In a June 2019 LinkedIn post titled “I’m Living Proof – The Party of Healthcare Is Trump’s,” Harp revealed she was a “Millennial woman fighting cancer” who was left “housebound and searching for care” after a nurse mixed up her IV “with a deadly substance of sterile water” in November 2015.
Slamming Joe Biden’s pledge to cure cancer if elected, she continued, “Instead of studying my symptoms to diagnose my condition, my Democrat-controlled state and country offered me opioids, barbiturates, medical marijuana, disability, Do-Not-Resuscitate orders, and yes, Death With Dignity. Before one appointment, I was even instructed in the voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED). According to the Democrats, healthcare is a right. But a right to what – all of the above? No, thank you.”
Harp then credited Trump’s “Right to Try” – which expands access to experimental drugs for terminally ill patients – as something that saved her life.
“While some may argue that this legislation has not benefited the terminally ill or was repetitive to existing law, I beg to differ,” she wrote, in part. “My oncologist didn’t tell me I had other options. Donald Trump did. So I found another oncologist who was willing to try a different approach—an FDA-approved immunotherapy drug for an unapproved use. Now my numbers are stabilizing and so is my pain.”
She further shared her experience during an appearance on Fox & Friends, prompting the president to praise her on X after the show.
“Natalie Harp, fighting Stage 2 Cancer and doing really well, was a GREAT guest on @foxandfriends. Right To Try is producing some truly spectacular results. Proud of Natalie!” Trump wrote at the time.
She was then tapped to speak at the 2020 Republican National Convention, where she said Trump saved her life with the Right to Try Act.