Mom-of-five's clever strategy saw millions vote for Trump and she knew they'd won before polls opened

The standard of Donald Trump's election triumph was a jaw dropping successful astonishment to galore crossed America connected November 5. 

But not for Ashley Hayek, the enforcement manager of America First Works (AFW), a pro-Trump non-profit, who accuses the 'establishment media' of 'gaslighting' voters with speech of a choky race. 

Hayek says the aboriginal ballot tallies suggested Republican women were showing up portion their Democratic counterparts were not, and that each plaything states were winnable.

'We felt precise confident,' she told DailyMail.com this week, portion she was visiting Mar-a-Lago, Trump's edifice successful Palm Beach, Florida, for an yearly AFW event. 

'It was nary astonishment erstwhile we saw the numbers.'

In the end, Trump won the electoral assemblage by a thumping 86-vote margin, swept each 7 battleground states, and made consequential gains successful bluish cities and suburbs and among Latino and achromatic voters.

Hayek, 40, is present viewed arsenic a apt prosecute for the incoming Trump administration.

The mom-of-five comes from Clovis, successful cardinal California, and studied governmental subject astatine the University of California, San Diego, earlier launching her archetypal company, a governmental fundraising firm, successful that metropolis erstwhile she was 22.

She says she gets face-time with the erstwhile president 'every fewer months' and counts his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, arsenic her 'closest relationship' successful his family.

She's besides connected first-name presumption with Kimberly Guilfoyle, 55, the glamorous fiancée of Donald Trump Jr, who was antecedently a Fox News big and joined to California Democratic politician Gavin Newsom, she says.

While celebrating the predetermination triumph this week, she posted connected Instagram the 'iconic moment' of seeing Trump and his authorities ratio tsar, Elon Musk, sing God Bless America unneurotic connected signifier astatine an event. 

The woman of US marine Brian Hayek operated under-the-radar successful the 2024 race.

Though not a subordinate of Trump's ceremonial run team, her methods for tracking down hard-to-reach voters and links with dozens of allied groups is credited with driving up turnout successful the plaything states wherever it mattered.

AFW's 3,500 paid door-to-door canvassers turned up astatine doorsteps immoderate 5.7 cardinal times crossed Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and different plaything states, arsenic immoderate 29 cardinal run substance messages bombarded compartment phones, she says.

'Our precedence was to crook retired radical who did not ballot successful 2020, oregon radical who ballot successful 1 successful each 4 elections,' she says.

She says the crushed crippled was 'pretty phenomenal' and, though a accepted run successful galore respects, was astatine times consenting to effort 'unconventional' approaches to way down 'low propensity' voters.

Canvassing teams usually commencement enactment aft Labor Day, says Hayek. AFW, however, was knocking connected doors successful June. 

If voters needed assistance getting to a polling station, a rideshare work was arranged.

Planners besides took a caller attack to run substance messages, which person go a nuisance for plaything authorities residents, who kick of their compartment phones pinging incessantly with spam successful predetermination years.

When SMS recipients complained, their reply was routed to a quality volunteer, who would past onslaught up a chat with the voter, says Hayek: 'They were blown distant that idiosyncratic really work their message.'

Impressive wins successful specified bluish strongholds arsenic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Saginaw, Michigan, were aided by section recruits knocking connected doors and helping Trump container a combined 34 electoral assemblage votes, says Hayek.

She credits a dedicated 'team of 20 Arab American canvassers' for helping to flip Dearborn, Michigan, to Trump, wherever pro-Palestinian voters were aggravated implicit the Biden administration's enactment for Israel.

Hayek besides lauds practice among scores of like-minded organizations for rallying circumstantial groups of voters, specified arsenic Moms for Liberty, the Association of Mature American Citizens, and Hunter Nation, for weapon enthusiasts.

Women were a concealed limb successful getting Trump backmost successful the White House, she adds.

The Democrats believed women would rally down them successful enactment of entree to abortions. Instead, says Hayek, they 'stayed home' and conservative women turned retired successful unit to support trans women retired of women's bathrooms and sports teams. 

She spoke with DailyMail.com this week arsenic Trump named his picks for cardinal posts, including Florida legislator Marco Rubio arsenic Secretary of State and House firebrand Elise Stefanik arsenic his UN ambassador.

Hayek says she's pursuing the unreserved of nominations, but that she is 'not truly reasoning about' what relation she whitethorn play successful the Trump administration. Still, she does not regularisation retired joining his team.

'I person 5 kids, ages 13 to two. I had to enactment my kids successful backstage schoolhouse … due to the fact that of the woke docket from the extremist near being shoved down our family's throats, particularly successful a authorities similar Virginia,' she says.

'My role, whether it's astatine AFW, oregon anyplace else: I consciousness passionate astir moving guardant the America First docket and supporting this caller medication arsenic overmuch arsenic we perchance can.'