The best Republicans court another Sunnu for the crucial race of the New Hampshire Senate

There is a Sunnu in New Hampshire who plans a race for the Senate in the mid-term elections next year.

But it was not the former governor Chris Sununu, who considered earlier this year but decided not to launch an offer in the race to succeed in withdrawing the Democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen in the state of Swing of New England.

He is the former senator John E. Sununu, one of the older brothers of Chris Sununu.

The main national Republicans, including the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, organized conversations with the former senator concerning a Senate campaign in 2026, a source told Fox News on Wednesday.

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Former Republican senator John E. Sununu is thinking about a Senate campaign in 2026 in New Hampshire, according to several sources.
(Paul Steinhauser – Foxnews)

A familiar source with conversations confirmed to Fox News that Thune and former senator Cory Gardner, president of the Senate Leadership Fund, who is the best Super Pac supporting the Senate Republicans, recently spoke with Sunnu.

The source added that Thune and Gardner are carefully optimistic that Sunnunu will launch a campaign, in a race that should be competitive and costly.

Sununu, a former representative of three mandates, then defeated Gov. Shaheen in the New Hampshire Senate elections in 2002. But the senator lost to Shaheen in his 2008 revenge match.

Shaheen announced earlier this year that she would not ask for the mid-term re-election of next year, and the Republicans hope to return the siege when they aim not only to defend but also to extend their majority to the Senate.

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The word that Sunnu, which will be 61 years old this month, was reflecting on an offer from the Senate was reported for the first time by Notus.

There are currently two major Republicans in the New Hampshire Senate race.

Former Senator Scott Brown, who was an ambassador to New Zealand during President Donald Trump’s first term at the White House, announced his candidacy in June.

Before its campaign launch, Brown has traveled New Hampshire since the end of last year, meeting republican and conservative groups.

Former Senator Scott Brown, who presents himself for the republican appointment of the Senate in New Hampshire, was interviewed by Fox News Digital, on July 4, 2025 in Exeter, NH (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

A month later, in July, the senator of the GOP state with three mandates, Dan Innis, launched a campaign of the American Senate.

Trump, whose approval in republican primaries is extremely influential, has remained neutral to date.

The veteran republican strategist John Ashbrook, co-host of the popular podcast “ruthless”, told Fox News Digital that “the more candidates entering these races are an indicator that the Republicans are in attack in a great term and that Trump managed to maintain the house of the White House, to maintain the field to maintain the majority, that they should keep the majority.

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The representative of four mandates Chris Pappas, who represents the first district of the State Congress, is the clear precursor of the appointment of the Senate of the Democratic Party.

The Democratic candidate in the Senate in the representative of New Hampshire, Chris Pappas, was interviewed by Fox News Digital, on July 4, 2025 in Portsmouth, NH (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

But the biomedical progressive and scientific organizer Karishma Manzur also presents himself for democratic appointment.

Pappas took social networks On Wednesday, to emphasize that “NH wants that leaders who will resist Trump and special interests to build an economy that works for everyone”.

“Instead, the GOP scratches the bottom of the defaulting candidate barrel. Whether it is the business sale John E. Sununu or Maga Putpet Scott Brown, NH voters will not buy it,” said Pappas.

Republicans of the Senate appreciated a favorable map in the 2024 cycle when they overthrow four seats from blue to red to win back the majority.

But the ruling party – the Republicans – traditionally faced with political -opposite winds in mid -term elections. However, a current reading of the 2026 card indicates that the GOP may be able to take offense in certain key states.

In the battlefield, Georgia, which Trump narrowly carried in the race for the White House of last year, the Republicans consider the senator of the first mandate Jon Ossoff as the most vulnerable democrat in re -election of next year.

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They are also targeting Battleground Michigan, where Democratic Senator Gary Peters retires at the end of next year, as well as New Hampshire.

The Minnesota of the Senate National Republican Committee is the Minnesota, where Democratic Senator Tina Smith does not present herself to re -election.

But the GOP defends an open seat in the battlefield of North Carolina, where the Republican senator Thom Tills decided not to be re -elected.

The Republicans also defend an open seat in Iowa in Red Sensations, after the announcement of Senator Joni Ernst Tuesday that she would not ask for her re -election next year.

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And the Republicans will probably be forced to spend resources to defend Senator Jon Husted from Ohio – who was appointed to succeed the former senator and president now Vice JD Vance – while he faces the former Democratic Sherrod Brown next year.

Meanwhile, the Democrats also aim for the moderate senator Susan Collins – who has not yet announced her expected re -election in 2026 – in Maine à Moyen Bleu.