{"id":42068,"date":"2021-11-09T08:12:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42068"},"modified":"2021-11-09T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T18:13:10","slug":"national-republicans-stunned-by-sununu-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42068","title":{"rendered":"National Republicans stunned by Sununu snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">New Hampshire Gov.\u00a0Chris Sununu\u00a0(R) shocked national Republicans Tuesday by publicly rejecting entreaties to challenge Sen.\u00a0Maggie Hassan\u00a0(D) in next year\u2019s midterm elections, delivering a setback to the GOP\u2019s chances of putting another potentially competitive race on the board at a time when Republicans feel momentum at their back.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference at the state capital in Concord, announced with just a few hours\u2019 notice, Sununu said he\u00a0would run for a fourth two-year term as governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy responsibility is not to the gridlock and politics of Washington, it\u2019s for the citizens of New Hampshire,\u201d Sununu told reporters. \u201cI\u2019d be honored to spend a few more years doing what I love doing with the people that I love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sununu\u2019s comments took Republicans by surprise: He said he had not informed Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0or National Senatorial Campaign Committee chairman Rick Scott (R-Fla.) of his decision, a fact confirmed by sources close to both leaders in Washington.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire Gov.\u00a0Chris Sununu\u00a0(R) shocked national&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42069,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42068\/revisions\/42069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}