‘He’s Siding With Dictators’: CNN’s Dana Bash Presses Chris Sununu On How He Can Still Vote Trump Over Biden

CNN anchor Dana Bash pressed New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu for vowing to support former President Donald Trump if he’s the GOP nominee despite his harsh criticism.

For the past several months, Sununu has been an outspoken critic of Trump and a prominent advocate of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Trump’s last serious contender for the GOP nomination.

Heading into the South Carolina primary this Saturday, Trump holds a double-digit lead over Haley in her home state with 61.8% support on average, according to Real Clear Politics.

During a Thursday interview on CNN, Sununu agreed with Haley’s recent criticism of Trump’s praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin and for threatening to withdraw U.S. support for NATO.

“Trump is making huge mistakes on an international stage. And there’s a lot of conservatives, a lot of Republicans, a lot of folks in the military going, ‘Whoa, what is going on here?'” Sununu noted.

However, Bash then pressed Sununu on why he is still choosing to support Trump if he gets his party’s nomination over President Joe Biden.

BASH: Despite everything that you just said, take the court cases aside. Just what he said on the international stage. You still will support him as the nominee if he does become your party’s nominee?

SUNUNU: Look, I’m the Republican governor of New Hampshire. I’m going to support the nominee. I’m fighting as hard as I can to make sure that that’s not the case. I think Nikki still has a shot. A lot of folks just want to dismiss her. I think she definitely has a shot. But let’s also remember the average American right now, Trump is winning in some polls because the average American is saying if I made these elitist specific out of Washington, DC, these liberals are standing on the shoulders of how this country was built and defended, telling us how to live our lives. We just want to connect with someone that has a fight. Nikki has that fight and that’s why she’s doing well. Trump is it — just has this brand of 30 years that a lot of folks are going to get behind.

BASH: And I and I understand that analysis. It makes perfect sense. But for you in particular, I guess a lot of people just like Nikki Haley is saying that she would still support him. It’s it’s a bit confounding to how —

SUNUNU: You know, the alternatives. Joe Biden. Right?

BASH: You genuinely think Donald Trump would be a better president…than Joe Biden, despite all of the things that Nikki Haley said that you agree with, like he’s siding with dictators, who kills political opponents and so on and so forth.

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SUNUNU: Look, it’s a primary. We’re going to go out at each other and of course, but at the end of the day, Washington is completely inept and that’s why I’m a governor. I love governors. If you want to see where stuff gets done and where people still have some faith in government, it’s at the governors level, right? That’s one of the reasons why I like Nikki so much. She’s a governor. She understands accountability. She understands that concept. And bringing that to Washington is such an opportunity.

Watch the clip above via CNN.