Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire is not going to enter the Republican presidential race, he stated on Monday, forgoing a marketing campaign that may have examined the urge for food of his occasion’s voters for a self-described “normal” candidate.

He bowed out in an interview on CNN, saying he wished to have the ability to have a extra “candid, a little more unleashed voice” within the main than he would have the ability to as a candidate — significantly in shifting the occasion away from former President Donald J. Trump.

“I want more independents on the Republican Party team. I want more young voters on the Republican Party team,” he stated, including, “I think more folks in the Republican Party have to have that kind of voice, that kind of emphasis of message, in making sure this is about the Republican Party, not just about the former president.”

Mr. Sununu, 48, whose political mantra is “be normal,” is mostly thought of a reasonable. Compared with different Republicans, he’s — although he’s consistent with the remainder of his occasion on many points, together with fiscal coverage.

He describes himself as a supporter of abortion rights, although he did signal a ban in 2021 on most abortions after 24 weeks’ gestation; he opposed a invoice final yr that would have required colleges to out homosexual and transgender college students to their dad and mom; and he has been vital of former President Donald J. Trump, although he has stated he would help Mr. Trump in a normal election.

“I’m conservative,” he said in February. “I’m just not an extremist.”

Mr. Sununu has lengthy been seen as a primary candidate for greater workplace. He is common in New Hampshire, the place voters have elected him 4 instances — most lately by more than 15 percentage points — regardless of the state’s Democratic tilt. When he declined to run for Senate final yr, he disillusioned occasion leaders who thought of him their greatest shot to unseat a Democratic incumbent, Maggie Hassan. (Ms. Hassan handily defeated the far-right Republican, Don Bolduc, who was nominated instead.)

But the form of Republican who can win in an independent-minded, blue-leaning state like New Hampshire just isn’t the form of Republican whom nationwide main voters have indicated they need. The occasion’s primary field has up to now been dominated by Mr. Trump, and even the candidates working towards him have tended to not criticize him too harshly lest they anger his base.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who’s seen as Mr. Trump’s high Republican rival, has stepped up his attacks on Mr. Trump since getting into the race final month. But to the extent that different Republicans — together with Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, and Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina — have distanced themselves from Mr. Trump, they’ve largely completed so in type relatively than in substance.