MANCHESTER, N.H. — After months of political courtship evenly spread between all of the non-Trump presidential candidates touring the state, New Hampshire’s governor has finally broken his silence on the matter and announced he’s all in on Nikki Haley.
Since the start of the 2024 election cycle, Gov. Chris Sununu has played coy over who he might eventually endorse for the party’s nomination, often making appearances at campaign stops alongside Haley, or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, or ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and then prevaricating when asked if his presence at any particular event was indicative of his endorsement.
On Tuesday, the governor removed all doubt.
“You bet your ass I am, we are all in on Nikki Haley,” he said. “When you look at her poll numbers, when you look at the ground game that Nikki has laid, it’s been absolutely unbelievable.”
Sununu’s vote of confidence comes as Haley surges in early-state polls, pulling past both DeSantis and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy in New Hampshire and South Carolina to claim a very distant second-place spot behind former President Donald Trump.
Haley has a lot of work to do if she wants to catch up to her former boss. Trump, according to polling averages, leads her by 27 points in the Granite State, where the first primary of the election will be held on January 23. She trails him by nearly 50 points nationally.
Sununu and Trump do not have a great relationship, and so it was no surprise that, after endorsing Haley, he said part of his reason for doing so is that it’s time to move on from the past. Haley, unlike Trump, doesn’t come with the “nonsense and drama” that the former president brings to the table, Sununu said.
The former South Carolina governor, Sununu, said, “looks people in the eye and answers their questions.”
“Are we going to settle for the same old thing?” he said. “Thank you for your service, Mr. President, but we’re moving forward.”
Haley spoke…
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