CONWAY — If politics is a numbers game, we need an accountant in the Oval Office — that’s a message Republican Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, shared during a 30-minute interview at the Sun prior to holding a town hall at the North Conway Community Center Thursday evening.
(For coverage of the town hall meeting, see next Tuesday’s edition.)
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