New Hampshire Gov. Sununu tells Biden, Democrats to ‘pound sand,’ state not moving 2024 primary

A defiant New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) mentioned he won’t permit a change in his state’s first-in-the-nation presidential major, telling Democrats and President Joe Biden to “pound sand.”

In forceful feedback, Sununu additionally rejected claims that his state doesn’t have a inhabitants that displays the variety of the nation, and he mocked Democrats for favoring South Carolina as the primary major state, calling the choice a payoff to pals, presumably Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), who helped Biden take the 2020 state major.

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“Why is he going to South Carolina? As a result of his buddies are there. It is actually a really blatant private political payback to his pals that supported him and turned his nomination round. That is the worst cause to select a state to have such political and electoral duty,” mentioned Sununu, himself contemplating a bid for the GOP presidential nomination.

New Hampshire has a state regulation requiring it to carry the primary major within the nation. The Democrats have requested it to vary the date so South Carolina may go first.

“We aren’t,” Sununu mentioned at an occasion on Tuesday evening hosted by Harvard College’s Institute of Politics. “We’re nonetheless having the first. The state doesn’t do what the Democrat Occasion says. Our major might be possible the third week in January,” he mentioned.

When requested to vary the date, Sununu mentioned he wrote a transparent, although “snarky,” letter again on the request proposed by the Democrats and Biden.

“Go pound sand. You’re loopy. I dare you,” he mentioned he instructed the Democratic Occasion, including, “I laid it out to Biden, the horrible mistake he’s made.”

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He additionally ripped the argument that South Carolina represents the occasion higher. He identified that, numerous or not, South Carolina residents are poor voters.

“You already know what they mentioned? South Carolina is extra racially numerous, now we have a extra numerous voting base. They’ve barely 15% voter participation. What is the level of range in case you do not encourage individuals to get out and vote? I’ve 50-plus % voter participation, wealthy, poor inside metropolis, rural, black, white, it does not matter what colour. All people participates in New Hampshire,” he argued.