If we get the Amish and Mennonite vote in PA, MN and elsewhere (updated) ...

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Why is Donald Trump targeting the Amish vote in Pennsylvania?

The religious community traditionally abstains from taking part in elections, but Republicans believe their votes could be crucial in the US presidential election

Why is Donald Trump targeting the Amish vote in Pennsylvania?

The religious community traditionally abstains from taking part in elections, but Republicans believe their votes could be crucial in the US presidential election.

Henry Stoltz, a vegetable farmer, has registered to vote but has not decided who for

Traditionally in the past they wanted little to do with government, believing instead that they serve the higher kingdom of God.

Now, among this deeply religious community known for rejecting modern technology, the attitude to politics is changing and the “Amish vote” has been relentlessly targeted in one of America’s swing states.

“Trump has some good ideas, especially on the economy,” Henry Stoltz, an Amish vegetable farmer, said. “But you see, I don’t like his morals.”

Stoltz, 45, who sells the pumpkins, apples, potatoes and squash that he grows at a country market in Manheim, Pennsylvania, is a member of the Trump campaign’s latest target demographic — one that it believes could put the former president back in the White House.

Pennsylvania is the most hotly contested state in the run up to next month’s election, and, with 19 electoral college votes, the most coveted. Overall victory is considered very unlikely for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris if they fail to win here.

Joe Biden won the state by 80,000 votes in 2020, and 90,000 Amish live in Pennsylvania — many of them in the, traditionally Republican, Lancaster County.

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