Donald Trump won't be happy about this…
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) reportedly plans to endorse former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley for president Tuesday evening.
Sununu's political team released a media advisory early Tuesday morning announcing that the governor would join Haley and make remarks at a town hall at 6 p.m. ET at the McIntyre Ski Area in Manchester.
In a statement to Fox News, the governor said “I look forward to joining Nikki at her town hall this evening – it's going to be a lot of fun!”
Longtime New Hampshire-based Republican strategist Jim Merrill told Fox News the endorsement was “a big deal.”
“There's no endorsement in New Hampshire you'd rather have. And it's clear he's going to use it early and often to support Haley.”
“Chris Sununu is the Shohei Otani of New Hampshire politics. He's a remarkably gifted, best-in-class talent. He's our state's most successful and impactful Republican of his generation. So his endorsement of Nikki Haley makes this the best day of her campaign and gives her a heck of a clean up hitter down the stretch,” Merrill emphasized.
Sununu's endorsement of Haley comes a couple of weeks after she landed the endorsement of Americans for Prosperity Action, the political wing of the influential and deep-pocketed fiscally conservative network founded by the billionaire Koch Brothers. (RELATED: Influential Conservative Network Endorses Nikki Haley Ahead Of Iowa Caucus)
Sununu said last month that Trump's “got a floor, but he's also got a ceiling,”
“And when you look at the fact that well over 50% of the Republican core-based voter wants somebody else, the fact that in New Hampshire you can have independents that come out – I believe in record numbers – most of which won't vote for yesterday's news in terms of Donald Trump,” Sununu said.
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