That’s how we’re going to appeal to them. Manafort responded that many women may respond to Trump because they are anxious about their husbands’ paychecks supporting their lifestyles. You can see campaign manager Paul Manafort making that case to Jake Tapper on CNN in the video above; here’s a partial transcript. “Their husbands can’t afford paying for the family bills”.
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He added: “Hillary Clinton is part of that establishment that created that problem”.
Matthews: You know what you just said?
“The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end”, Trump will say Thursday night during his acceptance speech, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks distributed to reporters. Is that the twenty-first century talking? Matthews pressed. “Wives are concerned about how their husband’s doing at work?”
MANAFORT: Well the Federal Bureau of Investigation certainly is suspect these days after what they just did with Hillary Clinton.
Right after Manafort spoke, Tapper told him, “I wasn’t talking about feelings, I was just talking about the facts of actual violent crime”. The group accounted for 25% of the electorate in the 2012 presidential election and helped President Barack Obama win among female voters overall. Recent polls have shown that married women support Clinton over Trump.
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The address, which leans heavily on Trump’s self-described “law and order” platform, cited statistics on the current state of crime in America.
