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Trump Campaign Press Secretary: 'There's Still That Contingency of Hidden Trump Voters who Know the President is Right for Their Family and will Vote for Him'

Trump Campaign Press Secretary: 'There's Still That Contingency of Hidden Trump Voters who Know the President is Right for Their Family and will Vote for Him' Read Transcript


- Here now is Kayleigh McEnany,

National Press Secretaryfor the Trump 2020 campaign.

Good to have you with us.

- Thank you, guys.- Kayleigh, speaking of

Elizabeth Warren, she drewa crowd of about 20,000

in Manhattan this week.

We saw similar crowdswith then-candidate Trump

back in 2016.

How concerned does this make the campaign?

- Look, we've certainly taken notice of

Elizabeth Warren's rise.

She is on the heels of Joe Biden.

She could very likely be the nominee,

so we've taken notice of that.

In terms of comparingcrowds, we're very confident

when the President can go to a blue state

and draw crowds like whatwe saw in New Hampshire,

where he had 5000 waitingoutside, I saw it myself,

watching the Presidenton a television screen,

it's pretty easy to draw aDemocrat crowd in Manhattan.

A lot more difficult fora Republican candidate

to do that in New Hampshire or New Mexico,

which the President just did.

- Kayleigh, when it comesto women, Republicans,

they lost some ground with women in 2018.

What is the Trump campaigndoing to reach women,

and to win them over for 2020?

- Well, the President's accomplishments.

You know, we have a President,

the first Republican President in history,

first President of either party, actually,

to put in his budget aplan for paid family leave,

so important to women, I cantell you as a new mother myself

with a baby on the way, paid family leave

and having that as an optionin your company is big,

and this President is the one

who's put that in thebudget, and opened the way

for women in the workforce, 65-year low

in unemployment for women.

The numbers and facts tell the story,

so we're trying to blowpast the media narrative,

and get the facts out thereto females across the country.

- When you're out on the ground,

you're talking to women and just people

out in middle America,women in particular,

what are they telling you?

What are you sensing?

- Yeah, one of the thingswomen are telling me,

and I've heard this from a few women,

saying look, I was silent about my support

for the President in 2016.

I had one woman say I pulledthe lever for the President

in the heat of the momentin the voting booth,

but now I'm being more outspoken.

I think a lot of people are turned off by

Hollywood attacking the President,

and the media attacking the President,

and the left attacking the President,

so I do think it's driving a lot of women

to come out and be morevocal in their support,

but I also think there'sstill that contingency

of hidden Trump voters who happen,

many happen to be women, whomight not talk to a pollster,

or talk to the media, but nevertheless,

know the President'sright for their family

and will vote for him.- Kayleigh, let's talk about

those close states, likeWisconsin and Pennsylvania.

President Trump wonseveral of those states

by a very narrow margin.

What's he doing this time around

to make sure that he can win those states?

- Well, when I talked aboutthe facts with regard to women,

I would say the same withregard to these states

and to blue-collar workers.

You know, you have JoeBiden, for instance, saying

you know, I'm Blue-Collar Joe.

I'm someone who should get union support,

but then when you look atthe facts and the record,

you have a candidate in Joe Biden

who supported NAFTA, whichshut down 60,000 factories

versus a President who tore NAFTA up

and said I have the USMCA,

the strongest labor provisions that are

protective of labor in thehistory of our country.

So by comparing records,we think we will shore up

Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan,

looking to move into Minnesota,

where the President lostby just a point and a half,

and it falls into thatmold, so we're looking to

be offensive here, defendthe territory we had in '16,

and move forward in 2020.

- Expand the map.- Yes.

- What states do you think youcould win this time around,

could you clip, thatyou didn't have in 2016?

- So four in particularwe're really looking at,

New Mexico, New Hampshire,

where the President had two rallies,

and Nevada as well, and Minnesota,

so all four of those states areblue states we're looking at

and we've seen movement,and they are winnable.

- So, one topic, usingthe Lord's name in vain.

President Trump hasgotten in some trouble,

some hot water for this recently.

We have a clip, and thenwe'll talk about that.

- You happen to be watchingthe Democrat debate,

and the wind isn't blowing,you're not gonna see--

Charlie, what the hellhappened to this debate?

(laughter and applause)

He says, darling, the wind isn't blowing.

The (bleeped) windmill stopped.

That windmill stopped.

- So, Kayleigh, a lot of Christians,

they find this sort of language offensive.

Why does the President continue to use it?

- You know, it's hischoice what words he uses,

but what I can tell you is

he won an extraordinary amount of support

from evangelicals like myself,

and from Catholic voters,and he did because they knew

that he would be afighter for their causes,

and he has been a fighterfor Christian causes,

pro-life, putting judges onthe bench, religious freedom.

There's no doubt thatthe evangelical community

and the Catholic community has had

no greater fighter than President Trump.

- All right, Kayleigh McEnany,

thanks so much for being with us today.

- Thank you.- Thanks, Kayleigh.

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