Boston Globe says Ayotte 'flunked the Trump test'

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., let voters down by “fumbling for months” on whether to support Donald Trump, the Boston Globe wrote Monday in its endorsement of Ayotte’s Democratic challenger, Gov. Maggie Hassan.

“The emergence of Donald J. Trump as the Republican presidential nominee surely would have posed a challenge for any politician in Ayotte’s shoes,” the paper wrote. “But the New Hampshire GOP senator flunked the Trump test, fumbling for months for a coherent position on whether she supported her party’s nativist, misogynistic, unqualified nominee.”