How Trump won Pennsylvania’s Amish vote — with the help of missionaries and Elon Musk
By Caitlin Doornbos
Published Nov. 12, 2024, 6:45 a.m. ET
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — About 100 miles west of Washington DC, at the nexus of quiet country roads, sits a network of bustling small businesses and community connections that helped deliver the swing state of Pennsylvania for President-elect Donald Trump.
For nearly a decade, with the smells of fresh manure and homemade shoofly pie in their nostrils, GOP operatives have worked diligently to register an under-courted voting bloc — the Amish.
Despite their efforts, attendance at the polls was long lagging, for a reason that escaped outsiders but was obvious to locals: Election Day falls on a Tuesday — but for many Amish, so does wedding day.
The deeply religious and rural group traditionally only holds marriage ceremonies on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the fall — just as harvest season kicks off.
So this year, a group of local Republicans came together to finish the work national Republicans started, by offering car rides directly to the polls from Amish weddings.
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