In front of an all-woman audience, Trump talks about women’s issues
Fox News town hall: Trump addresses women’s issues in front of all-woman audience in the era of the Dobbs decision
Former President Donald Trump attempted to reach out to women voters with a Fox News town hall that aired Wednesday morning. The all women audience had questions for Trump.
Trump heard from a friendly crowd on a range of issues, including child care and transgender kids in sports. He admitted in the town hall that some states have passed abortion laws that are too tough in the wake of the Dobbs decision. He also defended his comments to Maria Bartiromo over the weekend where he called some Democrats “the enemy from within” and said he’d use the military against them.
The crowd was overwhelmingly supportive of the former president, frequently bursting into loud cheers. Faulkner was friendly with her and shook her head after she saw a clip of a Democratic press call.
Many questions were not given clear answers by Trump. He slammed Biden and Harris’s record on the border when Faulkner asked him what he could honestly get done with Congress on immigration.
He said there is no country that can sustain this. “We’re a laughing stock all over the world. They’re laughing at our vice president.
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After one question asking how he’d help with the costs of childcare, Trump talked about growing the Child Tax Credit as president. He did it, but a lot of the benefit went to higher-income families. He said he wanted to bring down corporate taxes, and he wasn’t sure how he would help with the costs of raising children.
I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within. Not even the people that have come in and are destroying our country,” he said on Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures this week. Some of the people are very bad. Some people are sick and crazy. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”
The topic of abortion came up about 50 minutes into the broadcast. One questioner asserted, “women are entitled to do what they want to and need to do with their bodies,” and then asked, “Why is the government involved in women’s basic rights?”
Trump appointed three conservative justices to the Supreme Court, who all voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the federal protection of abortion rights.
The Harris campaign also released an ad before Trump’s town hall aired, featuring Hadley Duvall, a woman who was impregnated by her stepfather at the age of 12. Some states do not allow exceptions for victims of rape or incest.
“He spent $20 million on those ads trying to create a sense of fear in the voters, because he actually has no plan in this election that is about focusing on the needs of the American people,” Harris said, describing the issue of gender transition surgeries for prisoners as “really quite remote” compared to the biggest issues affecting American voters.
On the federal government paying for gender transition surgeries for trans prisoners or detained migrants, something Trump has spent millions of dollars on ads demonizing Harris for supporting, she said she would follow federal law. Harris also pointed to evidence that the Trump administration followed the same law.
On immigration, Harris expressed sympathy for the parents of young women killed in the U.S. by undocumented immigrants, but didn’t accept blame as Baier pressed her to do. She referred to the bipartisan border security deal that did not pass after Trump called on Republicans to tank it.
A top Harris campaign aide said that they have achieved what they set out to do, that she was able to reach an audience that had not been exposed to her arguments on the trail. “And she also got to show her toughness in standing tall against a hostile interviewer.”
“You and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military on the American people, he has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protest,” Harris said. He talks about locking people up if they disagree with him. This is a democracy and in a democracy the President of the United States, in the United States of America, should be willing to be able to handle criticism without saying he would lock people up for doing it.”
Trump said that they were the ones doing the threatening. They do fake investigations. I’ve been investigated more than Alphonse Capone was.”
Trump said in the town hall that the enemies were from within, and that they were very dangerous and sick.
She made sure to reference Donald Trump’s recent remarks that Democrats are the enemy within and that she took every opportunity to mention those endorsements. He has also said he might have to use the military to handle that enemy.
Harris ventured onto the openly pro-Trump network on a mission to reach moderate Republicans after earlier in the day appearing with more than 100 Republicans, including former Trump administration officials who have endorsed her.
“My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency, and like every new president that comes into office, I will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences, and fresh and new ideas,” Harris said. I’m a new generation of leadership.
About half way through the intense 30-minute interview, Baier asked Harris a question she didn’t answer very well in more friendly interviews last week on The View and on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: What would she do differently from President Biden? This time, she was prepared.