Republican Chris Sununu is OUT for 2024: New Hampshire says he WON'T run for ... trends now
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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu announced Monday he will stay out of the increasingly crowded Republican presidential primary – saying former President Donald Trump can't win and cautioning other contenders not to enable him.
'The stakes are too high for a crowded field to hand the nomination to a candidate who earns just 35 percent of the vote, and I will help ensure this does not happen,' he wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post, in a reference to Trump's seeming lock on a base chunk of GOP voters.
Sununu, who has been critical of Trump in a series of TV interviews, including on CNN, said his party was on a 'collision course toward electoral irrelevance,' citing defeats in 2020 and disappointments in off-year elections.
He delivered much of his criticism not at Trump but at the bevy of people running to challenge him – with a number that could grow to a dozen this week.
He spoke on a day when former Vice President Mike
