Melania Trump has joined the campaign trail. She will be present April 6 at a fundraiser that is being billed as the largest single fundraiser of the 2024 presidential campaign cycle so far, to be held at Mar-a-Lago. It is predicted to raise tens of millions of dollars for the Donald Trump campaign.
On April 20, she will host an event for Log Cabin Republicans, a group of gay Republicans known as “the nation’s original and largest organization representing LGBT conservatives and straight allies who support fairness, freedom, and equality for all Americans,” according to the group’s website.
The group did not endorse Trump in 2016, but endorsed him in 2019, a year before the primaries.
Log Cabin Republicans has state and local chapters nationwide, full-time staff in Washington, DC, a federal political action committee, and state political action committees. The group’s website says: “Log Cabin Republicans are LGBT Republicans and straight allies who support equality under the law for all, free markets, individual liberty, limited government, and a strong national defense.”
Log Cabin Republicans have a “proud history of fighting to build a stronger, more inclusive Republican Party. LGBT Republicans and straight allies have chosen to transform the GOP from the inside, working to overcome the forces of exclusion and intolerance.”
The name of the organization refers to the first Republican President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, who was born in a log cabin.
When the organization was founded, the name, “Lincoln Club” was already taken by another Republican group, so organizers settled on calling themselves Log Cabin Republicans.
“President Lincoln built the Republican Party on the principles of liberty and equality under the law. The party should return to its roots,” the group says.
The Log Cabin Republicans will launch its 2024 “Road to Victory” initiative during the event at the resort in Florida, which is owned by the Trumps and is where they reside.
