Donald Trump downplayed high expectations in the New Hampshire primary claiming, “I don’t even know that I’m going to win.”
Thursday on the “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Trump said that “we’ll do a great job. And there’s a great feeling up here but I don’t want to be so presumptuous as to say I’m going to win because who really knows.”
Hewitt asked Trump who was going to place in second and third after his victory and Trump said, “Well, I don’t even know that I’m going to win. Who knows. I mean, I certainly, I’m up here now, I’m actually — we made five stops and I’m right here, we’re going to our sixth. And I don’t know. I will say this, there’s a lot of love in those rooms.”
“The relationship that I have and I’ve been here a lot over the years — not even to do with politics. I’ve always loved New Hampshire,” Trump claimed. “And there’s a lot of good feeling. I don’t know about second place. I see it’s very competitive. Boy, there’s a lot of fighting. I’ve never seen anything like it. They’re really going at each other, Hugh. It’s pretty wild.”
Hewitt replied, “Well, so I’m very confident that you’re going to win but you don’t have an intuition on who’s getting silver and bronze?”
Trump said, “No, I don’t like to say. I mean, I have my feelings but I don’t like to say. I know we’re doing well, and I know there’s a great feeling and a lot of people are liking what I’m talking about on the border and on trade and on the military and knocking the hell out of ISIS. And you know, on so many different things and taking care of our vets. Which is a very important thing to me.”
Arguing that it is “imperative” to “terminate Obamacare. We have to repeal it and we have to replace it with something so good and there’s so many options that we have.”
Circling back to the New Hampshire primary, Trump suggested, “You know, we’ll do a great job. And there’s a great feeling up here but I don’t want to be so presumptuous as to say I’m going to win because who really knows.”
Hewitt replied, “I do. I was right last week so I’m saying that I’m right this week.” Last Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Hewitt correctly predicted that [crscore]Ted Cruz[/crscore] would win Iowa, Trump would get second, and [crscore]Marco Rubio[/crscore] would be a close third.