Washington delegate admits it wasn’t easy to board the ‘Trump train’

Freddie Simpson of the Washington State National Committee tells KIRO Radio’s Jason Rantz why she is “on the Trump train” at the Republican National Convention. Simpson, of eastern Washington, admits Donald Trump was about 16th on her list of potential presidential candidates.

My journey to understanding Trump took a lot of different turns, but what really got me to understand was people have been screaming at the op of their lungs for something to change. And it took somebody as flamboyant, loud, opinionated like Donald Trump to latch on and now be heard. And I have to understand that they were screaming at me and I’m going to respect their vote.

Jason Rantz: Why was he not originally on the top of your 13 list?

I love diplomacy. I want someone in leadership that can tell me to go to hell in such a way that I look forward to the trip. Donald Trump hasn’t done that. I’m just looking at my type of personality. He doesn’t have my personality. As a woman, I didn’t like what he’s called women. I didn’t like the way he treated Megyn Kelly. There are a 100 things …

JR: Are you going to vote for him?

Absolutely. I’m on the Trump train now. Like I said, my journey to get there took a while longer than some others, but what sold me was not only the people that voted for him, but I also look at his family. I’m thinking of his ex-wives, mistress, kids — they’re all together. There’s a glue there.

JR: You like that he has a mistress?

No, no, no. When he was married to Ivana, Marla Maples was his mistress. I go back that far. As a woman, a man like that doesn’t appeal to me. But somehow he’s been able to get the ex-wives to come together with the kids and there’s a glue in that family that we haven’t seen.

JR: So that’s how he brings together Republicans and Democrats — you have to cheat around a little bit?

No, I don’t want anybody cheating. That was the last piece of the puzzle. What I’m saying is, something is going on behind the scenes that we’re not seeing when you have a family that is that intelligent and yet that vocal, and that stuck together as a unit, I’m impressed … I hope now that what we can do is make sure we can work together with him, tone down some of the rhetoric, work towards a common goal, and, like his statement, make America great again.