The Mississippi Federation of Republican Women’s First District Conference officially pledged their support to Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump at the Inn at Ole Miss on Saturday.
The conference featured speeches by U.S. Rep. Trent Kelly and four candidates in the race for the upcoming Mississippi Supreme Court election, as well as the chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, Joe Nosef.
“It’s a wonderful time for our ladies to come together and work towards a common goal,” the federation’s first district director, Kimberley Remak, said . “These women are hardworking women.”
The federation has a reputation as an instrumental group within state-level politics and is respected by the state’s most influential Republican politicians, according to Nosef.
“In politics, you have the talkers and the doers, and year in and year out, the Republican women are the doers,” Nosef said. “They work the polls. They do the poll watching. They do the non-sexy things that make the party work. Historically, they have always lived up to what they have obligated themselves to do, and they have done it well.”
This year’s district conference served as a time for candidates and benefactors to address the federation and personally thank them for their service to the party, as well as a chance to hear from the four candidates attempting to take the bench in the Mississippi Supreme Court this November.
The candidates spoke on a variety of issues, focusing on their experiences as trial lawyers and how they will fight for issues such as religious freedom and personal liberty.
According to Nosef, this year provides an opportunity for all members of the federation to go and help the Trump campaign in states outside of Mississippi to ensure Trump’s success in swing states such as Florida.
“The most obvious state is Florida, because Florida is so important,” Nosef said. “In the past, we have sent a couple busloads of people to campaign in a real grassroots manner to really try and do what George Bush did in 2004, which is just to mine more votes.”
Gov. Phil Bryant recently assumed the position of state director for Trump’s campaign in Mississippi, and as Nosef is keen to point out, he feels as if there is no better partnership than Trump and the governor.
“I can’t think of any two people who are less similar than Donald Trump and Phil Bryant, but that is one of the things that makes Phil such a talented politician,” Nosef said. “He has managed to get a great relationship with Donald Trump. I think they realize that there are places in the country that really need votes, real swing state areas, where maybe only Phil Bryant and two other people can reach those areas in how he talks about certain issues.”
Throughout the conference, it was clear that the federation and all the speakers in attendance planned to fully back Trump in the coming months.
“There is a movement, and it is coming from the spirit of a man that is under attack because he wants to be president of the United States,” Remak said. “I want to stand behind someone who is honest to me. Maybe Trump doesn’t always use the approach I would, but I truly believe that he is the one we need to be voting for November 8. And those are opinions that I feel like my other Republican women would share.”
