Utah Rep. Mia Love: Trump 'obviously' doesn't understand GOP's issues with minority women [View all]
SALT LAKE CITY President Donald Trump does not understand the Republican Party's issue with minority women, outgoing Rep. Mia Love said Tuesday during a panel discussion at the Women Rule Summit in Washington.
"Obviously not. I mean, that's just, it really is a given," the two-term Utah GOP congresswoman who lost her re-election bid said to laughter from the audience at the daylong summit sponsored by the online political news source Politico.
Love said her Haitian-born parents who live in Connecticut are a "clear example" because they supported the Republican president even though they felt it was "not nice" when he used an expletive to describe their homeland.
But then Trump mocked their daughter for losing her 4th Congressional District race at a post-election White House news conference even before Democratic Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams was declared the winner.
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