新罕布什尔州州长克里斯·苏努努周日表示正在考虑参选2024年共和党总统候选人提名。
苏努努告诉美国广播公司“本周”的联合主持人乔纳森·卡尔说:“我肯定会考虑这件事，并进行这些对话。”
这位刚刚以压倒性优势连任第四届任期的州长说，“信息是新的领导”，并吹嘘自己在经营他所谓的美国“最有效”的州政府方面的记录
“但最终，你会看到很多共和党人加入竞选，”他说。“他们都是真正的好人。他们是很好的候选人。...你必须讨论我们将何去何从，无论是作为一个政党，还是作为一个国家。”
2024年共和党竞争者的领域已经包括前总统唐纳德·川普，而前南卡罗莱纳州州长妮基·黑利预计会宣布她自己的出价本月晚些时候，消息人士告诉ABC新闻。
特朗普的直言不讳的批评者苏努努对他的大选机会表示怀疑。“他可以获得提名，但他无法完成，”苏努努说。
他指出，在2022年的中期选举中，特朗普支持的几名主要候选人表现不佳，这是特朗普当选可能性担忧的一个迹象。自称“坚持自由市场原则的共和党人”的苏努努说，该党应该专注于寻找一位不太分裂的保守派候选人。
“我试图向共和党人支持的是，‘看，我们想投票给最保守的候选人，他能在11月获胜，并在25年内完成任务，’”他说。
苏努努说，他的个人愿景是这样的:“我认为政府必须离开你的方式。我们在新罕布什尔州做得非常非常好。我们在全国范围内分享这种模式。”
苏努努认为，乔·拜登总统的白宫所缺乏的是好的领导力，这两者都是拜登的错因为他对中国侦察气球的反应上周飞过这个国家，苏努努说对经济不真实的描述。
“走进一家杂货店，和卖麦片的人聊聊天。他们感觉如何?你知道，他们对总统的领导能力有信心吗?不，”苏努努说。他举了一个例子新的ABC新闻/华盛顿邮报调查十分之四的美国人认为在拜登的领导下，经济状况变得更糟。
“最好的领导是向内看，说‘我们做得对吗?“我们做错了什么，对吗，”如果我们不承认这个问题，我们就不能解决它，”苏努努说，并补充说，“你需要看到华盛顿更多的这种情况。"
拜登政府的走近中国气球苏努努说，在它进入美国几天后就暴露了它的存在，然后于周六在大西洋上空将其击落，“太少，太晚了”。
美国官员说，他们推迟了任何军事反应，以防止伤害平民，并采取措施限制任何情报风险。
“还是那句话，你得有领导能力。你必须透明。你必须快速行动，”苏努努说。
当被问及拜登周二的国情咨文时，苏努努认为，随着国家从新冠肺炎疫情中复苏，这位总司令将错误地将当前的经济进步归功于自己，这场带来了大范围的失业。
苏努努说，他预计拜登将把失业率保持在几十年来的最低水平，但“在疫情之后，这并不是很难。”
苏努努说，吹嘘通货膨胀率下降(目前年同比通胀率为6.5%)同样是自私的。“通货膨胀率创历史新高，当然它正在下降，”他说。“已经高得不能再高了。”
“价格不会回到原来的水平。我知道拜登政府喜欢假装这样，”苏努努说，并预测经济将走向多年的所谓“滞胀”，即成本上升限制增长。
尽管他对拜登提出了尖锐的批评，但苏努努表示，他仍然不认为特朗普能在2024年的复赛中击败他。
“特朗普将被视为一个非常极端的候选人，”苏努努说。"这个国家将对此进行反击。"
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu 'definitely thinking about' 2024 presidential run
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said Sunday that he is considering a run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
"I'm definitely thinking about it and having those conversations," Sununu told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
The governor, who was just overwhelmingly reelected to a fourth term, said "the message is new leadership" and touted his own track record running what he called the "most efficient" state government in the U.S.
"But at the end of the day, you're going to have a lot of Republicans that get in that race," he said. "They're all really good people. They're really good candidates. ... And you got to have that discussion about where we're going to go, both as a party and make sure we're going there as a country."
The field of 2024 GOP contenders already includes former President Donald Trump while former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is expected to announce her own bid later this month, sources have told ABC News.
Sununu, a vocal Trump critic, is skeptical of his general election chances. "He could get the nomination, but he can't get it done," Sununu said.
He pointed to the 2022 midterm elections, where several major Trump-backed candidates fell short, as a sign of Trump's electability concerns. Sununu, a self-described "free-market principled Republican," said the party should focus on finding a conservative candidate who isn't too divisive.
"What I've tried to espouse to with Republicans is, 'Look, we want to vote for the most conservative candidate that can win in November and get stuff done in '25,'" he said.
Sununu said that his personal vision was this: "I believe government has to get out of your way. And we've done it really, really well here in New Hampshire. We're sharing that model across the country."
Good leadership is what is lacking out of President Joe Biden's White House, Sununu argued, faulting Biden both for his response to a Chinese reconnaissance balloon flying over the country last week and what Sununu said was a disingenuous picture of the economy.
"Go into a grocery store and just talk to people in the cereal aisle. What are they feeling? You know, do they feel confident about this leadership that the president? No," Sununu said. He cited a new ABC News/Washington Post survey that four in 10 Americans feel financially worse off under Biden.
"The best leadership is one that looks inside, says, 'What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong, right?' If we don't acknowledge the problem, we can't fix it," Sununu said, adding, "You need to see more of that out of Washington."
The Biden administration's approach to the Chinese balloon, revealing its presence days after it entered the U.S. and then shooting it down over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, was "too little, too late," Sununu said.
U.S. officials have said they delayed any military response to prevent hurting civilians and took steps to limit any intelligence risk.
"Again, you have to have leadership. You have to be transparent. You have to be fast-acting," Sununu said.
When asked about Biden's State of the Union address on Tuesday, Sununu contended that the commander-in-chief will wrongly take credit for current economic progress as the country recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought widespread job loss.
Sununu said he expects Biden to tout the unemployment rate, at a decades-low, but "after a pandemic, that wasn't very hard."
Boasting about declining inflation, which is now at a year-over-year rate of 6.5%, would be similarly self-serving, Sununu said. "Inflation was at a record high -- of course it's coming down," he said. "It couldn't have gotten any higher."
"The prices are not going to go back to where they were. I know the Biden administration likes to pretend that," Sununu said, predicting that the economy would be headed for years of so-called "stagflation," in which rising costs limit growth.
Despite his sharp criticisms of Biden, Sununu said he still doesn't think Trump can win against him in a 2024 rematch.
"Trump is going to be seen as a very extreme candidate," Sununu said. "The country is going to push back against it."
