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On NH Today, Sununu Responds After Biden Invokes Him to Criticize GOP Sens

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Sununu explains that Biden misrepresented his reasons for not running for the Senate.

“I didn’t call the Republicans a do-nothing party. I called the Senate, all one hundred of them, do-nothings.”

In an interview with WGIR’s Chris Ryan, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu reacts to President Biden saying that the Governor chose to not run for the Senate because he didn’t want to be part if the Republican effort to block the Biden agenda; assesses President Biden’s first year in office; makes a short list of President Biden’s shortcomings; gives some suggestions to the Biden team; explains why he got involved in the Harmony Montgomery case; talks about his expected level of involvement in his friend Chuck Morse’s campaign for US Senate in 2022; predicts how big a role President Trump will have in the 2022 elections; and estimates how long the omicron variant will be with us.

Governor Sununu clarified his reasons for choosing to seek reelection and to not run for the Senate and his less than flattering description of the Senate.

“I didn’t call the Republicans a do-nothing party. I called the Senate, all one hundred of them, do-nothings.”

The Governor went on to express his frustration with both parties being unwilling to look for common ground and to get things done. Governor Sununu gives his support to the Senate filibuster rule which he explains is designed to promote making compromises.

President Biden promised during the campaign that he would be able to bring people together, he was asked in his press conference if he was asked if he over promised. The President responded that he has overperformed.

Governor Sununu feels that the President missed his chance to work with key Republican Senators by letting his legislative team take a hardline approach which has brought us to this impasse. The Governor considers Biden’s claim to have exceeded expectations to be laughable.

“There is nobody in America who thinks that Joe Biden has overperformed.”

The Governor described a number of President Biden’s shortcomings: inflation is at a forty year high, with no end in sight; the COVID issue is still there, with continuous, confusing messaging; the chaos at the southern border continues; and supply chain problems go unsolved.

Yesterday, President Biden answered questions from the press corps for the first time in eighty days. Governor Sununu feels that the President’s team is controlling him too much and preventing him from developing a rhythm in dealing with the press.

Governor Sununu was asked why he chose to get personally involved in the case of Harmony Montgomery, a seven-year-old girl who has been missing for two years. Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, who resided in Manchester, NH had a serious criminal record, but he was given custody of Harmony by a Massachusetts court.

Usually, political figures avoid getting involved in thorny legal cases like this one, but Governor Sununu explains why he decided to jump into the Harmony Montgomery Case.

“I‘m angry at what happened. There are still a lot of questions to be answered. There are a lot of areas where the system failed.”

Governor Sununu and Governor Baker of Massachusetts are both examining how the child protective services of both states gave custody of an innocent five-year-old girl to a man like Adam Montgomery. The Governor has ordered an internal review of the New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF). 

This week, Chuck Morse, the President of the New Hampshire State Senate, announced the start of his run against Senator Maggie Hassan in 2022. Governor Sununu praises Morse’s abilities, but he will not endorse him at this point.

Governor Sununu projects that the 2022 elections will be about local issues, not Donald Trump. The local candidates, himself included, will drive the messages in the campaigns.

In the final segment of the interview, Governor Sununu estimates that the omicron variant will be with us for a few more weeks with a drop off in about five weeks. The Governor believes that winning the war against COVID will require clearer messaging and planning from federal government agencies like the CDC-Center for Disease Control.


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