Gov. Chris Sununu says removing Trump from the ballot lets him play the 'victim card'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Trump is expected to appeal the ruling by the Colorado high court to the U.S. Supreme Court.
50% : "Personally, I think this is very politically motivated by the Maine secretary of state -- Trump should be on the ballot.
48% : Donald Trump can strike the pose of the martyr in any given context," he said.
47% : "The Colorado Supreme Court this month issued a first-of-its-kind ruling that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which states no one who has "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" after having sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution can hold office, prohibits Trump from holding office again due to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
42% : "Everybody just hopes that the...U.S. Supreme Court gets involved, overturns what Maine and Colorado are trying to do, make sure Trump's on the ballot in 50 states, and we move on."Asked whether he agrees with some Republicans, such as GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie, who argue that removing Trump from the ballot would make him a "martyr," Sununu replied, "Of course.
40% : In fact, the only person that wants Chris Christie to stay in the race is Donald Trump, right?
36% : "In a separate interview on CNN, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a former member of the Jan. 6 Committee, also weighed in on the argument that efforts to remove Trump from the ballot would make him a martyr.
34% : "Look, if there was any validity about keeping Trump off a ballot, you would see 48 other states trying to do the same thing," Sununu said.
33% : During an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," host Dana Bash asked Sununu about his reaction to Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' recent ruling that Trump is constitutionally ineligible to appear on the state's primary ballot next year over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
33% : "If he's allowed to stay on the ballot, despite his clear incitement of an insurrection and attempt to overturn the results in the 2020 election, and he loses to Joe Biden, as he almost certainly would -- Biden beat him by more than seven million votes last time, and we just have millions of young new voters who've joined the rolls, and they can't stand Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
29% : Courts in Michigan, Arizona and Minnesota have ruled against efforts to bar Trump from the 2024 ballot in those states.
27% : "He knows his voters, who want to see Trump defeated, are all coming over to Nikki Haley.
14% : Sununu, a vocal critic of Trump since the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, decried the ruling as a "very politically motivated" move by Bellows.
13% : "So I don't think we can run scared from Donald Trump.

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