CONCORD, N.H. - A Republican running to flip a blue Senate seat in a crucial battleground state is flipping the script on the Democrats' anti-incumbent argument. Sununu, the GOP Senate nominee who's running to return to Capitol Hill after 18 years away, charges that his Democratic rival, Rep. Chris Pappas, has "been in Washington for 8 years and hasn't delivered for New Hampshire." Sununu and Pappas are facing off in the midterm election in the battle to succeed retiring longtime Democratic Sen.
Jeanne Shaheen in a race that's one of roughly a dozen that will determine if Republicans hold their control of the Senate. "He has attempted very little in Congress. He's accomplished even less," Sununu said in an exclusive Fox News Digital interview this week, as he blasted Pappas, a four-term congressman.
THESE 12 MIDTERM RACES WILL DETERMINE IF REPUBLICANS HOLD THE SENATE Sununu was interviewed ahead of a move by the Cook Political Report, a top nonpartisan campaign handicapper, to shift the race in New Hampshire from lean Democrat to toss-up. Earlier this month another leading nonpartisan handicapper, Inside Elections, also changed their rating to toss-up. It was a rare move in favor of the Republicans amid a political cycle where the GOP is facing traditional political headwinds for the party in power in DC.
Republicans are also confronting an extremely rough political climate fueled by persistent inflation, soaring fuel prices due to the ongoing war with Iran, and President Donald Trump's underwater approval ratings. Part of it is his last name, which is a political brand in New Hampshire. Sununu, served six years as governor before heading to Washington, D.C. as then-President George H.W.
Bush's White House chief of staff. And one of his younger brothers, Chris Sununu, recently served eight years as governor before taking a break from politics. But also boosting Sununu, his strategy to blast Pappas as a do-nothing member of Congress during another anti-incumbent election cycle, which is a turn of the tables on the Democrats' playbook.
CHECK OUT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS IN THE BATTLE FOR THE SENATE "He's been on the Transportation Committee for 8 years, and New Hampshire is dead last in highway funding in New England. That hurts New Hampshire. His ineffectiveness is doing damage to the state because we're not getting the support we need from Washington," Sununu claimed.
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