Stacey Williams appeared at the door of a dollar county home on Saturday morning, knocking on what would be door number 21 of his campaign period.

For much of the morning, Williams, 56, was met with unanswered doors, voicemails from Ring cameras or a man who angrily said he had already voted.

But when Margaret, a Lower Makefield resident who gave only her first name, answered the door, Williams found herself with a much more personal connection and a moment to share why she was out and about on this cold fall morning:

Williams, a former Sports Illustrated model who now lives in California, said she was sexually assaulted by former President Donald Trump in 1993, as convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein looked on.

Margaret’s face fell and she enveloped Williams in a hug.

“I feel for you, I feel,” Margaret said, adding that she couldn’t wait to vote on Tuesday.

Williams, who grew up in Wilkes-Barre and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, has been politically involved for 17 years and is spending the home stretch of the 2024 campaign in one of her home state’s most crucial counties, mobilizing democrats to cast your vote for vice president Kamala Harris while sharing her story and making connections with suburban women in Purple County along the way.

Saturday’s canvassing event, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, was the first time Williams knocked on the door since initially sharing her story. during a “Survivors of Kamala” Zoom call on October 21. That call was not related to Harris’ campaign, and Williams says her decision was not made in conjunction with the Democratic Party.

The Trump campaign has vehemently denied Williams’ sexual assault allegation. “These allegations, made by a former Barack Obama activist and announced on a Harris campaign call two weeks before the election, are unequivocally false,” Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for the Trump campaign, said in a statement. “It is obvious that this false story was concocted by the Harris campaign.”

Williams is one of about 27 women who say Trump committed sexual misconduct. The Republican candidate has never been criminally charged with such conduct, but was charged by a jury in a civil case in May 2023. found him responsible for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll.

Women in Philadelphia Neck Counties are prepared to help determine the outcome of the 2024 election after playing a crucial role in delivering Pennsylvania for president joe biden in 2020. On Tuesday, they could potentially make Harris the first female president of the United States.

Ben Romero, an organizer for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, said Saturday: “Bucks County is one of the most important places you can be today.”

The neighborhoods Williams visited were filled with crunchy fall leaves, remnants of Halloween decorations, and a palpable connection between her and the women she met.

“You know what’s going to happen if he’s elected,” Williams said of Trump to a woman who already voted.

“I know,” she replied.

“God Almighty,” another woman, a Harris voter, responded when Williams shared her story.

Williams appreciated the more personal atmosphere Saturday, after the global media attention his story received. She didn’t feel prepared to deal with the backlash in 2016 or 2020, she said, explaining why she didn’t come forward with the allegations against Trump until now.

“You would throw up if you saw some of the things people have said to me online,” Williams said while sitting in the backyard of a family of Yardley Democrats who offered their home as a campaign headquarters Saturday.

“But this is much more intimate,” Williams added. “Those women I spoke to were so warm and loving, like I knew they would accept the hug. “It shows, and women feel very connected right now in this country by what is happening.”

Helen Rosenthal, president of the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault, was at Saturday’s polling event and said Williams sharing her experience likely resonates with a third of women in the United States who have been assaulted, harassed or attacked in some way.

“If that helps frame it in a truthful way that provides support for voting for Kamala, then I’m very excited to do it,” Williams said of coming forward with her accusations against Trump. “I think women have had enough.”

While returning to her old Pennsylvania stomping grounds, Williams reminisced about her favorite pizza in northeastern Pennsylvania, visited Dutch Wonderland in Lancaster, and considered herself “rabid.” State of Pennsylvania fan” before Saturday’s loss to rival Ohio State, the team’s first of the season.

“No matter how long I’ve been away, I come back here and I love it. It’s familiar. My family is here. All my friends from childhood and high school are here. So the fact that the state I come from is also a swing state is kind of perfect,” Williams said. “It makes me even hungrier to get out the vote.”