A top Trump surrogate who has been crisscrossing the nation to help President Trump’s party retain control of the House and Senate said an out-of-touch media is missing a surge in new voters drawn in by the president, just like in 2016.
Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and a top 2020 reelection campaign official, said that big city media and Democratic officials are also falsely spinning that vast waves of voters like women are rejecting the president.
“It’s very similar to what I felt in 2016. When I got out in the country, whenever I traveled to Florida, North Carolina, to Iowa, to Michigan, I felt like people were excited about something that the media was missing. And I think people are really enthusiastic to get out and vote in the midterms more so than they have in years past,” she told Secrets.
Often traveling with the president and at times on her own, just as her other family members like husband Eric Trump and brother-in-law Donald Trump Jr. have, she has seen new waves of supporters who haven’t voted before at rallies and said the media is ignoring them.
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“Maybe because the media is centralized in New York, and in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and maybe they really do need to get out there and talk to the people of this country that might have a different opinion than they do, that might have a different political outlook than they do and hear what they’re saying,” said Trump, also a chief advocate of a Florida initiative to stop dog racing.
“It’s sort of amazing to see but it’s not surprising because they got it wrong in 2016 and so let’s hope that they’re wrong again. We’re certainly not going to wait up on November 7 and say we could have done more,” Trump said in a telephone interview.
She also said that she sees a different voter reality than the opposition.
“It’s really funny to see how the Democrats try and spin everything as though, for example, women are not motivated to vote for Donald Trump,” said Trump, adding, “after the Kavanaugh confirmation, I can’t tell you the number of women that have come up to me directly and said, ‘I was disgusted by that, I can’t wait to go vote for Republicans, we can’t let the Democrats take control.’”
In her rallies for Republicans, Trump has tried to rally voters to back the president’s actions, warning that a Democratic takeover of the House or Senate will stall his agenda.
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“Although Donald Trump’s name is not on the ballot, he can’t do it without Congress. He can’t make the great changes we’ve seen him make without the support of a Republican Congress, she said.
“If you voted for him in 2016 and you’re happy with what he’s done with the country and you want to see all of that continue you have to get out and vote,” she said. “I think he’s really motivating people who otherwise would probably stay home and wouldn’t appreciate the importance of the midterm elections. I think he’s encouraging those people to get out and vote,” she added.
