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Via Anabaptist World
Pennsylvania Republican governor nominee Doug Mastriano, a state politician who has been connected to a CMC (formerly Conservative Mennonite Conference) congregation, lost his bid for election to the state’s highest office Nov. 8. His embrace of Christian nationalism, lack of faith in electoral systems and support from former President Donald Trump helped him win the primary with 44% of the vote but proved to be challenging baggage when courting general-election voters. Mastriano received 42% of the vote in a race that had been viewed a toss-up in early April before the primary determined the two main political parties’ candidates. Keep reading...
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Donald Trump lost Pennsylvania in 2020 by just around 80,000 votes out of more than 6.9 million cast for president. This year, in the background of the state’s governor’s race — in which Attorney General Josh Shapiro is expected to best State Senator Doug Mastriano — there’s a tension playing out among an unlikely group of voters with the potential to change future elections there: the tens of thousands of Pennsylvania Amish, Mennonites and other Christians in related sects who have traditionally refrained from voting. Keep reading... Via Lancaster Online
Two Amish businessmen from the state’s 11th Congressional District met with President Donald Trump at the White House last week. The delegation, which included four Amish men from Ohio and two from Indiana, are the first Amish to be hosted in the White House by a U.S. president, the Washington Times reported. In a Facebook post, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker said he was thrilled to have two Amish men from his congressional district included in the historic meeting with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. Keep reading... Via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A political action committee building support for President Donald Trump’s re-election bid is gearing up in southeastern Pennsylvania to once again reach out to an often overlooked group of conservative voters — the Amish. With its rolling fields and farms, most people don’t think of Lancaster County, home to one of the largest Amish settlements in the U.S., as a political hub. But it quietly hosts a number of politically active Amish — an invisible part of the voting population that helped turn the state red in the 2016 presidential election. Keep reading... Via PJ Media
Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Ohio on Wednesday to support Ohio's Republican candidates, making a stop in Mansfield to campaign for gubernatorial candidate Mike DeWine, Senate candidate Jim Renacci, and Congressmen Bob Gibbs and Troy Balderson. Along the way, the vice president carved out time to meet with the Amish community, many of whom attended the rally in Mansfield. Keep reading... Via The Economist
The Amish are members of a devoutly religious community with Swiss-German roots who rely on themselves. They do not pay Social Security taxes and lack health insurance. When somebody falls badly ill, the community chips in to pay for care. “They are the original Tea Party,” says Donald Kraybill of Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. Keep reading... Via Channel 4 News (UK)
The Amish of America famously shun television, cars, mobile phones, glitz, glamour or any hint of celebrity. So how come so many of them like the embodiment of all the above – President-elect Trump? Keep reading... Via The Record-Herald
The co-founder of the country’s first ever Republican Amish super Political Action Committee said there was a strong turn-out of Amish and Mennonite voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania for the presidential election and the organization is already looking ahead to the Ohio Senate race in 2018. Keep reading... Via PennLive.com
As the final vote tallies trickled in from Pennsylvania precincts, a man who worked to get the Amish community to the polls was still up watching returns in hopes his organization's impact would push Donald Trump to the presidency. Keep reading... Via PennLive.com
EAST LAMPETER TOWNSHIP -- The Amish Political Action Committee has been working to draw the relatively untapped Anabaptist community to the polls and Tuesday is the test to see if the turnout makes an impact on the 2016 election. Keep reading... |
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