John Sununu tries to keep New Hampshire political dynasty alive in Senate race

LACONIA, NH — There’s been someone missing from John Sununu’s side during the Republican’s campaign to reclaim his former Senate seat: His younger brother, the popular former four-term Granite State governor, Chris.“There’s really no need to campaign with anyone else,” John, 62, told The Post when asked why he doesn’t appear with Chris.“In New Hampshire, they want to meet the candidate.

You go town to town, person to person.”“My brother’s done lots of events,” he added.“It’s great to have him doing events that I can’t attend.

You can’t be everywhere at the same time.So he’s been supportive.

He’s been out on the campaign trail.He’s supporting other candidates across the ticket.”Next week’s election might be the last chance for John Edward Sununu to maintain a dynasty that has dominated New Hampshire Republican politics since 1982, when his father, John Henry Sununu, won the first of three gubernatorial terms and kick-started a career that saw him ascend to White House chief of staff under George H.W.

Bush.The younger John Sununu spent six years in the House of Representatives before defeating then-Democratic Gov.Jeanne Shaheen in a bitter 2002 Senate race.

In the rematch six years later, Shaheen rode Barack Obama’s coattails to an easy win and has held the seat for three terms before announcing her retirement last year.With Chris Sununu, 51, opting against what would have been a competitive Senate race in 2022, as well as a long-shot bid for president in 2024, John E.is the last Sununu standing — and he’s facing an uphill battle.Polls have consistently shown the Republican trailing Rep.

Chris Pappas (D-NH), whose family runs Manchester’s Puritan Backroom restaurant — which claims to have invented the chicken tender.With one week to go before election day, the RealClearPolitics average shows Sununu behind by 6.7 percentage points.“I love the fact that he’s running,” said a Sununu supporter named Paige,...