New Hampshire&#8217;s Republican Governor Chris Sununu will not run for re-election in 2024.
Sununu, who had previously <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/05/sununu-passes-on-presidential-campaign-00100214" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mulled</a> a presidential bid, announced that he would not run for the governorship Wednesday in an email to supporters, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/19/new-hampshire-sununu-no-reelection-2024-00107071" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>.
“After discussions with Valerie and the kids and much consideration, I have decided not to run for another term as Governor in 2024,” Sununu wrote. “Public service should never be a career, and the time is right for another Republican to lead our great state.”
Sununu is currently in his fourth term, being first elected in <a href="https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/governor/new-hampshire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2016</a>. New Hampshire elects governors to two-year terms and does not impose term limits on them. Sununu hinted at his retirement during a June interview on WEEI’s &#8220;The Greg Hill Show.&#8221;
“Could I win again? Of course. But it’s [public] service, and someone else needs to kind of take the mantle,” Sununu told Hill.
Chris Sununu is popular in the Granite State, <a href="https://scholars.unh.edu/survey_center_polls/728/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasting</a> a 66% approval rating and winning each election with sizable majorities in <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/new-hampshire/governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020</a> and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/results/new-hampshire/governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a>, even as Republicans lost in the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/state/new-hampshire/president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presidential</a> and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/results/new-hampshire/senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> races in New Hampshire.
Despite Sununu’s electoral success, the Democratic Governors Association <a href="https://twitter.com/emmaobrien1496/status/1681703874355134481?s=46&amp;t=h2osjeatDG_bQhXArEDDhg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that voters “know it’s time for a change” after “four terms of Sununu&#8217;s failures on worsening problems — like the housing crisis, attacks on public education and harmful abortion restrictions.”
Sununu’s retirement has heated up the election in New England’s only purple state, and Democrats see this as their best opportunity in eight years to retake the governorship. Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig and Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington have already declared their candidacies. 
Former New Hampshire state Senate President Chuck Morse announced his campaign for governor immediately following Sununu’s announcement. Morse ran for U.S. Senate in 2022, but lost the GOP primary to Trump-backed Don Bolduc, who lost to incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).
Former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) <a href="https://twitter.com/KellyAyotte/status/1681713220770201603" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thanked</a> Sununu for his leadership in a Twitter post, and hinted that she may jump into the race.
“Our next Governor must be a tough and tested conservative who will fight to ensure that New Hampshire remains safe, prosperous, and free. I look forward to announcing some big news in the coming days,” Ayotte wrote. “Like many Granite Staters, I fear that we are one election away from turning into Massachusetts.”
Ayotte refused to endorse then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016 and lost her Senate seat the same year. She previously served as the state’s attorney general and <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/2005/04-1144" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> in favor of the state’s parental notification abortion law before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ayotte is the frontrunner in the Republican primary, with a New Hampshire Journal <a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Afd47a15c-de0e-372f-af9c-953f8dca347a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> showing her leading Morse by 40 points. An Ayotte-affiliated PAC has also raised $414,000 for a gubernatorial bid, according to the <a href="https://nhjournal.com/ayottes-kelly-pac-reports-414k-in-new-filing-as-potential-gov-race-looms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal</a>.
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball has <a href="https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2024-rating-changes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved</a> this race from “Likely Republican” to “Toss-Up.”

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