JACKSONVILLE, Fla -- Before Donald Trump took the stage for his final rally in Jacksonville, an eager crowd heard about a political operative who helped elect John Delaney, John Payton, Lenny Curry, Rick Scott and would soon swing Florida for Donald Trump.
"For somebody like me, election day is like the longest day of the year because you've done all that you can do," said Susie Wiles. "You've made all the phone calls. You've knocked on all the doors, talking to as many people as you can. In this case, have as many rallies as possible."
Wiles was initially asked to co-chair Trump's Florida campaign. It's a voluntary job she agreed to.
But in the summer of 2016, she was asked to join Trump's team full-time.
"Have you lost your ever loving mind?" was the question some of Wiles' friends and political allies asked when she accepted the job.
"I said no," Wiles says she told them.
Watch the full interview with Wiles below:
She traveled to Trump Tower in New York to meet with then candidate Trump.
"I left thinking 'Okay, I get this now.' This man is incredibly smart on a range of topics that I don't think most people could be that well informed on," she says. "People are still underestimating Donald Trump."
In his first interview after the election that aired on 60 Minutes, Trump walked back on some of this nonnegotiable policies during the campaign.
However, a policy is still posted on his website that suggests shutting down Muslim entering the United States.
"I don't think he has a bigoted bone in his body, I don't," Wiles says. "I think he's concerned with American's safety and to the extent that anything threatens that, I think he'll take a tough stand."
Wiles says in the final weeks, if she wasn't with the president elect, she spoke to him by phone at least once a day if not more.
She was with Trump during the days when a story broke about a tape that recorded Trump saying a profane sexual remark about women.
"You know I did not like hearing that and seeing that. I did not. And it isn't the way I speak or conduct my life or approve. But I refocused on the prize," she says. "At a certain point Clark, you put the blinders on and say I wish that didn't happen, but the greater goal which is to take our government back was more important."
Wiles says her job was to deliver Florida. And she did.
She watched the results come in election night from the Florida campaign headquarters in Orlando. Trump called her to exchange congratulations.
Her day-to-day obligation with the Trump campaign ended that night.
She will cast one of Florida's electoral college votes. Despite protests across the country against the president-elect, she continues to support Donald Trump.
"We as Americans and we as news media have to give him a fair shake," Wiles says. "If we do, and I think the verdict is still out on that, I think he will exceed all of our expectations."