Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday rushed to contain the fallout of a damaging report about his 2024 presidential campaign's chances in New Hampshire.
The drama began after Tom Mountain, a Trump campaign insider from Massachusetts, wrote an email saying that New Hampshire was "no longer a battleground state" and that Trump was "sure to lose by an even higher margin" than in 2020, when he lost it by seven points to President Joe Biden.
Trump also lost New Hampshire to Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, albeit by a much smaller amount of less than one percentage point.
Mountain was quickly removed from his position as a leading campaign volunteer, but the former president himself decided to engage in some damage control in a Truth Social post claiming that his campaign in the Granite State was doing just fine.
"Comrade Kamala Harris sees there are problems for her campaign in New Hampshire because of the fact that they disrespected it in their primary and never showed up," Trump wrote. "Additionally, the cost of living in New Hampshire is through the roof, their energy bills are some of highest in the country, and their housing market is the most unaffordable in history. I protected New Hampshire's First-In-The-Nation Primary and ALWAYS will! To my friends in New Hampshire, get out and vote TRUMP. Together, we will make your State and America Strong, Safe, and Prosperous AGAIN!"
Despite Trump's protestations, however, polling shows that Mountain's analysis of the New Hampshire electorate appears to be accurate, as Harris currently holds a lead there of seven points according to polling averages at 538.