Chris Sununu, the governor of New Hampshire, appeared on “The View” on ABC and won over viewers by adopting a “centrist” posture in contrast to the presenters’ leftist viewpoints.
Why do Republicans always choose for a “centrist” strategy that never seems to succeed? The fact is that this approach doesn’t work with conservatives or Democrats, leaving Republicans without a strong base of support. Republicans should put their energy on developing a separate program that accurately reflects their ideas rather than attempting to appeal to everyone.
Every presidential election involves candidates hoping to represent “unity” and win over voters from all political persuasions. History, however, demonstrates that no one has ever been able to accomplish this elusive aim.
The well-liked governor Sununu wants to be this election’s mediocre loser. Though he hasn’t officially announced, rumors say he’s really contemplating it. His prior visit on “The View,” which improved his odds, foreshadows his campaign approach.
On Thursday, Sununu reached many “agreements” with leftist presenters during his appearance. According to him, Republicans shouldn’t “attack” the transgender movement and abortion shouldn’t be a topic of discussion. Additionally, he did not refute the incorrect claim that the “assault weapons ban” of the 1990s stopped mass shootings, which is blatantly wrong.
Political experts foresaw that former President Donald Trump would not have any chance of winning in the elections in 2024. However, his argument turned out to be feeble and unpersuasive near the end of his presentation.
Chris Sununu, the governor of New Hampshire, was elected for the first time in 2016; the Republicans have governed the state legislature since 2021. Despite this, the state has a varied voting history due to its “Live Free or Die” mindset. The state narrowly supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, but eventually backed President Joe Biden in 2020. New Hampshire is today seen as a politically diverse state as a result of this.
For instance, Sununu concurred with host Whoopi Goldberg’s inaccurate portrayal of the discussion on unsuitable literature in classrooms at the beginning of the appearance. The first query from Goldberg was, “Are you OK with parents deciding what their kids should be reading, and not the government?’
Sununu jumped at the chance to support Goldberg’s argument, adding, “Parents come first, absolutely. End of story.”
Despite parents speaking out against such content, left-wing school boards around the U.S. are promoting sexually explicit and gay-themed materials in elementary schools. Parents who want their children to acquire a quality education are not represented by this distorted depiction. The voices of worried parents are being disregarded by the radical left-leaning school boards.
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Regarding publications judged inappropriate for young people in school, Florida is taking action. Despite their removal, no state has outright banned these works.
Then Sununu continued,
“You do you. Do I disagree with what some school boards do? Yep. But, I’m the governor, you’re the voter, you’re smarter than me. You know what your school needs, you know what your business needs, you know what your community needs. My job is to set up doors of opportunity so you can make the choices. And guess what? If [school boards] make the wrong choice, go fire them. Go vote at the school board, get them out of office and bring somebody else in there. That’s the power that individuals have in changing the process.
“This whole idea that you’re going to have one president to solve your problems. No. Or one governor that’s going to take care of everything, our side’s gonna win. No way, that is so old-school thinking, and I think both parties have realized that really don’t work. So, keep it local,” he added.
When Governor Sununu talked about parental engagement in school board elections, everyone on “The View” thought it sounded terrific. The far left, nevertheless, doesn’t adhere to this principle. Without regard for local governance or parental involvement, they try to impose their radical beliefs at the federal level. Governor Sununu is unable to understand that merely casting a ballot in school board elections won’t end the problem. We should still cast our votes in such elections, though. Sununu’s strategy ultimately fails to adequately address the problem.
Additionally, Sununu attacked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, claiming that the upcoming presidential race “can’t be about a culture war.”
“Like, this has to be about inflation,” he said. “When I hear someone running for president and they don’t talk about inflation — which is the worst tax on the poor you could ever create — and it’s only government-created, by the way. The only thing that creates inflation is presidents spending more money, that’s it.”
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Sununu then reportedly gave in to Sunny Hostin’s charge that Republicans are “attacking the trans community.”
“Well, yeah,” Sununu pandered. “Good leaders shouldn’t be attacking anybody. We should be raising people up. Right? I mean that’s what it’s all about.”
Don’t be deceived; political groups that aggressively pushed their agenda on students were the ones who started the current discussion regarding transgender issues. Let’s distinguish truth from fiction.
Republicans and parents only reacted when the left started introducing gender ideology into public education, forcing girls to compete in “girls” sports against faster, stronger, and more powerful boys, and starting to overstuff school libraries with sexually explicit books in an effort to break down our kids’ resistance to having sex with adults.
Sununu appears to be skeptical about Trump’s chances of winning a primary and gaining the nomination. He contends that the backing of the “MAGA base” could not be sufficient to ensure the win.
“The true MAGA base, I would say — like I don’t like using that term, but — is about 30 percent. I think that’s about what it is. When you see polls now, the former president might pull at 55, maybe even 60 percent.” According to Sununu, the ordinary Republican truly only backs Trump because liberals are “beat up” on him.
“The guy’s playing the victim card,” Sununu said. “Donald Trump is playing the victim card, how crazy is that? But the media has allowed it to happen, the rhetoric has allowed it to happen, so, will that translate to a vote nine months from now? No!”
In the event that Trump is the nominee, he even went so far as to suggest, “Well, I might vote for Joe Biden” in the 2024 election.
“If Trump were to make the ballot, first off, he can’t win in November, that’s for darn sure,” he said. “So, it’s got to be someone other than Trump because mathematically there’s no way, he wouldn’t win Georgia. That’s a fact. If you’re a Republican and you can’t win Georgia, we gotta move on.”
Sununu said that Trump’s “worst part” is that “he drags everyone else down,” and claimed that as a result of Trump, the GOP lost “three or four” governorships and the majority in the U.S. Senate.
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“Any Republican talking about a national abortion ban is just screwing the party over, altogether. And I really mean that,” he said.
While wrapping off the visit with Sununu, host Sunny Hostin allowed exaggerated comments about mass shootings to go unchecked.
“In the last 145 days, we’ve had 241 mass shootings in this country,” Hostin blathered.
Are forecasts for mass shootings actually accurate? Not exactly. There is a chance that the frequent reports are exaggerated. The statistics frequently take into account gang-related violence and instances that don’t even end in fatalities. Additionally, a lot of these estimations don’t fully adhere to the requirement that a “mass shooting” result in four or more fatalities. As a result of how broadly some statistics define their criteria, their veracity is called into doubt.
Hostin continued, “As governor, you’ve loosened gun laws in your state, and you hold an ‘A’ rating from the NRA.”
Then Hostin cited Sununu as saying, “There’s no law you’re going to pass that’s going to stop mass shootings. There’s no law you’re going to pass that’s just going to magically stop gun violence.”
Hostin nevertheless added, “However, there was a law that was passed, and that law was passed in 1997 and it was a federal assault weapons ban. And it cut it, the 1994, rather, and it cut gun violence by 70 percent. And the minute it was reinstated — mass shootings — and the minute it was reinstated they went up. Why not put that law back in?”
Hostin made several incorrect statements there, not the least of which was the use of the phrase “reinstated” when she really meant to say that the statute had expired. (She most likely intended “repealed,” which it wasn’t. It simply expired and lost effect in 2004 due to a sunset clause.)
Exaggerated assertions that it reduced mass shootings by 70% have subsequently been refuted by several studies, including one conducted in 2020 by the liberal Rand Corp., which found no solid proof that the ban had any effect on gun violence. According to a different research by Quinnipiac University’s Mark Gius that was released in 2014, the impacts of assault weapon restrictions “on the overall murder rate are probably minimal at best,” as The Washington Post reported the previous year.
Sununu does not refute Hostin’s numerous untrue assertions in the public record.
“We did not have the mass shootings in the 1990s that we have today,” Sununu stated as he started to respond. “It’s exponentially worse.”
“If your argument is, ‘If we just have more gun bans and more gun laws’ Chicago would be the safest place in the country. They have the most restrictive laws,” he said.
Hostin, though, was not content. “But the problem with that argument is that the guns that they use in Chicago are coming from states that have looser gun laws.”
Likewise false is this. Despite having among of the nation’s strongest gun prohibitions, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, “most of the traced guns, about 16,500 of them, were bought from somewhere within Illinois, with about 8,200 more coming from Indiana. Wisconsin, Kentucky and Mississippi each was the source of fewer than 2,000 guns.”
Sununu stays quiet when Hostin makes a fraudulent assertion.
“OK, so if your argument is that we should ban something federally, I remind you, the Democrats had the House, the Senate and the presidency for two years, they did nothing.”
Then he declared that his state is the “safest state in the country.” He said that the issue with mass shootings is one of mental health, not of firearms.
“I have the safest state in the country,” he said. “You can talk about the validity, the merit of the law based on the results it gets. I have the safest state in the country, so, why aren’t we having the mass shootings? It’s not because people have access to guns, it’s because we’re not dealing with mental health, we don’t provide mental health access with kids, when people are in crisis they have nowhere to turn, they resort to violence. We don’t do the right things in terms of locking down our schools and protecting them, the core of the issue is mental health.”
Then, as usual, Joy Behar intervened to attack the AR-15, which she incorrectly referred weapon as “The automatic rifle that kills a bunch of children who are just going to school.” The “AR” in AR-15 stands for “Armalite Rifle,” not “automatic rifle.” The weapon isn’t even “automatic.” It’s semi-automatic.
“I’m not banning any guns,” Sununu insisted. “I’m going to provide access to mental health, we’re going to get at the core of the issue of what spurs a lot of the violence.”
De facto head host Goldberg quickly put an end to the “The View” audience’s hostile booing of Sununu.
“No, no,” she scolded. “No booing. We need to talk to people to find out what they’re thinking and are they thinking in the right way? He’s not gonna be perfect, none of them are. But at least give people the opportunity to say what’s going on.”
Sununu tried his hardest to win over “The View’s” viewers, but his attempts were ineffective. The show’s attempt to appear as “moderates” was revealed by its own audience, who haven’t changed their political views.
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