Kelly Ayotte Cuts Ties: ‘I Will Not Vote For Donald Trump’

Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., gestures while speaking during a news conference on unemployment and military pension cuts, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (A... Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., gestures while speaking during a news conference on unemployment and military pension cuts, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais MORE LESS
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Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) pulled her support for Donald Trump Saturday morning after a 2005 video surfaced Friday showing Trump making crude comments about how he seduced women.

“I wanted to be able to support my party’s nominee, chosen by the people because I feel strongly that we need a change in direction,” Ayotte said in the statement. “However, I’m a mom and an American first, and I cannot and will not support a candidate for president who brags about degrading and assaulting women.”

Ayotte is facing one of the toughest re-election battles in the U.S. Senate this cycle and her support of Trump has been a key place where her Democratic opponent Gov. Maggie Hassan has criticized her.

During a debate flap earlier this week, Ayotte said that Trump was a good role model for children. Then, she issued a statement that she “misspoke.”

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  1. One down…

  2. A couple days ago he was your role model, now you’re distancing yourself from him.

    Enjoy private life, Senator.

  3. I cannot and will not support a candidate for president who brags about degrading and assaulting women."

    So it’s the bragging that done it.

  4. Avatar for denisj denisj says:

    Writing in Gov Pence? The man that repeatedly lied in the VP debate denying so much that was provably true by looking at tapes of what was said including what he himself had said.

  5. grrrrr

    that’s why I wanted em tagged with that Trump ‘brand’. Dammit.

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