Pennsylvania, with its 19 electoral votes, was considered the swing state on which the 2024 election would depend. In the end, It looks like Donald Trump will beat them all in what was a decisive victory nationally. In his third attempt for the American presidency, he managed to win a majority in the popular vote and the Electoral College for the first time.
In the Keystone State, he received more than 50% of the vote, surpassing Biden’s 2020 margin of victory. currently over 130,000. Netizens and Trump supporters are praising Scott Presler for putting Pennsylvania back in the “Red” in recent years through his get-out-the-vote efforts in the state, especially in the Amish community.
Scott Presler’s Story
Presler has been a conservative political activist since 2016 when he served as regional field director for the Republican Party of Virginia. He is openly gay and was a co-founder of the LGBTQ coalition ‘Gays for Trump’ that same year.
He became one volunteer for ‘ACT for America’ and an anti-Muslim advocacy groupthe following year. He helped organize ‘March against Sharia’ events. He also organized urban cleanup events in Baltimore and Los Angeles, where dozens of volunteers removed trash from the streets.
After the 2020 election, he participated in “Stop the Steal” protests questioning the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory. He has also helped spread a wide range of conspiracy theories, including those about QAnon.
The conservative influencer has done just that built an online following of nearly 2 million on his X account under the flag ‘The persistence‘ where he says, ‘I helped defeat Hillary and Kamala and organized the Baltimore cleanup. We delivered Pennsylvania for President Trump.”
How the Activist Boosted the Amish Community’s Vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 US Elections
In 2021, Presler settled in Pennsylvania, where he has been working to get voters registered and encouraging them to support Trump. He targeted unions, hunters and specifically Amish communities.
For this last group he used the case of a local farmer whose dairy was raided by state authorities for selling raw milk, unpasteurized, without a permit, as an example of government overreach. He also focused on the Republican Party’s position on freedom of religion and education, along with business deregulation.
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There have been reports on social media credit him with registering 180,000 Amish voters in Lancaster alone. That would be pulling a rabbit out of the hat, as there is fewer than 93,000 Amish of all ages in Pennsylvaniaand about half of them are too young to be eligible to vote.
Proving how effective his exit efforts were will also be an uphill task that requires close scrutiny. Steven Nolt, director of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, said WHY that only a handful of Amish vote, usually less than 10% of them.