Republicans like Chris Sununu once over-performed in blue and purple states. He’s leaving, and there aren’t many more left.
Moderate Republican governors long found success in blue states, particularly in the Northeast, by appealing across party lines and providing a check on Democratic-led legislatures. In recent years, they’ve consistently polled as some of the most popular state executives in the country. And they’ve won reelection in their states by wide margins.
It got to the point in Massachusetts where Baker — the stratospherically popular two-term governor and vocal Trump critic — ran a real risk of losing last year’s GOP gubernatorial primary to a conservative former state representative backed by Trump. And that’s despite Republicans knowing Baker could have easily won a third term.
Sununu faced both a different governing landscape in New Hampshire, where the two legislative chambers are almost evenly split between parties, and a different relationship with the GOP base. He called Trump “fucking crazy” at a glitzy Washington D.C. dinner last spring and still breezed through his gubernatorial primary that fall. He won reelection to a fourth two-year term in November by 15 points.
But Sununu’s exit threatens to grow the power vacuum that Baker and Hogan created in a region that was once a stronghold for both moderate Republicans and an increasingly bygone way of bipartisan politicking — particularly if Scott, the Vermont governor who won a fourth term last year by his“I have Republicans in my Legislature. I’m not forced to do anything. I just know it’s good business to work across the aisle when I can, it’s just a good way to get stuff done,” Sununu said.
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