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Former Trump aide Hope Hicks, who served as White House communications director for President Donald Trump and later as counselor to the president during his first term in office, published an opinion editorial in the New York Post on Monday, just one day ahead of Election Day, and explained why she firmly believes Trump is about to win his bid for the Oval Office once again.
Hicks, 36, first started out working for the Trump Organization shortly after graduating from college. When Trump launched his 2016 presidential campaign, Hicks served as press secretary and early communications director for the campaign, and then joined the Trump administration when Trump was elected. She left in 2018, but returned to serve as counselor to Trump in March 2020. She left again on January 13, 2021, just a week before the end of his term in office.
Below is an excerpt from her op-ed in the New York Post:
Almost 10 years into former President Donald Trump’s historic political movement, his critics still cannot grasp what makes him so popular with everyday hardworking Americans — and they still demonize the men and women who support him.
President Biden smearing them as “garbage” was obviously not only offensive but just plain wrong: Trump’s supporters are good, decent people who believe he will make their lives and America better.
Why? Because he did it once already.
In early 2015, I was working in communications at the Trump Organization when Trump, my boss, told a small group of us he would be running for president. From our first trip to Iowa that January, I knew he was going to win.
Sure, our team consisted of exactly zero professional politicos. Most of us had never even been to Iowa before. But this undeniably talented candidate, from the very beginning, was offering the kind of leadership Americans were craving.
He was politically incorrect, saying things that were obvious and true. He was at times brash and controversial. He simultaneously became a pariah to the media and political class, and beloved by the people.
Hicks explains that Trump was always “authentic to his core,” and when one staffer suggested he should carry his own suitcase from his plane to “look more like a regular guy,” he refused, arguing that people would know it was phony.
In the early months of his first presidential campaign, Hicks said Trump would always sit in the front passenger seat of whatever vehicle they were traveling in, “shaking hands and signing autographs for the supporters who ran after us when we stopped at traffic lights.”
He was also the one who placed the order for food at the McDonald’s drive-through window, and always took time to listen “to each person who approached with a story of a lost job or a family hardship.”
“While other candidates ate corn dogs at the state fair, Trump offered rides in his helicopter,” Hicks recalled.
“The unbroken trust between Donald Trump and his supporters grew from those encounters. He looks directly into the eyes of those who thought they were forgotten, or fear being left behind, and he tells them he sees them, he hears them, and he’s fighting for them,” she wrote.
“People understood he wasn’t going to apologize for his success — and that he wouldn’t apologize for America, either. He reminded people the American dream is something to strive for, and it’s within reach when you have the right leadership,” Hicks wrote.
And although much has changed since 2016, “Trump is still facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles and relentless attacks, and Americans are again craving strong, common-sense leadership,” Hicks wrote, adding, “He is still the same incredibly hardworking, patriotic person I knew then — more determined than ever to fight for this country and make it better for everyone.”
“I voted for Donald Trump in 2024 for the same reason I worked on his campaigns and in his White House: because I know the American people can count on him.”
Hope Hicks goes on the record to urge others to “vote for Donald Trump”:https://t.co/lXXCEVDj8E
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) November 4, 2024
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