From a Michael Schaffer Capital City column on politico.com headlined “Washington’s Favorite Republican Is Making All the Right Moves”:

The Republican primary season hasn’t even started, and already one contest appears to have a runaway winner: The Permanent-Washington Primary, where New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu is absolutely crushing it.

Being the quadrennial favorite of the GOP base’s most despised demographic may or may not be a useful career move for a wannabe president. But right now, in the battle for the hearts and minds and television bookings and annual dinner invites of that Beltway-media-industrial complex, the 48-year-old governor of the Granite State — officially “interested” but not declared as a candidate — is making all the right moves.