Women for Trump is a political group in the United States who have supported the presidency of former U.S. president Donald Trump.
Women for Trump is a political group in the United States who have supported the presidency of former U.S. president Donald Trump.
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 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]
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. [9]
Although 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]
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. [15]
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. [16] [17]
