14May/19

Trump campaign says ‘female forward’ approach boosts donations from women – POLITICO

Trump campaign says ‘female forward’ approach boosts donations from women  POLITICO

Donald Trump won the presidency with just 42 percent of the female vote in 2016. But his fundraising showed an even bigger gender disparity: Only 28 percent of the 350,000 individual donors who gave to his campaign were women. Trump’s 2020 operation has worked hard since then to change those numbers. And new fundraising data shows they’re finally getting results. Women accounted for nearly half of Trump’s 2020 campaign contributions in the first three months of 2019, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. That’s a striking increase from the 2016 election cycle, wh…