A Pennsylvania mother was pleasantly shocked Monday when former President Donald Trump gave her $100 to put toward her grocery bills during a campaign swing through the Keystone State — though she now says she doesn’t plan on using the cash.
“I’m gonna frame it,” laughing mom of three Jenny Kantz told “Fox & Friends” Tuesday, one day after the 45th president greeted her at Sprankle’s Neighborhood Market in Kittanning, 35 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Jenny said she had been told that Trump wanted to meet a customer at the checkout counter, but she had no idea he was going to hand her a crisp Benjamin.
“We were hoping for an opportunity to meet him. And the fact that he handed us $100 was a complete surprise and it was a great experience,” she reflected.
Kantz’s husband Bryant added that the 78-year-old was “very personable.”
Grocery prices have shot up more than 20% since the Harris-Biden administration took office, with Trump and Republicans blaming trillions in new federal spending for the price bulge.
“Inflation on groceries has definitely affected us,” Jenny Kantz said Tuesday, adding that the bill for her most recent visit “was $194 and some change.”
“I think it was late 2022 or early 2023, I remember coming home from the grocery store and telling him [Bryant], ‘I don’t even know how to budget for groceries anymore, because it’s like every time I go to the store, they just go up and up and up,’” she recalled.
“We watch a little bit more closely what we spend.”
During Monday’s encounter, which was shared by the Republican’s campaign team, Trump approached Kantz at the checkout line.
“Here,” he said, handing her the money. “It’s going to go down a little bit.”
“It just went down $100,” he added. “We’ll do that for you for the White House, all right?”
Pennsylvania has 19 Electoral College votes, the most of any of the seven battleground states, which is why both campaigns have aggressively homed in on the Keystone State.
Trump held two events in Pennsylvania Monday before heading to Georgia for an event in Savannah Tuesday.
Polls have consistently shown that Trump has an advantage over his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, when it comes to the economy.
A recent national NBC News poll found that voters trust Trump more on the economy than Harris by 50% to 41%.
Harris has sought to counter Trump’s messaging on the economy by rolling out a plan to ban so-called price gouging, which has been widely panned by economists.
