Twins Samantha and Sarah Hagmayer are young, female, Republican, and they support Donald Trump.

"He's a winner. I like his policies. I think he's the best fit for the country," Samantha said.

The New Jersey twins are part of a group called Students for Trump and they are using social media to mobilise young voters in the strategic game to make him president.

Samantha and Sarah are fully behind the Republican Party's presumptive nominee and all he stands for.

"Check it out, this is all of our Trump gear. We've got our flag on display, and we've got a nice collection of books, videos, first season of Apprentice."

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They say Mr Trump has been misunderstood and his comments about women have been overblown by the media.

"The media's taken a little snippet of what he says... And they turn it into a thing that's not what he said. They twist it up to make him look like the bad guy," they said.

"For the past eight years we've been growing up in this political culture of political correctness and you're not really allowed to say what you feel or how you want to say it because God forbid you offend someone or hurt someone's feelings."

The twins are up against it. Polls show almost three quarters of Republican women do not like Mr Trump.

A New York Times article titled, Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women In Private, examines Mr Trump's treatment of women over his lifetime, implying inappropriate advances and language.

Mr Trump says it is all part of a witch-hunt and he has labelled the New York Times "one of the most dishonest media outlets I have ever seen in my life. The worst."

One of the women quoted in the article now claims she was misquoted.

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Women also a factor in Clinton campaign

Against that backdrop, supporters of Democratic party hopeful Hillary Clinton are working out how to take advantage of Mr Trump's weakness with women voters.

Susan Ness, a Clinton supporter, said they are hoping Republican women who cannot bring themselves to vote for Mr Trump will swap parties to vote for Ms Clinton instead.

"I can't tell you how many Republican women have said to me quietly, they're going to be voting for Hillary," she said.

While Ms Clinton has almost double the female support as Mr Trump, she has struggled to reach young female voters who see her as lacklustre and unlikeable.

Jay Newton-Small, Time magazine's Washington correspondent, has written extensively about women's role and influence in American politics and says the women's vote will again decide who gets into the White House.

In every election since 1980, female voters have outnumbered men.

"It's almost insurmountable the amount of damage [Donald Trump] has done with women, and then running against the first female candidate, it's really, really hard to imagine how he wins the White House," she said.

Ms Newton-Small acknowledged that Ms Clinton also has her own popularity problems with young women.

"But the one thing that really helps her out is the fact that Donald Trump is the one person who is even more unpopular with young voters than she is," she said.

But the Hagmayer twins prove there may be an exception to the rule.

"It's a topic in the media — women don't like Trump. It's like well Hello! Yes we do, we're here, we love Trump."