Women for Trump is a political group in the United States who have supported the presidency of former U.S. president Donald Trump.
History
edit2016
editWomen for Trump was co-founded by Amy Kremer and Kathryn Serkes[1] in June 2016.[2] Kremer was one of the founders of the modern-day Tea Party movement, and a co-founder of the social networking site Tea Party Patriots. She is the former director and current chairman of the Tea Party Express, a national bus tour supporting Tea Party advocates.[3] She was a co-founder of Great America PAC in support of Trump in the 2016 presidential election.[4]
Nationally, Hillary Clinton gained 54% of women voters compared with Trump's 39%; however, Trump outperformed Clinton among white women, winning 47% of their vote compared to Clinton's 45%. Racial resentment has proved to have played a significant role in why Trump was able to win the plurality of white women's votes.[5][6] More white women without college degrees (61%) voted for Trump.[7] 28% of 350,000 donations made to Trump's campaign came from women, according to Politico.[8]
2017
editThe Women for Trump organization donated to the Trump campaign through the Women Vote Smart political action committee. Women Vote Smart raised more than $26,000 in 2017, according to the Federal Election Commission, but was more than $20,000 in debt as of March 2017.[9]
2019
editAlthough a June Hill–Harris survey reported that 62% of women registered to vote were unlikely to vote for a Trump re-election,[10] the Women for Trump campaign was rallying support and donations to support the upcoming 2020 elections.[11] Politico reported in November 2019 that the Women for Trump coalition was accepting donations and seeking volunteers to push their initiative and spread their political message.[12] The organization held a 2020 kickoff party at the Westgate resort in Orlando, Florida, on June 17, 2019.[13]
As of December, 36.3% of Trump's donations had come from women. In the first quarter of 2019, donations were evenly split between men and women, according to available FEC data. First-quarter donations from women totaled approximately $15 million.[8]
During the 2019 impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, Kremer and her daughter Kylie also started a new nonprofit, Women for America First, which can raise unlimited money to rally support for the president without disclosing its donors, and were behind a "March for Trump: Stop Impeachment Now!" rally in Washington, D.C., on October 17, 2019.[14]
2020
editKylie Jane Kremer, executive director of Women for Trump, created the "Stop the Steal" Facebook group on November 4, 2020, the day after Election Day, as a forum for people to falsely claim that the ballot counting was being manipulated against Trump. It became one of the fastest-growing groups in Facebook's history, gaining more than 320,000 users in a day before being shut down by Facebook, which said users of the group had tried to incite violence.[15]
2021
editKylie Jane Kremer was named on a permit as the person in charge of the rally in Washington, D.C., on January 6 that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol.[16][17]
References
edit- ^ "Kathryn Serkes | C-SPAN.org". C-SPAN.
- ^ "OUR STORY". WOMEN FOR TRUMP. Archived from the original on September 4, 2020. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
- ^ "Welcome to the home of the Tea Party Express". Retrieved December 1, 2019.
- ^ Zuvich, Cady (April 12, 2016). "Pro-Trump super PAC wants your money". Center for Public Integrity. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
- ^ An examination of the 2016 electorate, based on validated voters (Report). Pew Research Center. August 9, 2018. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Tien, Charles (October 2, 2017). "The Racial Gap in Voting Among Women: White Women, Racial Resentment, and Support for Trump". New Political Science. 39 (4): 651–669. doi:10.1080/07393148.2017.1378296. ISSN 0739-3148. S2CID 149245364.
- ^ Golshan, Tara (January 20, 2017). "The women who helped Donald Trump win". Vox. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
- ^ a b Orr, Gabby (May 14, 2019). "Trump is finally catching fire with female donors". Politico. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
- ^ Kaczynski, Andrew (March 9, 2017). "GOP Congressional candidate's 'Women Vote Trump' PAC came up $29,973,187 short of fundraising goal". CNN. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
- ^ Sheffield, Matthew (June 6, 2019). "Trump's giant gender gap: 62 percent of women say they are unlikely to vote for him". The Hill. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
- ^ "Trump campaign to hustle for female votes with high-profile 'Women for Trump' bus tour". Washington Examiner. January 11, 2020.
- ^ Orr, Gabby (November 2019). "Behind Trump's 2020 fight: Women trying to recover female support". Politico.
- ^ "Kick off 2020 Campaign Season | Women for Trump". Archived from the original on December 7, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
- ^ Mencimber, Stephanie (October 18, 2019). ""Heels On, Gloves Off!" Women March Against Trump's Impeachment in Washington. But Really Not Many". Mother Jones. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
- ^ Frenkel, Sheera (November 5, 2020). "The Rise and Fall of the 'Stop the Steal' Facebook Group". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ Schwartz, Brian (January 9, 2021). "Pro-Trump dark money groups organized the rally that led to deadly Capitol Hill riot". CNBC. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ "Here's What We Know About the Pro-Trump Rallies That Have Permits | Washingtonian (DC)". Washingtonian. January 5, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2021.