{"id":2366755,"date":"2024-11-10T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T14:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-frustrated-amish-might-have-turned-out-for-trump-in-pennsylvania-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-10T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T14:17:44","slug":"why-the-frustrated-amish-might-have-turned-out-for-trump-in-pennsylvania-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-frustrated-amish-might-have-turned-out-for-trump-in-pennsylvania-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the frustrated Amish might have turned out for Trump in Pennsylvania &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-the-frustrated-amish-might-have-turned-out-for-trump-in-pennsylvania-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2366755&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses how the Amish community in Pennsylvania, traditionally known for\u2063 their political detachment,\u2063 may have shifted their stance in\u200b the 2024 election, potentially\u2062 supporting Donald Trump due \u2064to \u2062grievances stemming from government actions against their farming practices. Specifically, the mobilization of Amish voters\u2064 was partly spurred by\u200c a\u2062 raid on a local Amish farm\u2064 owned by\u200d Amos Miller, which was\u200d involved in legal disputes with state and federal authorities over food safety regulations. This incident, perceived as\u200d government overreach, led to a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">voter \u200cregistration drive\u2014reportedly<\/a> the first \u2064of \u200bits kind\u2014aimed at mobilizing\u2064 the Amish population, even \u2062though the actual number of registered Amish\u2063 voters appears to be exaggerated relative \u200cto the community&#8217;s size.\u2062 Elon Musk, a key figure\u200b in Trump\u2019s campaign strategy, highlighted that the Amish community&#8217;s frustration \u200dcould be redirected into political \u200baction\u200c through voting. Despite this newfound political engagement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-sympathetic-but-cautious-of-shapiros-higher-ed-plan\/\" title=\"Republicans are supportive yet wary of Shapiro&#039;s higher education proposal\">experts express skepticism<\/a> about\u2062 the Amish&#8217;s\u200b overall \u200cvoting power, given their demographic characteristics, including a \u200bhigh birthrate that limits the number of eligible voters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Why the frustrated Amish might have turned out for Trump in Pennsylvania<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1624560\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The Amish might have gotten with the times and tried to play a role in President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump&rsquo;s\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> crushing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3223022\/donald-trump-returns-second-term-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump&rsquo;s\">2024 victory<\/a> because of a government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2894501\/raid-raw-dairy-farm-ignites-debate-freedom-food-consumption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">raid on a farm<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s victory was secured when he won the largest swing state&rsquo;s 19 electoral votes after losing it in 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Biz_Shrink\/status\/1853737142687498733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"According to\">According to<\/a> former Trump adviser Jan Halper-Hayes, conservative activist Scott Pressley registered 180,000 new Amish voters, though this is certainly an overestimate as Pennsylvania&rsquo;s Amish population is around 92,000, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/republicans-pursue-support-from-the-amish-in-pennsylvania-where-only-a-small-minority-vote-in-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"according to\">according to<\/a> the Young Center&rsquo;s research.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-81-election-fraud-cases-brought-to-courts-30-active-cases\/\" title=\"Report: 81 election fraud cases brought to courts, 30 active cases\">voter registration drive<\/a> was the first among the Amish in Pennsylvania history. According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who ran much of Trump&rsquo;s ground game, the Amish hadn&rsquo;t previously been mobilized &ldquo;in significant numbers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The reason for their sudden switch was a case of &ldquo;government overreach.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Democrats did make a mistake because there was government overreach with some of the Amish farmers,&rdquo; Musk said in an interview with Tucker Carlson. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re farmers. They&rsquo;ve been farming the same way for a long time.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And there was some &hellip; government overreach that shut down some Amish farmers, which really made them pretty upset,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;And you just need to be able to channel that, the fact that they&rsquo;re upset, like, well, there&rsquo;s a thing you can do about it, which is called voting, and we&rsquo;re happy to transport.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The conservative Christian community, which eschews modern technology, settled in Pennsylvania in the 18th century after William Penn offered them refuge from persecution and conscription in Europe. The community has boomed over the years, with many of the 400,000 residing in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Political involvement of the Amish is usually minimal, characteristic of their stance of isolation from the outside world. This changed in 2024, largely due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2894501\/raid-raw-dairy-farm-ignites-debate-freedom-food-consumption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"case\">case<\/a> of a government raid on an Amish farmer.<\/p>\n<p>Amos Miller&rsquo;s farm has been the subject of legal disputes with the Pennsylvania government and the Department of Justice for years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration connected it to a 2016 listeria outbreak that killed one person in Florida and sickened another in California, the National Agricultural Law Center <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalaglawcenter.org\/amos-miller-and-the-regulation-of-raw-milk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">reported<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ sued Miller in 2019 after it was found that his farm wasn&rsquo;t in compliance with federal regulations. After an E. coli outbreak and news that Miller didn&rsquo;t have a permit to sell milk in Pennsylvania, agents from Pennsylvania&rsquo;s Department of Agriculture raided his farm, seizing much of his food and dairy products. In the ensuing case, Miller was banned from selling milk in Pennsylvania, with the case ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The case was seen by the Amish community as government tyranny and helped mobilize them against the party of Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA).<\/p>\n<p>Around half of the Amish in Pennsylvania are based around Lancaster, and Trump won Lancaster County by 17 points. Other significant Amish populations are scattered across the state, including in Butler County.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, Steven Nolt, director of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, told PBS that the Amish voting population isn&rsquo;t very large, even when fully registered. Due to the high birthrate, less than half of the Amish are of age to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking a week before the election, he sowed doubt about whether they would vote in significant numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For most Amish history and in most Amish communities today, Amish people don&rsquo;t vote,&rdquo; Nolt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/republicans-pursue-support-from-the-amish-in-pennsylvania-where-only-a-small-minority-vote-in-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">told<\/a> the outlet. &ldquo;They haven&rsquo;t voted, they&rsquo;re not voting, and I think it&rsquo;s safe to say in the near future we wouldn&rsquo;t expect them to.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Even if we would imagine, for example, that here in Lancaster, there would be a tremendous percentage in percentage terms &hellip; we&rsquo;re looking at several hundred to maybe a thousand additional voters,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The true number of Amish who ended up voting is unknown, though sources <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/05\/us-news\/amish-turn-out-for-pennsylvania-vote-in-unprecedented-numbers-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Post<\/em> that they came out in significantly higher numbers than previously. One source told the outlet that the group turned out in &ldquo;unprecedented numbers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump won Pennsylvania by nearly 140,000 votes, with 98% reporting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1624560\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1624560\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amish support for Trump in Pennsylvania may stem from a farm raid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2366756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Amish-Trump.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[44712,5836,3634,44713],"class_list":["post-2366755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-amish","tag-pennsylvania","tag-trump","tag-voting-behavior"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Amish-Trump.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366759,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366755\/revisions\/2366759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}