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An obscured "Women for Trump" flag, flying alongside the Gadsden flag outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, the day it was stormed.

Women for Trump is a political group in the United States who have supported the presidency of former U.S. president Donald Trump.

History

2016

Women 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 42%; however, Trump outperformed Clinton among white women, winning 53% of their vote. Racial Resentment has proved to have played a significant role in why Trump was able to win the majority of white women's votes.[5] More white women without college degrees (61%) voted for Trump.[6] 28% of 350,000 donations made to Trump's campaign came from women, according to Politico.[7]

2017

The 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.[8]

2019

Although a June Hill–Harris survey reported that 62% of women registered to vote were unlikely to vote for a Trump re-election,[9] the Women for Trump campaign was rallying support and donations to support the upcoming 2020 elections.[10] 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.[11] The organization held a 2020 kickoff party at the Westgate resort in Orlando, Florida, on June 17, 2019.[12]

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.[7]

During the 2019 impeachment inquiry against 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.[13]

2020

Kylie 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.[14]

2021

Kylie 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.[15][16]

References

  1. ^ "Kathryn Serkes | C-SPAN.org". C-SPAN.
  2. ^ "OUR STORY". WOMEN FOR TRUMP. Archived from the original on 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  3. ^ "Welcome to the home of the Tea Party Express". Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  4. ^ Zuvich, Cady (April 12, 2016). "Pro-Trump super PAC wants your money". Center for Public Integrity. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  5. ^ Tien, Charles (2 October 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.
  6. ^ Golshan, Tara (2017-01-20). "The women who helped Donald Trump win". Vox. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  7. ^ a b Orr, Gabby (14 May 2019). "Trump is finally catching fire with female donors". Politico. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Sheffield, Matthew (2019-06-06). "Trump's giant gender gap: 62 percent of women say they are unlikely to vote for him". The Hill. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  10. ^ "Trump campaign to hustle for female votes with high-profile 'Women for Trump' bus tour". Washington Examiner. 11 January 2020.
  11. ^ Orr, Gabby (November 2019). "Behind Trump's 2020 fight: Women trying to recover female support". Politico.
  12. ^ "Kick off 2020 Campaign Season | Women for Trump". Archived from the original on 2020-12-07. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ Frenkel, Sheera (2020-11-05). "The Rise and Fall of the 'Stop the Steal' Facebook Group". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  15. ^ Schwartz, Brian (2021-01-09). "Pro-Trump dark money groups organized the rally that led to deadly Capitol Hill riot". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  16. ^ "Here's What We Know About the Pro-Trump Rallies That Have Permits | Washingtonian (DC)". Washingtonian. 2021-01-05. Retrieved 2021-01-18.

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