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ICYMI: Guests on NHPR's The Exchange Highlight Ayotte Has Become National Punchline for "Support But Not Endorse" Comments on Trump

NHPR's Josh Rogers Recalls Another Oxymoronic Ayotte Statement When She Tried to Deflect Blame on the FRM Ponzi Scheme Scandal

Concord, N.H. -- This morning, Josh Rogers of NHPR and Dean Spiliotes of Southern New Hampshire University joined Laura Knoy on NHPR's "The Exchange" to discuss how Kelly Ayotte has become a national punchline for her "oxymoronic" statement that she would support, but not endorse, Donald Trump.

Spiliotes noted that Ayottes has become the "poster Member of Congress for people who are kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place" with Donald Trump at the top of the ticket.

Rogers also recalled another oxymornoic Ayotte statement when she tried to deflect blame for the FRM ponzi scheme scandal "and the talking point she went in with was, you know, 'I'm all for the principle that the buck stops at my desk, but it has to reach my desk for it to stop with me.'"

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SPILIOTES: ...You know, up here the focus has really been on kind of watching Kelly Ayotte figure out how to deal with this. And she had that, you know, famous statement about endorsing, about 'supporting' Trump, but not 'endorsing' him. And in fact, you know, Stephen Colbert and others have kind of mocked it a little bit. So it's gotten national attention as kind of, she's, I think, unintentionally has become sort of the poster Member of Congress for people who are kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place...

KNOY: And then a couple Facebook comments about Kelly Ayotte and her position on Donald Trump...Dale says, "She doesn't agree or even like Trump, and for a number of reasons. But the only way the Republican party can exist is to follow his lead. If anyone endorses him they will have to live with it and be reminded for the rest of their lives that they have endorsed. In any event their careers may be over if they give him a nod of approval." Would Kelly Ayotte's career be over...?

ROGERS: ...You know, for me it actually sort of called to mind during her first race, when the FRM ponzi scheme was up and this was an issue that was being raised, did the Attorney General handle it, and she was called to testify before a committee and the talking point she went in with was, you know, "I'm all for the principle that the buck stops at my desk, but it has to reach my desk for it to stop with me." And it was sort of a similar kind of thing where it was an attempt to get something across that, you know, the layperson might view as almost sort of oxymoronic or contradictory. And so this isn't the first time she's come out with this sort of statement in a potentially fraught political [climate]...

SPILOTES: Yea, and the drawback for her is that...her particular kind of splitting hairs really became kind of the national model for people who are stuck in this position. I mean, it was just everywhere nationally on the late night shows. They always used her as kind of the example of how difficult this is, so that's just something she has to deal with.
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