{"id":989244,"date":"2021-11-09T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=989244"},"modified":"2021-11-09T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:13:49","slug":"chris-sununu-rejects-senate-bid-says-he-will-run-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-sununu-rejects-senate-bid-says-he-will-run-for-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sununu Rejects Senate Bid, Says He Will Run For Re-Election"},"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\">22<\/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-rejects-senate-bid-says-he-will-run-for-re-election%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=989244&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--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"40.101193705914\">\n<p>New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu officially declined to run for Senate Tuesday morning, opting instead to run for re-election in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Sununu\u2019s decision is a blow to national Republicans who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/On-the-Trail-42050703\">publicly pressured<\/a> him to run against incumbent Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan and increase the GOP\u2019s chances of retaking the equally divided chamber. Sununu was re-elected in 2020 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/results-new-hampshire-governor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">65%<\/a> of the vote, outrunning former President Donald Trump by 20 points and cruising to a third two-year term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy responsibility is not to the gridlock and politics of Washington, it is to the citizens of New Hampshire,\u201d he said during a <a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/9ajhI7jr_e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press conference<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019d rather push myself 120 miles an hour delivering wins for New Hampshire than just slow down and end up on Capitol Hill debating partisan politics without results. That\u2019s why I\u2019m going to run for a fourth term.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/12\/republicans-won-trump-failed-outperform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Republicans Prevailed Where Trump Failed)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7155397\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7155397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Maggie Hassan speaks at a Homeland Security hearing earlier this year. (Shawn Thew-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Sununu leads a state that Trump twice lost, he was more accepting of the former president than fellow blue state governors like Charlie Baker of Massachusetts or Larry Hogan of Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a Trump guy, through and through,\u201d Sununu once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhmagazine.com\/why-exactly-is-sununu-so-popular-in-nh\/\">declared<\/a> as Democrats\u2019 efforts to oust him began to take shape.<\/p>\n<p>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/28\/new-hampshire-poll-joe-biden-chris-sununu-maggie-hassan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">polls<\/a> showed a close race had Sununu announced a Senate bid, with some giving him an outright edge. One <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/03\/maggie-hassan-chris-sununu-new-hampshire-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll<\/a> from September found him up nine points against Hassan, leading 49-40 against the first-term senator and former governor.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu officially declined to run for Senate Tuesday morning, opting instead to run for re-election in 2022.Sununu\u2019s decision is a blow to national &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989244","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}