Senior campaign adviser Lara Trump asked voters to give President Trump a chance, painting him as a hardworking family man who fosters the success of women and would protect the country’s law and order.
“If you’re watching tonight and wrestling with your vote on Nov. 3, I implore you — tune out the distorted news and biased commentary and hear it straight from someone who knows,” said Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, during the third night of the Republican convention. “I wasn’t born a Trump. I’m from the South. I was raised a Carolina girl. I went to public schools and worked my way through a state university.”
“What I learned about our president is different than what you might have heard. I learned that he is a good man. That he loves his family. That he didn’t need this job. That no one on Earth works harder for the American people,” she added.
She said that under Trump, women’s unemployment has fallen to its lowest level since World War II, with millions of jobs created for women, small business ownership by women at record levels, and more than half a million women lifted out of poverty.
“He didn’t do these things to gain a vote or to check a box. He did them because they are the right things to do,” she said.
Earlier in the evening, Lara Trump narrated a video commemorating the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote and was signed into law in the U.S. Constitution on Aug. 26, 1920.
Calling on people to judge President Trump by his record in office, Lara Trump cast the election as a defining moment in the country’s trajectory.
“This is not just a choice between Republican and Democrat or Left and Right. This is an election that will decide if we keep America America or if we head down an uncharted, frightening path toward socialism,” she said. “We cannot dare to dream our biggest dreams — for ourselves or for our children — while consumed by worry about the safety of our families.”
She added: “President Trump is the law and order president — from our borders to our backyards. President Trump will keep America safe. President Trump will keep America prosperous. President Trump will keep America America.”
In an interview on Tuesday, the former television producer said the convention’s programming was devised with broad appeal. Lara Trump is married to the president’s son Eric.
“The message is that the Republican Party, and Donald Trump, is for every American,” she told WCNC news in Charlotte, North Carolina. “The Trump supporters in this country vary incredibly.”
She added: “You might not like everything that he tweets. You might not like the tone he takes at certain times. But there is no doubt that this president is fighting for every single citizen of this country.”
Lara Trump’s cousin Mary Trump claimed in a tell-all book published in July that during a family dinner at the White House in 2017, the president said that until Lara Trump caught his attention with a campaign speech for him in Georgia, he “barely even knew who the f— she was.”
The North Carolina native is “one of the strongest and best advocates that the president has had in his reelection effort,” said Tim Murtaugh, communications director for the Trump campaign.
