FLASHBACK: Eight Years Ago Today, Kelly Ayotte Walks Back Calling Trump a Role Model. She’s Supporting Him Again This YearLatest News Year in Review

FLASHBACK: Eight Years Ago Today, Kelly Ayotte Walks Back Calling Trump a Role Model. She's Supporting Him Again This Year

Kelly Ayotte in 2016: "I made a mistake" calling Trump a role model.

Kelly Ayotte in 2024: "There's no question he's the right choice for the White House."

Eight years ago today, just days after the release of the Access Hollywood tape revealed Donald Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women, then-U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte said she "made a mistake" calling Trump a role model, and re-affirmed she would be rescinding her endorsement of him, and would not be voting for him: "I stood up and called Donald Trump out on many occasions and that tape for me, having been a prosecutor, was fundamentally different, and that to me is why I'm not voting for him."

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Ayotte would go on to lose her reelection campaign just weeks later, with many saying her Trump troubles cost her the race. Fast forward to today, and Kelly Ayotte has gone back on her word, abandoning what she once called a "matter of principle," and endorsing Trump as the "right choice for the White House" - while failing to answer for what she tells her daughter saying in 2016: "this is more important to me, that my daughter know when she is old enough to understand this, where I stood than winning any election.

"At every turn, Kelly Ayotte has tried to run from her record - whether it's her career-long hostility to abortion rights, her work cashing in on corporate boards, or her self-serving reversals on Donald Trump. No matter how many lies she tells during an election year, Granite Staters know they can't trust a word she says," said DGA States Press Secretary Emma O'Brien. "If Kelly Ayotte can't even keep her word to her own daughter, why should Granite Staters trust her as governor?"

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