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s electability on Sunday despite reaffirming most of the criticisms he\u2019s made of the former president over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Sununu, who had endorsed Nikki Haley in the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>2024<\/a> presidential primary, said in an interview with ABC News\u2019s <em>This Week<\/em> that he does not think Trump should drop out of the race if he is convicted of criminal charges in one of his four felony cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, no, no \u2014 he\u2019s going to drop out after being the nominee? Of course not. You know that\u2019s not to be expected at all,\u201d Sununu told anchor George Stephanopoulos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, they [people] want that culture change within the Republican Party. And if we have to have Trump as the standard-bearer \u2014 and the voters decided that\u2019s what they wanted, not what I wanted\u2026 If he\u2019s going to be the standard-bearer of that, we\u2019ll take it if we have to. That\u2019s how badly America wants a culture change,\u201d the Republican governor continued.<\/p>\n<p>This was a change in tune for Sununu, who said in an interview with CNN in June 2023 that the former president should suspend his campaign for the White House if he is found guilty on any of the 88 charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, there had been several GOP presidential candidates. Trump had also just been indicted over his handling of classified documents, with those charges joining the ones he received in March that year from a New York hush-money case that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/2963573\/what-to-know-about-jury-selection-ahead-of-trump-hush-money-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"will go to trial on Monday\">will go to trial on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite walking back his claims about Trump and his presidential campaign, Sununu said he still \u201c100%\u201d agrees with his critique of the former president\u2019s efforts on Jan. 6, 2021, to overturn the 2020 election that contributed to an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Trump is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-big-guy-says-hunter-has-done-nothing-wrong\/\" title=\"Big guy defends Hunter's innocence.\">facing criminal charges related<\/a> to those actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis actions absolutely contributed to that,\u201d Sununu said to Stephanopoulos. \u201cThere\u2019s no question about that. I hate the election denialism of 2020. Nobody wants to be talking about that in 2024. I think all of that was absolutely terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, he said backing Trump is about more than just the former president and many Americans agree a \u201cchange\u201d in the federal government is needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiberal elites in Washington want to stand on the shoulders of hardworking American families that built this country, defended this country, and tell them how to live their lives,\u201d Sununu said. \u201cThey\u2019re angry. They\u2019re upset. That\u2019s the culture change that people want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) backtracks on previous comments regarding former President Donald Trump&#8217;s electability. While reiterating criticisms of Trump, Sununu maintained his endorsement of Nikki Haley for the 2024 presidential primary during an interview on ABC News&#8217;s This Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":2220878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24046705842841-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2220877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24046705842841-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220877","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\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}