10-30-2020, 03:21 PM
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Even her phone message — “God bless you and have a Trumptastic day” — gets in a pitch for the president.
The 48-year-old, who helped organize Team Trump PA and became a local leader of Women for Trump, took her devotion to Donald Trump to the heavens. On April 24, 2016, she helped organize “Jump for Trump,” a parachute jump designed to draw support to then-candidate Trump.
Trump was a good fit for the high-energy woman who began her professional career in talk radio in South Carolina and was among the first Western Pennsylvanians to embrace the Tea Party.
”My first impression of Donald Trump as he was coming down the escalator and he was introducing his campaign to the rest of the world was that he was going to solve all of the issues that were directly affecting my family, such as health care, illegal immigration and the veterans, and basically everything he spoke about that day was affecting my friends and family and folks I knew who were hurting,” Cunningham said.
Cunningham said she spent years living in South Carolina. She said frightening issues with illegal immigrants in that state’s vacation communities were covered up so tourism wouldn’t suffer. And she said she learned firsthand of the shortcomings in health care when her husband suffered a catastrophic accident and mounting hospital bills nearly resulted in the loss of the family home.
Although others see a lack of empathy in Trump, she sees someone who wants to help families like hers.
“He’s the guy who wants to get things done. He cares,” Cunningham said from her home, where the rustic decor is accented by her collection of Trump regalia.
She said she has seen a side of Trump few do. He’s written notes to her small granddaughter and promised a visit at next year’s Easter egg hunt.
“He’s a good man,” she said.
As if to go “Jump for Trump” one better in this campaign, this year Cunningham drove 7,538 miles through 21 states in 23 days to participate in Operation Flag Drop, where she delivered flags for the Trump campaign.
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The Tribune-Review talked with 8 Western Pennsylvania voters who have gone above and beyond in their support for their candidate. Over the next week, we will be profiling them and their reasons for backing Democrat Joe Biden or President Donald Trump.
Photo by Kristina Serafini
Read all the profiles here: http://trib.me/supersupporters
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