Sen. Kelly Ayotte made headlines last month when she walked back calling Donald Trump a role model for kids. | Getty Ayotte: 'Wouldn’t want my daughter in the room' with Trump, Bill Clinton

New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte on Wednesday said she wouldn't want her 16-year-old daughter in the same room as either Donald Trump or Bill Clinton.

During a local radio interview with WNTK, as first reported by CNN, Ayotte was pressed to answer whether she would want her daughter to listen to Trump's comments, boasting about groping women during a taping of "Access Hollywood" in 2005. She replied, “I think we all know the answer to that.”


Asked if she felt the same about her daughter being in the same room with Bill Clinton, Ayotte distanced herself from both men.

“I wouldn’t want my daughter in the room with any of them,” she said. “But you know, the point of this is, why would I want my daughter in the room with them?"

Trying to fend off an extremely competitive bid to unseat her from Democratic New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, Ayotte has frequently wavered on her views of the Republican nominee while strongly opposing Hillary Clinton at every turn.

The embattled senator made national headlines last month when she said she would "absolutely" point to Trump as a role model to her kids, before backtracking and saying she "misspoke."

“I think that certainly there are many role models that we have, and I believe he can serve as president, and so absolutely I would do that,” she said awkwardly during a Senate debate Oct. 3.

Ayotte quickly retracted her comments following the debate.

"I misspoke tonight," the statement read. "While I would hope all of our children would aspire to be president, neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton have set a good example and I wouldn't hold up either of them as role models for my kids."