New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) combatted the President’s negative comments about drug addiction issues in his state on Thursday, saying in a statement that President Donald Trump is “wrong” and that his state is already seeing results as it works to end opioid overdose related deaths.
Sununu’s statement:
“The President is wrong. It’s disappointing his mischaracterization of this epidemic ignores the great things this state has to offer.
Our administration inherited one of the worst health crises this state has ever experienced, but we are facing this challenge head on. We have doubled our resources to support prevention, treatment and recovery; dedicated millions to law enforcements efforts to keep drugs out of our state, increased the availability of naloxone, and are rebuilding our prevention programs for our kids.
We are already seeing positive signs of our efforts as overdoses and deaths are declining in key parts of the state. In spite of this crisis, New Hampshire remains the best place to live, work and raise a family.”
Sununu’s statement was prompted by Trump’s claims that he won New Hampshire during the primaries because the state is a “drug-infested den.”
The comments were made to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto during a phone call in January. The transcript of the conversation was obtained by The Washington Post and released Thursday.
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) also shut down Trump’s comments on Twitter, calling his remarks about her state “disgusting.”
Dear Leader – Making friends wherever he goes and whatever he says.
IMPOTUS is getting quite the send-off for his vacation, isn’t he?
I’m sure nothing will happen while he’s away …
DJT, the King of the unforced error. It’s hysterical that one of the outcomes of the leaking of a transcript of a conversation with the President of Mexico is that he has managed to insult New Hampshire.
That’s impressive work there.
The fact that Tillis is sponsoring a bipartisan bill to protect Mueller is a blinking neon sign that those Republicans who still have a tenuous contact with reality recognize how damaging Trump actually is to the Republican Party. It’s evident that Republicans at the state level like Sununu, Kasich, and Sandoval who actually have to administer and manage government in a direct way realize this as well.
If this perception of Trump becomes at all widespread among Republican politicians at the state and local level, this will inevitably reduce Trump’s support with the GOP base.
If NH Republicans aren’t privately seething at Trump they’re idiots, because he’s just made their political job vastly harder.