Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm Steve Hayes. I was joined this week by Chris Sinunu,

governor of New Hampshire for a fun and engaging conversation on a variety of topics. We talked about

the idiosyncrasies and charms of New Hampshire and governance and politics. We talked about his

wins and losses during his tenure as governor. I asked him whether the Republican Party is a friendly

place for a limited government conservative like Sinunu, given what we've seen over the past several

years. We discussed New Hampshire's first in the nation primary and the role it will likely play

in 2024. And we discussed his sort of open contemplation of a presidential run and whether he was

serious when he called Donald Trump effing crazy during a dinner in Washington last spring.

Thanks for tuning in. I hope you enjoy the conversation.

Governor of student, great to have you. Nice to have you in the in the very fancy Dispatch podcast

offices and good to good to sit across the table from your conversation.

Washington DC, my favorite place. I'm not very good at picking up on the obvious,

but I think you were being sarcastic there. I just got off the airplane and already I need a shower.

So let me, this is a good place to start. Let me start there. You spent some time here.

You grew up here. You went to high school outside of DC. Thomas Jefferson high school, very

prestigious high school well regarded, often ranked the best high school in the country.

It's been in the news a bit lately. Have you followed this controversy?

Oh yeah. So this is the school where administrators didn't give a heads up to national merit,

comment these and triggered this investigation, which has led to the discovery of a lot of schools.

Not having done that. Have you followed it? Are you surprised?

I'm following it a lot of my former classmates are, you know, we kind of chat about it. We still

stay in contact a bit from what I've read and from what I understand. It's an absolute disaster.

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