GOP Gov. Chris Sununu on backing election denier: ‘I do not assume anyone needs to be a one-issue voter’ | CNN Politics

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New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu believes that President Joe Biden gained the 2020 election however is supporting Don Bolduc – a GOP Senate nominee who has constantly pushed election falsehoods – as a result of he’s contemplating a “number of points” in making his alternative on Election Day.

“It’s not only a one-issue – you may’t say, ‘Properly, based mostly on that one situation, we vehemently disagree, so, due to this fact, we shouldn’t be casting our vote.’ I don’t assume anyone needs to be a one-issue voter whatever the situation,” Sununu informed “CNN This Morning” hosts on Tuesday.

Bolduc, a retired Military brigadier basic who’s difficult incumbent Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan, has shifted his solutions associated to false 2020 election claims, although he has nonetheless pushed some falsehoods after securing the Republican nomination to signify the Granite State within the US Senate.

“We’d disagree on what occurred in 2020 or of us are specializing in the conspiracy theories across the 2020 election. On the finish of the day, the overwhelming majority of voters, particularly these unbiased voters that also haven’t made up their thoughts, they’re voting on inflation, they’re voting on the price of items, they’re voting on not with the ability to make their mortgage or discover housing,” mentioned Sununu, who’s in search of reelection.

Current CNN polls performed by SSRS in battleground states have discovered that the economic system is the foremost situation for voters this midterm season, nicely forward of voting rights and election integrity.

Requested by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins if he thinks congressional Republicans and Bolduc have a plan to fight the inflation that they’ve usually cited on the marketing campaign path, Sununu mentioned, “Properly, one factor I’m actually assured of is in the event you ship the identical individuals again to Washington, you ain’t going to get a distinct outcome. Not even shut.”

Sununu, who endorsed one in every of Bolduc’s opponents within the main race, touted Bolduc as a conflict hero who has labored on psychological well being points and mentioned Bolduc desires “to combine issues up.”

“You possibly can’t say that simply by electing the identical previous Democrats you’re going to get a distinct outcome. We would like completely different outcomes throughout this nation and the one method to try this is to deliver a distinct system,” he mentioned.

Sununu additionally condemned a joke made on Monday by Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in regard to the assault on Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband.

“There’s simply no place for it. That is critical,” he mentioned earlier than including, “traces are shifting on either side. This isn’t only one celebration or the opposite.”

Sununu then referred to the alleged plot to homicide conservative Supreme Court docket Justice Brett Kavanaugh in addition to the shootings of GOP Rep. Steve Scalise and Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as proof of escalating violence in American politics.