Sen Kelly Ayotte said she regretted calling Donald Trump a role model

New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte has dropped Donald Trump -- and now, facing a tough re- election challenge, she is making the case that she'd be a check on Hillary Clinton in Washington.

  Ayotte, the first-term Republican who's trailing Democratic challenger Maggie Hassan in the polls, all but admitted that Clinton is poised to win the White House on Monday.
   "There's so much at stake in this presidential election: the Supreme Court, our national security, so many issues that matter to people of this state," Ayotte told CNN's Manu Raju in an interview.
 
"And Gov. Hassan is going to essentially follow Hillary Clinton's lead on all of them, where I'm going to stand up to her when she's not taking us in the right direction," Ayotte said.