--- title: Donald Trump Tries to Appeal to Female Voters in Ohio description: Donald Trump created an all-female team, known as the Trump-Pence Women's Empowerment Tour, to help woo female voters in Ohio, canonical: https://time.com/4487499/donald-trump-womens-empowerment-tour/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-12T15:52:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:21.254Z og:title: These Women Are Leading the 'Trump-Pence Women’s Empowerment Tour' og:description: 'We are not politicians, we are civilians' og:url: https://time.com/4487499/donald-trump-womens-empowerment-tour/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9003e39f3adfff1c/6988a591cf40a81f9ec44c58/donald-trump-womens-empowerment-movement.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: donald-trump-womens-empowerment-movement og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Women Are Leading the 'Trump-Pence Women’s Empowerment Tour' twitter:description: 'We are not politicians, we are civilians' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9003e39f3adfff1c/6988a591cf40a81f9ec44c58/donald-trump-womens-empowerment-movement.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These Women Are Leading the 'Trump-Pence Women’s Empowerment Tour' by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 12, 2016 3:52 PM UTC  Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic/Getty Images; Tasos Katopodis—WireImage/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 12, 2016 3:52 PM UTC It’s no secret that [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4476276/founding-fathers-donald-trump/) doesn’t necessarily have [women’s issues](http://time.com/4441052/donald-trump-women-issues/) at the forefront of his campaign. That doesn’t mean, however, that he isn’t trying to win over some [women voters](http://time.com/4414067/donald-trump-pollster-kellyanne-conway-women/) from Hillary Clinton’s side, especially in swing states like Ohio. Trump created an all-female team, known as the Trump-Pence Women’s Empowerment Tour, to help woo female voters in the crucial swing state, Politico [reports](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/trump-takes-aim-at-clintons-lead-among-women-227998). Six women are currently leading the Trump-Pence female empowerment charge: [Katrina Pierson](http://time.com/4436473/trump-spokeswoman-blames-obama-for-humayun-khans-death-but-gets-her-history-wrong/), Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, reality television star Omarosa Manigault, YouTube stars Diamond and Silk, and a vice-president at the Eric Trump foundation named Lynne Patton. Lara Trump appealed to the crowd in Ohio saying, “We are not politicians, we are civilians. We really don’t have any idea what we’re doing, except we said, ‘We’ve got to go out and tell people what a great guy Donald Trump is.'” [_Follow Motto on Facebook_](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/)_._ In addition to appealing to women, the Trump-Pence Women Empowerment Tour is reaching out to women of color especially. Trump is the only one of the six women who isn’t a woman of color. She said, “If you look at the make-up of our tour, we have a very diverse group here, the majority of ladies are African-American. It speaks to who Donald Trump is, these are all women he’s touched in very different ways.” Mandy Finn, a Republican who runs a women’s advocacy group, called out Donald Trump’s efforts of appealing to African American voters. She said, “I’m sure he’d like to win more minority voters, he’s really struggling [among African Americans](http://time.com/4472906/donald-trump-african-american-struggle/) … Showing that he has a diverse set of supporters is an effort to beat back this notion he’s a racist. Whether that can be effective or not, I think it’s difficult. He has been his own worst enemy.” \[[Politico](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/trump-takes-aim-at-clintons-lead-among-women-227998)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4487499/donald-trump-womens-empowerment-tour/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4487499/donald-trump-womens-empowerment-tour/"},"headline":"These Women Are Leading the 'Trump-Pence Women’s Empowerment Tour'","datePublished":"2016-09-12T15:52:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:21.254Z","description":"'We are not politicians, we are civilians'","url":"https://time.com/4487499/donald-trump-womens-empowerment-tour/","keywords":["motto","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9003e39f3adfff1c/6988a591cf40a81f9ec44c58/donald-trump-womens-empowerment-movement.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9003e39f3adfff1c/6988a591cf40a81f9ec44c58/donald-trump-womens-empowerment-movement.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"donald-trump-womens-empowerment-movement","caption":"","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic/Getty Images; Tasos Katopodis—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4487499/donald-trump-womens-empowerment-tour/","name":"These Women Are Leading the 'Trump-Pence Women’s Empowerment Tour'"}}]}] ```