All I know is that he supports me, I support him. I’m not making any statements on behalf of the President, whether he’ll come to visit or not. “What the President needs to do, the President needs to do. “Do you know that I spent a million dollars of my own money in the primary?”, Epstein revealed.Īsked if she would like Trump to campaign for her, Epstein sidestepped the question. “I’m a very, very unusual candidate in an exciting way.”įollowing another Trump precedent, Epstein is now publicly fundraising for her campaign after mostly self-funding her primary race. I’m a very rare candidate,” Epstein exclaimed repeatedly during the interview. Epstein claimed her account had been hacked and demanded an apology from Dillon. Last year, Michigan Democratic Party Chair Brandon Dillon circulated screenshots showing Epstein’s Twitter account to have “liked” posts by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke that praised the Charlottesville white-nationalist rally. Similar to Trump, Epstein has had her own share of Twitter controversy. Trump recently returned the favor with a tweet of support a day after she won the Republican primary. “Didn’t our parents all teach us that actions speak louder than words?” she asked rhetorically. In an op-ed published in October of 2016, identifying herself as a Jew, a woman and a millennial, Epstein defended Trump’s “less than eloquent soundbites” on the campaign trail. “I am an unapologetic Republican Jewish woman who loves Israel, who loves the Jewish community, who is a business owner and a job creator.”Įpstein served as the Trump campaign co-chair in Michigan, a state Trump carried with just over 10,000 votes in the 2016 presidential election. “I believe that I am being called to be the champion of the relationship between the United States and Israel once elected to the United States Congress,” Epstein declared in a phone interview with Jewish Insider when asked why she’s leaving the business world.
Nonetheless, the seat is rated as a “toss-up” by Cook Political Report. President Donald Trump carried the 11th Congressional District in the last presidential race and RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel lives in the district. Epstein is vying for the seat of retiring Congressman David Trott, a two-term Republican, who handily won his reelection bid in 2016. Plans with partial or no data reported did not receive a rating.Jewish, Female Congressional Candidate Who Is Unabashedly Pro-TrumpĪmid a season of history-making candidates that have emerged victorious in primaries across the country in recent weeks, Lena Epstein, if elected in November, would be the only Jewish Republican woman in Congress.Įpstein is a third-generation owner and general manager of Vesco Oil Corporation, the business her grandfather Eugene Epstein founded in Southfield, Michigan in 1947. Ratings based on NCQA Health Insurance Ratings 2015 – 2016.
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