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Gov. Chris Sununu said Friday his endorsement in the U.S. Senate GOP primary is a possibility. But endorsing Don Bolduc is not.

"He's not a serious candidate, he's really not," Sununu said of the retired general and current frontrunner. "If he were the nominee, I have no doubt we would have a much harder time trying to win that seat back. So I don't take him seriously as a candidate. I don't think most people do."

During an interview on WGIR radio, Sununu said he might endorse a GOP Senate primary candidate, "and maybe in the First CD or maybe some local house and Senate races, too. Everything's still very much on the table in terms of endorsement," Sununu said. The governor has already endorsed Keene Mayor George Hansel in the Second Congressional District primary.

But he won't be backing Bolduc, who he described as a "conspiracy-theory extremist."

Sununu compared Bolduc to far-right GOP candidates whose campaigns were boosted by millions of dollars in Democrat-funded campaign ads to help them defeat more viable Republicans. In Illinois and Michigan, those candidates are now the GOP nominees.

"Democrats are actually using Democrat donations to fund the candidacies of these conspiracy-theory extremists across the country," Sununu said. "If I were a Democrat, I'd be seriously angry about it, frankly,  because those folks could still potentially win. Democrats could be helping give the seat, not to a more reasonable candidate on the Republican side, but to folks that carry this kind of really bizarre extremism."

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