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Amish PAC turns its sights to 2018 with help from Newt Gingrich

Ben King — Mon, 29 May 2017 13:54:36 +0000

The unprecedented effort to “unlock the Amish vote” in 2016 isn’t finished with the election of President Donald Trump. Amish PAC, launched last year by conservative Republicans with ties to Newt Gingrich and Ben Carson, has begun fundraising again with its sights on the 2018 midterm elections.

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Amish PAC vying for conservative votes

Ben King — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 08:10:07 +0000

Amid the green pastures of northern Indiana County, nearly 3,000 Amish live their plain and simple lives, rejecting the trappings of modern life, maintaining rigid conservative views on everything from education and religion to child-rearing and taxation.

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Amish for Trump

Ben King — Sun, 29 May 2016 19:55:45 +0000

The Amish don’t read Donald Trump’s tweets and can’t watch his television appearances, and voting is practically against their religion.

But that’s not stopping a group of Trump allies with ties to Ben Carson and Newt Gingrich from mounting a campaign to turn them out anyway.

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New PAC looks to get Amish vote for Donald Trump

Ben King — Sun, 15 May 2016 08:10:56 +0000

Conservative Republicans with ties to Newt Gingrich and Ben Carson have launched an effort to drive Amish and Mennonite voters in Lancaster County and Ohio to the polls this fall

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New Republican Super PAC Wants to Get Amish to Vote for Trump

Ben King — Fri, 13 May 2016 19:30:12 +0000

From Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, to the nonstop cable news coverage, the 2016 election has been nothing if not digital. For most of the country this has made politics inescapable, but not for the technology-averse Amish community, who are at a considerable remove from the election.

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