The latest gubernatorial swipe from the former president was met with counterpunches and a visual aid as New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu pondered with a hashtag, “WhyAreYouSoObsessedWithMe.”
The Granite State governor has remained upfront throughout the 2024 GOP presidential primary about his objective to prevent former President Donald Trump from becoming the nominee. To that end, Sununu’s backing of former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley became both fodder and a sticking point for the president prompting the callout, “One of us has never lost an election.”
Sununu’s blunt jab came on the heels of Trump’s all caps Truth Social reaction to polling that suggested the oft-touted dominant lead of 50 or 60 points in the national and state contests might actually be a narrow and wholly surmountable margin, specifically in New Hampshire.
“FAKE NEW HAMPSHIRE POLL WAS RELEASED ON BIRDBRAIN. JUST ANOTHER SCAM! RATINGS CHALLENGED FOXNEWS WILL PLAY IT TO THE HILT. SUNUNU NOW ONE OF THE LEAST POPULAR GOVERNORS IN U.S. REAL POLL TO FOLLOW,” the president leveled, targeting Haley, Sununu and Fox News which had covered the American Research Group poll that put the ambassador at 29%, just behind Trump at 33% with roughly a month left until the New Hampshire Primary.
Captioning writer Ed Tarnowski’s take that “Someone sounds nervous about New Hampshire!” Sununu responded to the president’s Friday morning post with his own style of cutting remarks.
“One of us has never lost an election. The other currently polls at 40% in NH and apparently doesn’t know how to turn his caps lock off,” he wrote citing other poll numbers before adding, “#WhyAreYouSoObsessedWithMe.”
Included in the post was a graphic of “America’s Most Popular Governors” that featured Sununu in a tie for third highest approval rating at 64% and in fourth place overall as a result of a 29% disapproval rating. He placed behind Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R), Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) and Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D).
One of us has never lost an election.
The other currently polls at 40% in NH and apparently doesn’t know how to turn his caps lock off. #WhyAreYouSoObsessedWithMe https://t.co/g3L8FJvtV3 pic.twitter.com/n2uLWtOMir
— Chris Sununu (@ChrisSununu) December 22, 2023
The tactic used against Sununu had already been employed by Trump against Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds after she had leveraged her electoral victory of roughly 20 points in Nov. 2022 as weight in support of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
In response to the high-profile endorsement in the Hawkeye State, Trump had referred to Reynolds as “the worst governor in the country” and contended her “endorsement didn’t mean anything.”
Despite that, his campaign recently began running ads in Iowa that the governor slammed as “misleading” as they showed her endorsement of the president during his 2016 and 2020 general election campaigns.
“It’s misleading and it’s not fair to Iowans,” she told Fox News Digital during an interview in Bettendorf, Iowa. “He came in, he was upset with me because I was gonna stay neutral at the beginning of the campaign for the first-in-the-nation caucus, which I did for seven months.”
Iowa governor calls Trump campaign ad using her own words ‘misleading’: ‘It’s a different day’ https://t.co/7rbzXj2SQH via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) December 19, 2023
“Then he said that that support, endorsement, didn’t mean anything. It was worthless. He said I was the worst governor in the country,” she went on.
Reactions from all camps flooded the comment section of Sununu’s post perhaps best summed up by former Americans for Prosperity director of grassroots operations in New Hampshire Chris Maidment who shared a GIF from “The Dark Knight” that captured the rapidly heating primary race.
— Chris Maidment (@ChrisMaidmentNH) December 22, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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