Chris Sununu was just reelected governor of New Hampshire, and now he's thinking about

running for president.

Come for Sununu's trolling of Joe Biden, stay for his trolling of Rhondas Antis.

I'm Ryan Liza, this is Playbook Deep Dive, I have a confession, I don't really like

interviewing politicians.

Now that might sound strange for someone who works at Politico and does this for a living.

But let's be honest, most interviews with politicians are boring or predictable or both.

If you ever watch cable news, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

When you run for office, you're trained to treat every interview not as a real conversation

between two humans, but as an opportunity to deliver a message.

As you can imagine, this gets frustrating to journalists, so they often respond by

approaching interviews with the goal of knocking the politician off message.

This in turn annoys the politicians who complain that reporters don't really want to have

substantive conversations and that they're just looking for gacha moments.

And so each side digs in a little more and the cycle repeats.

So when I flew up to New Hampshire the other day to interview governor Sununu, I admit

that I wasn't really looking forward to it.

He just won his fourth two year term, but he obviously has his eye on the GOP presidential

nomination.

Sununu made national headlines last year when at a press dinner in Washington, he joked

that Donald Trump was quote, fucking crazy.

Last month after Republicans had a disappointing midterm, Sununu showed up at a Republican

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