NH-Gov, ND-Gov: Both North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu this week addressed the possibility that they’d try and hold their current offices in 2024 even as they each also eye longshot Republican presidential bids, though Sununu sounds the more likely of the two to depart. “I am not saying I am not running [for governor] again, but I’ve got to get a real job,” New Hampshire's chief executive joked Wednesday about the post he’s held since 2017, adding, “My wife is very excited when I say that.”
Sununu added that he’d decide by early August if he’d seek the White House, though he doesn’t appear to have laid out a timeline for when he’d make up his mind if he’d campaign for what would be a historic fifth two-year term running this swing state. As we’ve written before, Sununu wouldn’t necessarily need to decide between the two campaigns because the Granite State has one of the latest candidate filing deadlines in America for non-presidential offices.
Burgum, while evading questions about any commander-in-chief dreams, meanwhile said of a potential re-election campaign, “I haven’t made any official announcement on that in the past, but I love having the opportunity to serve and I have a ton of energy for this job. But that decision about a third term is a long ways off.”