Republican women showing support for Trump
A female delegate from Palm Desert is among Republican women showing support for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. Supporters are optimistic that Trump will be able to get plenty of female voters in November.
Melania Trump headlined Day One of the Republican National Convention Monday. She was warming up the crowd for her businessman-turned-politician husband.
Throughout Donald Trump’s campaign one of the harshest criticisms of his candidacy is people believing Trump to be a misogynist and no believing he can appeal to female voters. But a California delegate on the floor of the RNC disagrees.
“That tends to be the play book for any Republican, that this party is supposedly anti woman, but I can tell you from the women here at this convention, it’s the complete opposite,” said Gina Nastande of Palm Desert, who is one of California’s Republican delegates.
Some Trump supporters believe women find him to be a better candidate than his competition, former Secretary of State, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
“Hillary Clinton has so much baggage including being anti-woman,” Nastande said.
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In La Quinta, at the East Valley Republican Women’s Federation, organizers are working from a grassroots level to get women to support Trump.
“For those people that are strongly against him or have some strong feelings about his attitude towards women, I think that they will come to a point where it is not as bad as they thought,” said Terry Henderson-Jandt, a board member for the federation.
“I don’t believe a lot of women are against Trump in thinking that he is not for women, because I believe he is a perfect gentleman and he is for women,” said Joy Miedecke, the federation’s president.
These supporters believe showcasing the Trump family at that convention will put more people, male and female, under the Trump tent.
“I truly think that any man that can raise such a wonderful family, his kids are top notch, and I think that they will show everyone that he is a man that you can trust,” Miedecke said.
Some of Trumps children are expected to make speeches at the RNC.
People looking to support Trump or have questions about local conservative candidates can go to the federation Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The office is located at 78870 Highway 111 in La Quinta.
