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The scale of Donald Trump‘s election win was a jaw dropping in surprise to many across America on November 5.
But not for Ashley Hayek, the executive director of America First Works (AFW), a pro-Trump non-profit, who accuses the ‘establishment media’ of ‘gaslighting’ voters with talk of a tight race.
Hayek says the early vote tallies suggested Republican women were showing up while their Democratic counterparts were not, and that all swing states were winnable.
‘We felt very confident,’ she told DailyMail.com this week, while she was visiting Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida, for an annual AFW event.
‘It was no surprise when we saw the numbers.’
In the end, Trump won the electoral college by a thumping 86-vote margin, swept …