Women for Trump is a political group in the United States who have supported the presidency of former

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Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...

History

2016

Women for Trump was co-founded by

Amy Kremer Amy Kremer (born 1970 or 1971) is an American political activist known for her roles in the Tea Party movement and as a supporter of Donald Trump. She became involved in the Tea Party movement in 2009 and campaigned as part of the Tea Party Expre ...

and Kathryn Serkes in June 2016. Kremer was one of the founders of the modern-day

Tea Party movement The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009. Members of the movement called for lower taxes and for a reduction of the national debt and federal budget defi ...

, and a co-founder of the social networking site

Tea Party Patriots The Tea Party Patriots is an American conservative political organization founded in 2009 as part of the Tea Party movement. It is known for organizing citizen opposition to the Affordable Care Act during the presidency of Barack Obama, and more ...

. She is the former director and current chairman of the

Tea Party Express The Tea Party Express is a California-based group founded in the summer of 2009 to support the Tea Party movement. Founded as a national bus tour to rally Tea Party activists, the group's leadership also endorses and promotes conservative candida ...

, a national bus tour supporting Tea Party advocates. She was a co-founder of Great America PAC in support of Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Nationally,

Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...

gained 54% of women voters compared with Trump's 42%; however, Trump outperformed Clinton among white women, winning 53% of their vote. More white women without college degrees (61%) voted for Trump. 28% of 350,000 donations made to Trump's campaign came from women, according to Politico.

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

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, but was more than $20,000 in debt as of March 2017.

2019

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

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, on October 17, 2019.

2020

Kylie Jane Kremer, executive director of Women for Trump, created the "

Stop the Steal After Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, then-incumbent Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented effort to overturn the election, with support and assistance from his campaign, proxies, political allies, and many of h ...

" 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.

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.

References

External links

Official website
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