Why Former Obama Fundraiser Now Backs Trump

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

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Allison Huynh was a fundraiser for then-Sen. Barack Obama before he was elected president in 2008, but she now supports former President Donald Trump. Huynh (pronounced like “win”) and her husband were attracted to Obama’s message of “hope and change” in 2007. “It was the hope and the image that he projected” that led Huynh to not only support Obama herself in the 2008 election, but encourage others to do likewise. As an entrepreneur and successful computer scientist in Silicon Valley in California, Huynh hosted fundraising dinners for Obama with tickets costing $50,000 a plate. But after Obama won the election and took office in 2009, Huynh says, disillusionment began to set in. A Vietnamese immigrant, Huynh says the disillusionment “started with Barack Obama and this lack of logic in terms of how he led,” but it didn't end there. Huynh calls diversity, equity, and inclusion “Marxist and doublespeak” because “equity is what you get when you work for something.” Equity is not won because of the “color of your skin” or “identity politics,” Huynh contends. “This doesn't make sense. It erodes away from what it is to be an American, right?” Asked why she is now supporting Trump, Huynh says that after meeting Trump, she found him “very open” to considering policies that serve tech entrepreneurs like her. Huynh joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to share her story of disillusionment with the Democratic Party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, July 18th. I'm Virginia Allen coming to
0:11.7	you from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
0:15.4	where I had the opportunity to sit down with Allison Wynne.
0:19.2	Allison and her husband were Major Barack Obama supporters back in 2007. In fact, they hosted major
0:26.2	fundraisers for him, dinners that were as much as $50,000 a plate.
0:32.1	Wynne says that she and her husband were excited about the message of hope that they saw
0:36.2	Barack Obama bringing, but when he was elected quickly became disillusioned with him and the
0:41.7	Democrat Party. Today, Allison is backing former President Donald
0:46.6	Trump for president. Allison is an entrepreneur, she's a successful computer scientist
0:52.0	and, like I mentioned mentioned she also is a former
0:54.2	Barack Obama fundraiser stay tuned for my conversation with Allison right after this. This is Rob Bluey from The Daily Signal.
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1:37.3	Well, I'm so glad to be joined here today by Allison Wynne. She's an entrepreneur. We are at the
1:44.6	Republican National Convention here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1:48.6	Allison, thank you so much for taking the time to be here today. Thank you for Virginia.
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