Tiffany Trump and Ivanka Trump pose for a photo with an Atlanta area businesswoman during a campaign stop Wednesday.

MARIETTA, Ga. — Donald Trump’s daughters were in the Atlanta area Wednesday to try to woo a demographic that has largely withheld support from their father — women.

After meeting with campaign volunteers, Ivanka Trump and Tiffany Trump met with Atlanta-area businesswomen who packed into a cozy conference room to share their concerns about taxes, overregulation, childcare costs and other issues. 

Ivanka Trump also used the opportunity to plug her father’s proposed childcare polices. 

“Most people are blown away to hear that the cost of childcare now exceeds the cost of housing as the single-largest family expense in over the half the homes in this country,” she told the group. “So it is an enormous issue.”

Ivanka Trump is an executive with her father’s company who has her own jewelry line that is geared toward professional women. She’s also a mother. 

Her voice has been an important one in the campaign of her father, the Republican presidential nominee, especially as it has been stymied by controversies related to his missteps and alleged mistreatment of women.

The campaign has been embroiled with scandal ever since the emergence of an 11-year-old “Access Hollywood” recording that captured Trump making sexually explicit comments about women.

He denied actually carrying out the unwanted sexual contact he described, which prompted 11 women to come forward with accusations that he had. Trump has also denied those accounts. 

Ivanka Trump has said little about her father’s troubles, other than telling Fast Company magazine earlier this month that the recorded comments were “clearly inappropriate and offensive.”

It didn’t come up Wednesday, but she briefly discussed the cutthroat nature of politics.

“It’s been challenging at times. It’s a tough business, politics — not for the faint of heart,” she said. “But it’s been amazing.”

Polls show Trump’s support from Georgian women lagging behind that of Democrat Hillary Clinton.

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution survey shows the gulf could be as much as 11 points, although another new poll puts Clinton and Trump neck-and-neck with support among women. 

Men, on the other hand, tend to strongly favor Trump. The Republican is favored to win the traditionally red state.

Kelly Kennedy, who works in television advertising and voiced her frustration with family’s tax burden at the meeting, said afterward that the polling doesn’t match what she sees.

Trump, she said, has ample support among women. 

“I love that he empowers women, and his daughter is a great example of that,” she said. 

Still, she said, she hasn’t completely committed to voting for Trump. 

It’s not the negative headlines that hold her back. Both candidates, she said, “come with their own type of baggage.”

She said Trump’s lack of polish and leadership style bother her. But she thinks his polices are most aligned with what is best for her family, and he offers a chance for change.

“I love that he’s a disrupter,” she said.

The Trump sisters’ Georgia stop came as more than one-tenth of registered voters had already voted as of Tuesday night, with the state into its second week of early voting. In 2012, a little less than half of the ballots were cast before Election Day.

Tiffany Trump also has connections to Georgia: Her mother, Marla Maples, hails from Cohutta in north Georgia. That was enough for Rayna Casey, who chairs Trump’s state campaign, to “claim her as a Georgia peach.”

Jill Nolin covers the Georgia Statehouse for CNHI’s newspapers and websites. Reach her at jnolin@cnhi.com.