‘I am that fighter’: Former Aide to Trump and Stefanik Runs for Congress in New Hampshire

‘I am that fighter’: Former Aide to Trump and Stefanik Runs for Congress in New Hampshire
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) leaves a meeting with Karoline Leavitt where she was elected House Republican conference chair in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center on May 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Karoline Leavitt, a former assistant press secretary for President Donald Trump, announced her running for Congress on Tuesday, saying she is the “fighter” that her home state of New Hampshire needed.

“Here in the Live Free or Die State, we take our freedoms very seriously. And we need a bold, energetic fighter to serve as a firewall, between we the people and those who want to destroy our way of life,” Leavitt said in a campaign video released on Tuesday. “I am that fighter.”