Pennsylvania women push Trump’s deeds
Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr., former White House aide Mercedes Schlapp, Trump campaign national press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany, and senior adviser Katrina Pierson.
Brad Parscale, the super-tall, bearded campaign manager who was Trump’s data guru in 2016, explained the reason for the event and its suburban location.
“The decision was made from multiple data sets” that indicated “this is the right city and these are the right women to help us win Pennsylvania,” he said.
In 2016, Trump won Pennsylvania with close to 45,000 more votes than Clinton.
Female fundraising
According to 2016 exit polls, Trump garnered some 42 percent of women’s votes in 2016.
For the first three months of 2019, however, the Trump campaign raised 45 percent of its take from women, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
That put him ahead of all Democrats other than Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Kamala Harris, D-calif.
Luke Acosta, national press secretary for the Democratic National Committee, released a statement Tuesday.
“The ‘Women for Trump’ initiative is yet another transparent attempt to gaslight the American public about Trump’s virulently anti-woman record,” Acosta said.
Deeds, not words
“If people look at what he does versus what he says” they would hold a higher view of Trump, said Ann Stone, a Trump supporter and founder of Republicans for Choice.
Mary Ortner of Woodbury
Heights, New Jersey, said she voted for Trump in 2016. Asked about Trump’s recent tweet storm, Ortner replied, “Disparaging is not a good move on anybody’s part. They said a lot of disparaging things, too. It’s unfortunate.”
In the same vein, Mcdaniel told the room, “This is a president who said a lot of things, but, boy, has he delivered.”
Mcdaniel later told the Review-journal that the campaign is targeting rural voters and suburban voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Nevada.
And while supporters may not agree with everything Trump says, “you can’t deny the numbers. Wages are up. Jobs are coming back.”
Guilfoyle noted that the Dow
Jones Industrial Average this week breached the 27,000 mark. “He shows us the numbers and he shows us the money,” she said.
Contact Debra J. Saunders at dsaunders@reviewjournal.com or 202-662-7391. Follow @Debrajsaunders on Twitter.