In the news…
November 4, 2024
”Harris is counting on suburban women to help her win the presidential election. She received unexpected help from some longtime Republicans with the Women4U.S. group, an organization aimed at outreach to conservative women. Stephanie Sharp, a co-founder of the organization, is a self-proclaimed lifelong conservative. This year though, Sharp is urging fellow Republican women to vote for Harris. ‘We'll send Donald Trump packing, and then we can begin to have conversations again that are productive and have compromise on issues that are important to all of us,’ Sharp said.”
November 4, 2024
”Even people in safe red states came to canvass for the Harris-Walz ticket. Leaders of Women4U.S., a group of Republican women encouraging other Republican women to cross party lines in this election, came from Texas and Kansas to the Philadelphia suburbs. ‘If you have 100 units of energy, what is the best and most effective use of that,’ explained co-founder Stephanie Sharp. ‘In Pennsylvania, all of you are holding us on your backs because you’re voting for the rest of us in the 43 non-swing states. That’s part of the message, that your vote is so important and it’s not just for you that you’re voting.’”
November 3, 2024
”The gender gap in early voting was widest in Pennsylvania, where NBC News reported an ‘influx’ of new voters who are Democratic women in a state that is essential to Trump’s chances. Pennsylvania is one of the states being targeted by Women4U.S., a group of Republican, moderate and conservative women who are trying to persuade Republican women to back Harris.”
November 2, 2024
”The group Women4U.S., led by current and former Republican women, is reminding similarly minded women in swing states that their vote is private. ‘For many Republican women, they are fearful, genuinely fearful, of people in their lives learning that they’re going to vote for Kamala Harris,’ said Jennifer Horn, the former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party and now a political independent, who is working with Women4U.S.”
November 1, 2024
”Women are also leading turnout among both major parties, with Republican women narrowly outpacing men as of this week. Stephanie Sharp, a cofounder of Women4U.S., a PAC that has focused on getting Republican women in swing states to vote for Harris, noted that early voting has become an important tool for women who may also be balancing jobs and families.”
October 29, 2024
”’The primary goal is to defeat Trump,’ says Stephanie Sharp, a Republican from Kansas. She didn’t start out campaigning for Kamala Harris. Harris wasn’t even the candidate yet when she helped start Women4U.S. But she knew she wasn’t alone in her concerns about what could happen to American democracy and reproductive rights in a second Trump term.”
October 25, 2024
”’Republican women can tip this election,’ Brittany Prime, a self-identified moderate Republican and a co-founder of the anti-Trump organization Women4U.S., told me. Her group has identified nearly 400,000 ‘MAGA-exhausted’ women in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina, who, the group believes, can be persuaded to vote for Harris in November.”
October 18, 2024
”Jennifer Horn: One of the things that Women4U.S. has been doing is talking directly to voters in Pennsylvania, for example, where the Vice President was yesterday, speaking to Republican women voters who are very open to crossing that aisle and voting for Kamala Harris.”
October 18, 2024
”Brittany Prime, a cofounder of Women4U.S., a PAC aimed at persuading Republican women to vote for Harris, said Republican women, especially in the suburbs, could play a major role in swinging the state. '‘Kamala Harris is saying we have a place in her campaign and there’s room for everyone, and I believe her,” Prime said.”
October 18, 2024
”Women4U.S. political strategist Jennifer Horn said that while every presidential campaign tries to gain voters from across party lines, Harris’ campaign has ‘taken on something that’s completely different.’”
October 16, 2024
”Brittany Prime has spent the last several months talking politics with women a lot like her — women who usually vote Republican, and who find themselves uncomfortable with former President Donald Trump.”
October 16, 2024
”Jennifer Horn: I know from the work that I’ve been doing with Women4U.S. that there are thousands and thousands of Republican women in the swing states who have already decided that they’re willing to vote outside their party because of the issue of choice.”
October 16, 2024
”Today’s rally was in Bucks County, a key suburban Philadelphia battleground, where the campaign hopes to peel off Republican voters, especially women. We spoke to longtime national GOP strategist Jennifer Horn, now backing Harris.”
October 11, 2024
”Groups like Women4U.S. — a principled group of prominent Republican women who have been in the trenches fighting for conservative values for years — are mobilizing across battleground states to actively persuade women to not vote for Trump.”
October 11, 2024
”…a group called Women4U.S., which is laser-focused on Republican women that they think are persuadable, and they're spending a lot of time in those key seven states that we always talk about. They're looking at margins of maybe a few hundred thousand people here and there that they think could swing some of these key elections.”
September 30, 2024
”It takes real courage for Sofia and Republican women like her to speak out against Trump and announce their vote for Vice President Harris. This is how Republican women can make a strategic difference in the margins and to help bring Vice President Harris a victory on Election Day.”
September 26, 2024
”Women4U.S., the only organization of Republican women activating fellow Republican and center-right women to defeat Donald Trump, will roll out a set of four digital ads backed by a six-figure buy in Pennsylvania aimed at ‘Roe Republicans’ and others who could vote Democratic for the first time in their lives.”
September 5, 2024
”Stephanie Sharp, the co-founder of Women4U.S., an organization of center-right women working to defeat Trump, argued defeating Trump now would set the party up for a presidential win four years from now. ‘If Donald Trump wins this year, there is no way a Republican will be elected in 2028…’”
August 27, 2024
”Women4U.S., an organization working to convince Republican women to vote against Trump, has narrowed in on the Philadelphia suburbs as a key area. Stephanie Sharp, one of the group’s founders, said the chaos under Trump’s first administration is something Republican women didn’t want.”
August 21, 2024
”Renee Lafair, a co-founder of the group, said there are a lot of Republicans who are helping them organize behind the scenes, specifically targeting women in swing states. ‘There’s a real cost for people to publicly say they’re not supporting the top of the ticket on the Republican side,’ Lafair said. ‘There are a lot of people who are helping us quietly organize, and we’ve been happy with the response.’”
August 8, 2024
”’When women work together, they are a powerful force,’ said Horn ‘…Women4U.S. is committed to doing our part to defeat Trump by deploying thousands of women across the country to persuade their Republican and right-leaning independent women friends in swing states to become part of a winning coalition for Harris-Walz.’”
July 19, 2024
”’While 2,500 Republican delegates were gathering to nominate Donald Trump at the party convention in Milwaukee this week, a group of Trump opponents gathered four blocks away to talk about the existential threat the GOP candidate poses to the country. …Stephanie Sharp is a cofounder of the super PAC Women4US with the goal of mobilizing women voters in swing states, including Wisconsin, to vote against Trump. ”
July 11, 2024
“In one week, Donald Trump will accept the Republican nomination for president. Across our nation, Republican women are saying: enough. The current party is unrecognizable to many of us, and we must right the ship by defeating Donald Trump this fall.”
June 22, 2024
”’Pennsylvania’s closed Republican primary demonstrated an appetite for something better,’ said Sharp, whose group is planning outreach to Republican women in the most competitive presidential campaign states, including Pennsylvania. ‘Republican women have had enough of our votes being taken for granted,’ Sharp added.”
June 6, 2024
“Efforts like yours are going to be critical in making the needle move in November. I hope that people will really listen carefully to what you’re saying and get involved.”