Trump hints he’d back longtime critic’s bid to flip Dem Senate seat in 2026

It seems to be the president Donald Trump He buried Hatchet when it comes to former New Hampshire Government Chris Sunun, who has been a top Republican critic of the former and current president for years.

Trump now says that he will run for Sunun for Senate 2026 for a place currently holding a demonic Senator Jeanne Shaheen, his former antagonist would have his full support.

Sunun, who ended his fourth and last two -year term of Swing State New Hampshire in January, said Fox News Digital In an interview last month, at which he aimed to make a decision regarding the 2026 campaign. In “the next few weeks.”

He stressed that “I have no doubt that I would have the president’s support” if he decided to make Offer for the Senate.

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Trump, when asked by a journalist about Sununu while she flew to Washington, DC on Sunday night, DC, on the Air Force One ship, revealed that two politicians recently met at the White House.

“I told him – he came to my office, came to an oval office and [I] I met Chris Sununu and I fully support him. I hope it runs, “Trump said.” He has been very nice to me over the last year, but no, I hope he runs. I think they will win that place. “

Sunun supported Trump during the 2016 general elections and again when Trump raised unsuccessfully for the 2020 re -elections. The then governor had a strong employment with Trump’s White House, including close ties with then President Mike Pence.

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However, Sunun pushed away against Trump’s unproven claims 2020. Presidential elections was “equipped” and “stolen”. At the beginning of 2021, he began to state that the GOP was greater than any person, which was understood as moving to the then president.

Sunun enhanced his critique of the former president during numerous national interviews on the Kabbal news and Sunday Talk Show networks, repeatedly claiming that Trump had too much political luggage to get a white house. In addition, Sunun began to think about the possible 2024 White house running His, against which he eventually decided against.

However, he eventually supported and became the superb surrogate of the former GOV of South Carolina. Nikki Haley In 2024 GOP presidential primary. Haley eventually Trump in the nomination race was the last rival.

Trump occasionally returned a fire in Sunun, calling him a “spoiled brother” and a “nasty guy”, among other things.

However, after Trump won the GOP 2024 nomination, Sununa said he would vote for his party’s presidential candidate.

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Earlier this year, Sunun said in a digital interview with Fox News that “Donald Trump is a party boss, and he’s the voice of the Republican Party, and I have to say, I think in the first few months he has been doing a pretty good job.”

As for the potential 2026. Senate running For the seat of the Republic, the Republicans aim to turn from blue to red because they hope to expand their current majority 53-47 in the chamber, Sununa said last month Fox News Digital that “the door opened” for running, “not opened much, to be honest.”

Sunun, who was elected and re -elected to four direct two -year -old seats as a governor, said I “have no doubt I can win”.

The comments of the former governor in recent interviews are a transition from last year, when he said repeatedly that he would not try to run for Senate 2026.

Four years ago, Sunun expressed his interest in running for the Senate against his predecessor as a governor, Democratic senator Maggie Hassan, who was in 2022 for a re -election. The popular governor was strongly united by national Republicans to take over Hassan, but on November 9, he announced that they would announce to Sunun and instead for a four.

In addition, he criticized the Senate strongly. “They discuss and talk and nothing is done,” he said at the time.

Sunun, who left the duty in January with very positive approval and favorable assessments, consider the national Republicans the best candidate for conquering the place. However, he is not the only Republican who thinks about Senate in New Hampshire.

Forms late. Scott Brown Massachusetts, who later lost closely to Shaheen in New Hampshire in the 2014 elections, is seriously considering running in 2026.

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Brown, who served four years as US ambassador to Novi Zealand during Trump’s first administration, has been holding meetings with the Republicans across New Hampshire for several months and has repeatedly met with GOP officials.

Earlier this year, Brown met with top political officials of Trump administration at the White House, sources for Fox News said.

When asked about the president’s comments regarding Sununu, Brown said Fox News in a statement that “he is the president of the party leader, and he has acquired the right to support anyone who supports. There is no way to a republican nomination that ran against candidates supporting President Trump.”

In the race for a nomination of a Novi Hampshire Democratic Senate, four -day Ambassador Chris Pappas formally launched his campaign last week.

Using listening clips, last month he went through all ten counties of New Hampshire, while increasing toward the Senate candidacy, Pappas said the voters felt like “the system set”.

Trump’s spinning the Republicans stronger than ever, but Sununa says that the GOP is still a “party with big ties”

“You are thinking about the Social Insurance Office that will be closed in Littleton, a drastic decrease in Medicaid, all on behalf of the Great Tax Reactions of Billionaires like Elon Musk,“He claimed, as he pointed to Trump’s top donor and the richest person in the world, who leads the controversial reduction in administration administration labor.

Pappas emphasized, “I get angry, because when you talk about a public service, you should be focused on how you can help people, how you can improve people’s lives.”

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Pappas may not have a basic democratic Senate in New Hampshire.

Sources close to Ambassador Maggie Goodlander, another member of the New Hampshire home, said last month that the first term representative considering running Senate.