Adam Sexton

Welcome to The Trail: All Things Politics, WMUR's new politics podcast.

I'm WMUR political director, Adam Sexton.

And I'm WMUR anchor, Steve Bottari.

Today on the pod, we're gonna talk about New Hampshire's governor's race.

Uh, but first I wanna talk about, uh, what's happening with the US Senate race.

This is probably the thing happening in New Hampshire right now that is most closely watched around the country, John Sununu, Chris Pappas.

And Adam, we finally saw them face to face after all this time.

We got the first couple of debates today, and they're already going right after each other.

This is a WMUR podcast, The Trail: All Things Politics.

Hey, everybody, I'm Adam Sexton, WMUR political director.

Welcome to The Trail: All Things Politics.

And I'm Steve Bottari.

So here we are, about to hit Columbus Day weekend.

This is kinda like the final sprint, Adam, for the campaigns before they hit the midterms.

They got, like, two weeks and change to change minds, convince people to get out to the polls.

Um, but we're also seeing right now, not just the leaves changing here in the, in New Hampshire, uh, but we're starting to see some of the bigger names show up here in the Granite State because ostensibly, they say they're here trying to support those tickets up and down both sides, uh, for the midterms, but then there's also the question of a lot of the people we're seeing here are the same people being talked about for 2028, and so we kinda wanna dig into that today.

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Look, anybody that comes up here," meaning he was in New Hampshire at the time.

Um, and anyway, and he says, "Anyone who comes up here and has ever run for president, uh, and not won and told you they're not thinking about it again is lying." He said this at the Granite State Summit on Responsible Gaming, per footage shared by WMUR9 Adam Sexton.

And he said that, "Once you go through the process of convincing yourself that you can be president and the next step that you should be president, that does not leave your brain.

So the way I look at it is this, if I'm gonna go back home to my wife and say, 'Uh, I know you may not believe this, but the third time is the charm,' and, uh, like, I have a, a better real the-" You're not-- Chris, you're wasting your time and, and whoever gives you money's...