Recently reelected Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) said Sunday that the outcome of the midterm elections was a “rejection of extremism.”
“Candidate quality matters,” and a lot of Republicans were painted as extremists, Sununu said on ABC’s This Week.
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“When you have a product, you can’t let the other side define you,” he said. “Ultimately, I think the Democrats did a very good job of defining a lot of these candidates before they even had a chance to introduce themselves.”
Sununu defeated Democratic state Sen. Tom Sherman on Nov. 8 to win a fourth term as New Hampshire’s governor. Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc, however, lost to Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH). Bolduc was characterized as an “election denier” in an endorsement by former President Donald Trump.
Sununu said he believed the “extremism that’s out there scared people” and that this election was “a rejection of that extremism.”
“America has been asking for more moderation for quite some time,” GOP Gov. Chris Sununu tells @GStephanopoulos.
“There’s just certain parts of the Republican Party that haven’t listened so well…It’s not an unfixable. We just got to get back to basics.” https://t.co/LOTxoKuW3J pic.twitter.com/W4vq2ALVnk
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 14, 2022
He said the attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), was something that made voters say “enough of this” and choose candidates who were going to “work across the aisle.”
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The New Hampshire governor added that this desire for compromise was nothing new, noting that in 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden was seen as the most centrist of the candidates running on the Democratic ticket.
“America has been asking for more moderation for quite some time,” Sununu said. “There’s just … certain parts of the Republican Party that haven’t listened so well. It’s not unfixable. We’ve just got to get back to basics.”
