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Speaker 1: I'm Kevin Cerelli, chief Washington correspondent from Bloomberg Television and

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio, and we're joined on the telephone from Trump

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Speaker 1: Tower Lara Trump. She is, of course, one of the

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Speaker 1: senior advisers on President Trump's re election campaign. She is

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Speaker 1: also the wife of Eric Trump, a member of the

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Speaker 1: First Family, and in addition to that, if that wasn't enough,

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Speaker 1: she kicked off the Women for Trump coalition, which Selina

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Speaker 1: Zeido chronicled and on Real Clear Politics as Lara Trump

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Speaker 1: tries to fix her party's woman problem. Lara, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for being here. So tell me about this

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Speaker 1: new this new coalition, Women for Trump. Well, I would

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Speaker 1: take a little bit of disagreement with that headline. I

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Speaker 1: would know we don't have a women problem, which is

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Speaker 1: why we had over a thousand women Kevin show up

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Speaker 1: to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania for our Women for Trump

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Speaker 1: launched last week. Um, it was awesome, you know. The

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Speaker 1: the reality is that in I actually started out on

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Speaker 1: the road with a group of women. Uh, Katrina Pearson

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Speaker 1: who's still with the campaign now, Lynn Patton, who many

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Speaker 1: people know, Diamond and Silk All. Yeah, it's it's it

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Speaker 1: was so much fun. But we actually just set out

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Speaker 1: on the road on a bus and it turned into

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Speaker 1: we started calling ourselves Women for Trump because that's what

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Speaker 1: we were and um and so it was really organic

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Speaker 1: in grassroots and in the way that it formed in

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Speaker 1: and as we're approaching, you know, we just want to

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Speaker 1: put together We wanted to put together a group of women, uh,

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Speaker 1: to to reach out to the women in this country

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, it is okay to support President Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump because oftentimes, unfortunately, UM, I think women especially are

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Speaker 1: made to feel like they should be supporting Democrats, like

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Speaker 1: they shouldn't support this president for some reason. And the

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Speaker 1: bottom line is that this president has been great for women. Uh.

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Speaker 1: If you just look at the fact that of the

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Speaker 1: almost six million new jobs created in this country, over

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Speaker 1: of those have gone to women. Um, it's huge and

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Speaker 1: and Donald Trump has always been a great champion of women.

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Speaker 1: And we're just we were tired of all of the

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Speaker 1: rhetoric out there suggesting otherwise. So we wanted to officially

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Speaker 1: launch our coalition and that's what we did last week.

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Speaker 1: Lara Trump's on the line. She is a senior advisor

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Speaker 1: to President Trump's re election campaign. Launching Women for Trump.

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Speaker 1: They kicked this off in suburban Philadelphia, my neck of

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Speaker 1: the woods, my hometown area, which is of course a

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Speaker 1: key battleground state and a key of Pennsylvania, which President

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Speaker 1: Trump flipped, the first Republican to do so since nineteen

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Speaker 1: during the last presidential cycle. You know, I'm struck by this, Lara,

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Speaker 1: because when I when I talked to Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel,

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Speaker 1: the chair of the r n C alright, talked to

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Speaker 1: Kelly and Conway, special counselor to the President, they say,

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Speaker 1: what you're saying, which is essentially that you know, this

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Speaker 1: war on women, as Democrats have suggested and labeled, it

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Speaker 1: is not, you know, they take issue with the with

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Speaker 1: the battle lines for how they're being drawn. So in

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Speaker 1: terms of the economy, how why how do you flip

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Speaker 1: that message on its on its head? So to speak

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Speaker 1: against Democrats? Well, I mean, I think it's just asking

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Speaker 1: women as a whole to take a look at themselves

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Speaker 1: and say, are you more prosperous now? Do you feel

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Speaker 1: economically like you're in a better place now? Are there

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Speaker 1: more job opportunities for you now than there were before

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump took office? And listen, as a young woman

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Speaker 1: coming out of college. Um, I graduated from college in

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Speaker 1: was really really hard for me to find a job.

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Speaker 1: I worked as a waitress and a bartender for a

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Speaker 1: long time where I went to North Carolina State. So we're,

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Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of rivals. Yeah, but go ahead.

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Speaker 1: But but I just remember coming out of college and think,

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Speaker 1: you know, I did everything right, and shouldn't I have?

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Speaker 1: I got good grades, I went to college, I did

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Speaker 1: what I was told I had to do, and now

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Speaker 1: there's nothing out there for me. Women who were graduating

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Speaker 1: from college now, women who are getting back into the

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Speaker 1: be a woman right now. And so I just I

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Speaker 1: think women need to reflect back. Do you have more

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Speaker 1: Are there more job opportunities for you? And the reality is,

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Speaker 1: I think most women and most people in this country

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Speaker 1: would say the answer to those questions or yes. I

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Speaker 1: was talking with some staffers on the on the reelection campaign,

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Speaker 1: and you know this, I mean, at this iteration of

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Speaker 1: the Democratic primary, there's so much chatter, so much talk

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Speaker 1: And you know, I remember back in the Steen cycle

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Speaker 1: Bush was going to raise and whatnot. I'm heading down

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Speaker 1: to Detroit, UH next week for the second debate. My

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Speaker 1: understanding is that the Trump campaign is also you guys

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Speaker 1: have posted some strong small dollar donations. I was, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be honest, I was surprised by this. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: we weren't very surprised by because we could continue to happen.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, as it's as it relates to

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Speaker 1: women in um just a great staff for you, in

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Speaker 1: a quarter of the donations that we received at the

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Speaker 1: Trump campaign came from women, in half of the donations

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Speaker 1: that surprised me. And I know it doesn't surprise you,

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Speaker 1: but say that so back in the cycle over women

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Speaker 1: and then in the last year alone, what did that

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Speaker 1: What did that increase to? It is it is the

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Speaker 1: fundraising is from women. And by the way, I mean

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Speaker 1: that tells you a lot. I think women again are

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Speaker 1: not going to talk to a poster. They might not

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Speaker 1: even be talking to their friends and family, but they're

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Speaker 1: showing their support for this president and the fact that

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Speaker 1: they're donating to our campaign or average donation at the

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Speaker 1: campaign is around forty one. We have just under We

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Speaker 1: have like nine hundred and sixty thousand individual donors currently

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Speaker 1: at the campaign, and we've had record fundraising. We have

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Speaker 1: a hundred twenty three million dollars cash on hand right now.

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Speaker 1: So it's been huge and we're we're really proud of

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Speaker 1: of the fundraising. But I think when people are scared

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Speaker 1: to voice their opinion out there, when they're scared to

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Speaker 1: they're not scared to make a donation to see this

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Speaker 1: president's stay in office for four more years. I got

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Speaker 1: to ask you, and you've been so generous with your time.

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Speaker 1: But so I'll finish here and Larry Trump, thank you

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Speaker 1: for calling in uh from Trump Tower. This this this

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've been following this, but this

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Speaker 1: X I'm reading from CNN dot com X. Miss Michigan

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Speaker 1: says pageant dethroned for her conservative views, The woman stripped

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Speaker 1: of her Miss Michigan twenty nineteen tiara for tweets that

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Speaker 1: the pageants organizers found offensive. Said Monday, she stands by

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Speaker 1: everything she says on social media. Her name is Kathy

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Speaker 1: this is because she has pro conservative rhetoric. Uh, I'm wondering,

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Speaker 1: we've seen this time and time again. It's it's really

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Speaker 1: appalling to see that there. It does seem like, you know,

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Speaker 1: you talk about a war on women. It feels like

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Speaker 1: there's a war on conservatives out there and on college

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Speaker 1: campuses in the media. Um, however you want to describe it.

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Speaker 1: It is very hard, I think out there for so

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Speaker 1: many people to voice their conservative opinions in their and

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Speaker 1: their conservative ideas, and that is not who we are

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Speaker 1: as the United States of America. You know, we're a

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Speaker 1: free thinking country and you should be allowed to to

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Speaker 1: say stand up and say who you support. And the

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Speaker 1: fact that this girl, you know, has a photo with

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Speaker 1: a Maga hat on, I'm sure ruffled some feathers. And

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Speaker 1: and then they went back and they found some tweets

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Speaker 1: saw her on television. I thought she was great. She

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Speaker 1: And nothing she said. I don't think it was inflammatory

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Speaker 1: or over the top. Um. And actually, as of yesterday,

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Speaker 1: we officially have her on our advisory board for our

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Speaker 1: her and offered her a spot, and she was so

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Speaker 1: excited to take it. And UM, just what a shame

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Speaker 1: for for her and for women out there as a whole, uh,

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Speaker 1: to be made to feel like you cannot stand up

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Speaker 1: and and voice your opinion these days, because isn't that

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Speaker 1: going back? Aren't we going backwards in this country if

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Speaker 1: that's the way that women and people in general are

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Speaker 1: being made to feel