CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio – A handful of men joined dozens of women on Thursday evening at the Cuyahoga Falls Pavilion for what was billed as a Women for Trump rally for the president’s re-election campaign.

Donning pink and red hats bearing Donald Trump’s name and his “Make America Great Again” slogan, attendees listened to speakers with local and national ties to the Republican Party and Trump campaign.

Jane Timken, the first woman to chair the Ohio Republican Party, kicked off the event and introduced LeeAnn Johnson, wife of U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson and co-chair of Women for Trump.

“Isn’t it great to think that 99 years ago, it was Republican women who advanced a movement and were victorious in achieving women’s right to vote?” Johnson said. “Tonight, right here, we are part of a movement equally important to women’s suffrage nearly a century ago.”

Johnson spoke mostly about health-care by criticizing Obamacare and proposals such as Medicare For All, and praising Trump for getting rid of the individual mandate penalty under the Affordable Care Act and vowing to lower the cost of prescription drugs.

A vote for Trump is a vote for “access to quality, affordable health-care” for women and their families, Johnson said.

“By reelecting President Trump, it is the greatest political opportunity to help women that has come along in decades,” she said.

The featured speaker of the evening was Madison Gesiotto, a Massillon native and Miss Ohio USA 2014, who writes political columns for The Hill and has been a commentator on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN. She worked as a spokeswoman for Trump’s inauguration and was a national surrogate during his 2016 campaign.

Invoking the phrase “fake news,” Gesiotto said the majority of media coverage of Trump has been negative and rarely shows his “incredible accomplishments.”

“I was with the President in New York just two weeks ago and I got to talk to him a little bit about 2020,” Gesiotto said. “He’s feeling really, really good about the results that he’s produced, but he’s, I think, definitely concerned that not everybody’s hearing about it. So he’s counting on people like you and I to spread the real facts in our communities, in our workplace, for the young people in the room, in your schools.”

Republican Joy Padgett, former state senator, Ohio House member and director of the Office of Appalachia, spoke about her “epiphany” to quit her job to campaign for Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Padgett emphasized the importance of registering people to vote, especially in an organized and strategic way so that registrants will vote for Trump.

Steve Buckingham, Ohio director of Trump’s re-election campaign, said organizers usually do a petition drive instead of a “full-on voter registration drive.”

“If you’re doing a petition drive... then we know we’re going to get more folks that are on our side as registered voters,” Buckingham said.

During a Q&A, a woman said she works at the Summit County Board of Elections and that Democrats are also registering voters.

“They dropped off 1,300 registrations and pretty much none of them are ours,” she said. “So the other side is out just as strong.”

Other questions during the Q&A concerned security at the polls. One woman was concerned that she wasn’t required to show an ID when she voted, but Buckingham said that isn’t required by law.

Another women said she “works the polls” on Election Day and sees people register to vote and vote the same day, which is not legal in Ohio. The organizers asked to get more information from her after the event.

Diana Thomas, 73, and Tom Thomas, 45, of San Antonio, Texas were on a road trip to visit family in Indiana when they found out about the rally and decided to make a stop in Northeast Ohio.

“I had never been to one of these, and we watch the rallies on TV, and you always feel afterwards that you want to be a part of something, so we thought this was a good place to start,” said Diana Thomas.

Tom Thomas said he wanted to attend the event because he’s a fan of Gesiotto and he wanted to show his support for conservative women.

“It’s my opinion that women and minorities get a lot more pressure to hide the fact they support Trump, you know what I mean?” he said. “Everybody needs as much support as possible so they’re not embarrassed or afraid to admit that they like Trump or they’re for conservative values.”

Diana Thomas left the rally feeling enthusiastic about the campaigns to register people to vote.

“It’s a good start,” she said.