March 10, 2025 • 30 mins
In this episode, Scott Presler discusses his journey from a non-political background to becoming a prominent figure in Republican voter registration efforts. He shares insights on grassroots organizing, the importance of targeting specific communities, and the strategies he employs to engage voters in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Presler emphasizes the need for the Republican Party to adapt and listen to grassroots movements, highlighting the potential for significant electoral gains in upcoming elections. It's a Numbers Game with Ryan Girdusky is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network. For more visit natpop.substack.com
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back to a Numbers game with Ryan Grodowski. What
can I say about this week's episode. It's about a
place where men were born to run, a place that
gets slippery when wet, and it's not a nursing home.
It's a retirement community. Yes, I'm referring to the great
state of New Jersey, home of Bruce Springsteen, John bon Jovi,
and the Sopranos. This episode is all about New Jersey
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and whether or not it can become America's next swing state.
But before I talk about the Garden State, I want
to go back in time a little bit, all the
way to the year two thousand. That election obviously was
important for a number of reasons. It elected George W.
Bush as the forty third president. It was the first
election year that Hillary Clinton won an election on her
own for the United States Senate in New York and
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began her political career, which obviously didn't go to the
places that she dreamed. And it would be the last
time that the state of Vermont would elect a Republican
to the United States Senate after having consistently elected Republicans
for over a century. But most importantly, it created the
modern political map Now there have been six elections since
the year two thousand, and for the most part, they've
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kind of more or less looked a lot the same.
Thirty five states have voted the same exact way in
all seven elections from two thousand to twenty twenty four. Now,
you might say fifteen states is a lot that have
changed direction over that time, and that's true, fifteen states
is a lot. But if you cut up the states
that have only voted one time at the last seven,
so like voted six of seven times the same exact way,
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like New Hampshire, for example, or North Carolina or Indiana.
And if you take states have only voted twice in
in a different direction five of the seven, six of
the seven or seven and seven states that have voted
the same exact way in the last seven consecutive elections,
you only have nine states left that have continuously flipped
back and forth for a quarter of a century. Nine
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states is not that many, especially when you consider that
in the seven elections before two thousand, that would be
going back to the in nineteen seventy two, there were
only thirteen states that voted the same exact way. I mean,
you can throw in a few more states that only
voted bublic in one time, like Minnesota, which went Republican
in nineteen seventy two, or only went Democrat one time,
which would be like Texas in nineteen seventy six. The
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ma gets a little more full, but you get my point.
There were a lot more flippable swing states in the
previous three decades that in the post two decades since
the year two thousand. Now a number of states worst
swing states since two thousand have become reliably blue like
Oregon or Colorado, or reliably red like Tennessee, Missouri or Ohio. Yes,
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Tennessee Missouri worst swing states back in the year two thousand,
but only one state went from being reliably red or
reliably blue to becoming a state that is the other way,
and that's Virginia. Virginia was a reliably red state is
now a reliably blue state. And only af handful of
states have really gone from being reliably red or blue
to even being swing states, like Georgia and North Carolina.
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It's kind of that mid Atlantic strip right there that
has seen a tremendous population growth from people all over
the country and the world coming So with the post
two thousand election. We've become very use to the idea
swing states in America is only going to get smaller
and smaller and smaller. But in twenty twenty four it
reversed because a number of states moved sharply the right. Florida, Iowa,
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Ohio are no longer considered swing states. Trump won them
all by over ten points. Texas, which Democrats had hoped
and believed that they were in their grass by the
end of the decade, that's kind of just gone out
the window. Now. New York moved eleven points towards Republicans,
California moved nine, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island seven, and Illinois six.
But even that tremendous growth to the right by those
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swing states, that dramatic swing towards Trump, none of them
can be considered swing states because they're so far left
to begin with. California, for example, would have to repeat
that same swing two more times to even be considered competitive.
New York would have to move that entire eleven points
all over again to be competitive, and then still it
wouldn't be a reliably red state. But that takes us
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back to New Jersey. New Jersey swung ten points to
the right, with Trump Winny forty six percent of the
vote to Kamala Harris's fifty two two percent. This is
the best any Republican has done in the state since
two thousand and four, when George W. Bush only lost
it by six point seven percent to Democratic nominee John Kerry,
and only the third time in the last thirty five
years that a Republican came within single digits of flipping
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this very blue state. So in twenty twenty four, New
Jersey was basically as blue as Arizona was red. And
if Arizona is a swing state, then is New Jersey.
That's the big question that I'm going to sit there
and grapple with because something else is going on. It's
more than a single election, It's more than just Trump.
Every month since June of twenty twenty one, Republicans have
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been registering more new voters than Democrats, sometimes by a
few hundred, sometimes by several thousand, but it's added up.
In June twenty twenty one, New Jersey had two point
five to five million Democrats and one point four to
six million Republicans and another two point four to three
million independents. And I'll break down numbers like this, New
Jersey had one hundred and twenty thousand more Democrats than
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independents and one million, ninety thousand more Democrats than Republicans.
So fast forward to twenty twenty five, when the new
registration numbers just came up on March first. March first
one twenty five, Democrats had two point four to four
to eight million registered voters, Republicans had one point six
one million, and independence had two point four million. Now,
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I know it's a lot of numbers. Are just throw
a to you. I'll make it easy outbreak down this way,
the Democrats voter advantage. Voter enrollment advantage in New Jersey
went from one point zero nine million to eight hundred
and thirty four thousand, so two hundred and sixty thousand
voter advantage collapse over the course of four years. People
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registering for third party Actually, if you can mind, all
the third parties have forty thousand more voters than Democrats do,
which wasn't the case New Jersey. Usually Democrats were always
the dominant party. And now remember voter registration changes like
people changing their voter orstration. That is usually the last
part of some one's political evolution. In other words, people
will switch how they vote. They'll switch to what podcast
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they listen to, what papers they read, how they vote
in local elections, usually in the national elections, or vice versa,
depending on which election is coming up. The last thing
to change is someone's actual voter registration. That's the last
thing that's that they're going to do. They will be
a registered Democrat and but Republican or vice versa, sometimes
for decades before they actually make the switch, which is
why I state like West Virginia or Kentucky or Louisiana
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had huge Democrat voter advantage dating back from the nineteen fifties,
even though they'd been Republican states for many, many many years,
going back to the Regular Revolution and Nixon Revolution. But
that's the case for New Jersey. We're seeing this mass
swing to the right, and we're seeing it with people
actually re registering to vote. Twenty twenty four was not isolated,
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wasn't in a bubble. Twenty twenty four was the third
consecutive election that New Jersey moved to the right. In
twenty twenty one, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, he was
supposed to sail to an easy reelection victory. Most polls
had him winning between nine and eleven points, and he
ended up winning by just three against Jack Chitdarelli, who
was running again for governor this year. Three points was
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a shocker, and Jack Chitdarelli did not have national support.
In twenty twenty two, Republicans gained a congressional seat in
the state, despite it being massively jerrymandered in favor of Democrats.
In twenty twenty two, Republicans actually gained a congressional seat
in the US House delegation, and the state's voting population
moved five points to the Republican that was in the
midterms of twenty twenty two. They moved another three points
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in twenty twenty four in the House. Now, it hasn't
all been smooth sailing for the New Jersey GOP. They
did lose six state Assembly seats in twenty twenty three,
but that was mostly due to redistricting. Republicans have actually
only decreased their support in that massive landslide loss by
two points in the popular vote from the previous year
when they won six Assembly seats. Yet all this proves
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is that there's a slow but progressive drum beat tours
the GOP in the Garden State. Who knows. Like I said,
we've been here before. George W. Bush became very very
close to putting New Jersey in play in two thousand
and four. I'll bite with a much different coalition. He
had a lot more suburbanites in places like Morris County,
while Trump has a lot more urban and minority voters
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in places like Pa sae It County. But he was
the first Republican since George H. W. Bush to get
that close in nineteen ninety two. So nineteen eety two,
two thousand and four, in twenty twenty four, it's almost
like every decade or two we're seeing this swing. This
could be the permanent one though, If the realignment is real,
If these former Democrats with heavy emphasis on the ethnic
white Italians like an Ocean County and Asians and Hispanics,
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it's all very possible that this will be the coalition
that makes New Jersey into play, makes New Jersey the
next swing state. One last set of numbers before we
get to our guests. An Emerson College poll, which is
a hit and miss polling company. It's not my favorite,
but I'll take it because it's not the worst. In
late January, they found that President Donald Trump is more
popular than Democratic Governor Phil Murphy in New Jersey. Phil
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Murphy is leaving office with a forty four percent approval rating,
which isn't terrible, but when you consider among Republicans it's
only fourteen percent and among independence is twenty seven percent,
you realize on just how much he needs Democrat how
much only Democrats are really supporting him, and supporting him
by a lot. So could this mean that we end
up with the red New Jersey, a Republican governor in
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the state or Republican legislature. Let's talk to our guest
who's trying to make it all happen. You're listening to
It's a numbers game with Ryan Grodowski. We'll be right back.
Scott Pressler has become iconic among Republican circles, being over
six feet tall with long brown hair flowing beautiful brown hair.
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People have taken notice because he's one been outspoken Trump supporter,
but also because he's done the really hard work of
registering new voters. He runs the nonprofit Early Vote Action,
intending to register voters and get them to get Republicans
vote early, which would be wonderful. Scott, thanks for being
on the show.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Hey, thank you, Ryan.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, we delivered Pennsylvania last year and this year we
were headed to the Garden State.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, the episode's all about New Jersey. So I want
to know before we get started. You know, people have
known you for going out and registering voters and writing
letters before that. I remember when you used to write
letters thank you people vote for voting for Trump. This
is back in like twenty seventeen. How did you get
started in politics and was this always your ambition to
work in politics.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
No, I never thought I would be doing this life.
I graduated from college. I couldn't find a job despite
graduating with a three point six y three in criminal justice.
But this was under Obama. The economy was heearable. It
was hard for millennials to find their place in society.
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And so as I'm walking dogs for a living, as
I'm working at an elementary school, which were not my passions,
but I understand that those are good integral parts of
our society. I went, gosh, we can continue on this
direction with President Obama, or I can be a cog
in the machine and I can try to change society
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for the better, and so in twenty fourteen, I moved
to Texas.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
That's why I always have cowboy boots.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And my first political job ever was helping to elect
now Governor Greg Abbot down in Galveston, Texas. And so
for me, it's really been over the last decade a
political evolution of going from starting with Governor Abbot to
defeating Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen to protect the Supreme Court,
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to doing trash pickups in twenty nineteen inspired by President Trump.
Oh yeah, and now I'm really I think seen as
one of the voter registration gurus on the right that
has become a political strategist for the Republican Party.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah. You know, Scott, You're one of the people that
I can kind of relate to the most in the
sense of like you have an idea and you put
the wheels behind it and you just make it happen.
There's really no fixed, you know, job, Like you probably
don't know what you're going to be in five years,
but if you if your brain thinks of something worth
running towards, I'm you could probably do it. It's a
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very unusual like life, and there's not many people I
know who kind of have it. So I just thought
of that, like, so what you do is not easy,
and I'm seeing you give a lot of seminars and speeches.
You kind of spurred this like voter registration, grassroots effort, right,
how is that? How did that come about? And what
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is that like?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Net So, going into twenty eighteen, I was working for
a not for profit that I couldn't be political, And
I want to make it clear. Early Vote Action respectfully
is a political action committee or APAC, so we can
take unlimited contributions, but we are not tex depectable and.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's Early Voteaction dot com. So I just want to
make that clue now.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
No, it's important, it's important.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
And I knew that twenty eighteen had the potential to
be really bad for the president. You know, the Democrats
kept saying over and over that Hillary won the popular vote,
and you know, that was the me too movement, and
it was the year of being a woman, and I
was like, gosh, twenty eighteen is going to be so bad.
So a month before the election, I was like, Okay,
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I need to quit my job. I'm going to do
everything I can, travel to Florida and New Jersey all
over and try to keep members of Congress in those seats. Now,
ultimately we lost it, and so going into twenty nineteen
was a regrouping period for me. And I was like, Scott,
you have no job with Scott. The Republican Party right
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now just lost big time. What are we going to
do to shake things up? And I just had this
idea pop into my head, kind of like what you
said just a moment ago, and I went, You're going
to travel.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
The country and you're going to teach people how to register.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
To vote, because even the Republican Party is not doing
the grassroots organizing required in order to win elections. My
first event, Ryan was in Connecticut, where they have more
cows than people over in that state. And my first event,
and I think it was dan Berry, we got protested
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because I think the Democrats knew, Wow, this guy, if
we don't stop him now, is going to become an
organizer within the Republican Party. And despite the fact that
they protested us, we had more than double, perhaps triple
the amount of attendees. And I literally just started going
across the country from Connecticut to Fuquey, Verina, North Carolina,
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down to Sarasota, Florida, and each of them I did,
gathered more attendees, got bigger, My social media profile grew,
and people went, Wow, this guy is getting stuff done.
And so I spent twenty nineteen through twenty twenty two
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all on my lonesome organizing, traveling probably forty plus states
across the country, teaching people how to register other people
to vote.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, it was really inspiring. First of all, I think
I'm going to start talking about myself in third person
when I'm having internal conversations like you. I think that
that would be really good for me. But to know
that it was I as I mean, we started, I
don't even know what we met, but I saw the
growth happen, and I saw the growth happen very quickly
because it is very hard work and it's something that
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is not sexy and it's not glamorous, and most people
don't want to do because there are easier, sexier, glamorous
things to do. When we talked, we spoke in twenty
twenty four or twenty twenty three, whatever. I mentioned to
you that there were forty four million non college educated
white Americans who were not veraged voting. Two point eight
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million were in Pennsylvania. What did you notice in Pennsylvania
that other people didn't like? How did you even find
how to like non registered people?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Well?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I am very much a data guy and mathematical and
so here's how I approach elections. I went, gosh, Joe
Biden quote unquote one a Pennsylvania by eighty thousand votes
in twenty twenty, and I went, okay, how are we
going to recoup those eighty thousand voters and turn those
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into Republicans? And so I went as opposed to conversion
and persuasion, which are important. Don't get me wrong. We
need to be in the business of courting Democrat voters.
But ultimately, there are so many Republicans that are not
registered to vote. Eighty thousand truckers in Pennsylvania. I would
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assume logically the majority of those are going to be Conservatives.
My organization is really vote Action. So I went, okay,
a trucker is probably not voting because that person is
busy serving us and they're probably driving rigs on election day.
Let's get them a meal in ballot, Let's get them
to vote early and lock in those eighty thousand votes.
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Then we have the Amish community over especially in the
hub of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Now, this community, let's be real.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Governor Shapiro, a Democrat, has been attacking, waging a war
on their raw milk, their dairy they're farming. Then you
have society as a whole, which is coming down on
their bodily autonomy to choose not to have a vaccine
put into their children, their families. And then you have
the government coming down on their religious freedom and their
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school choice. And it just clipped, and I said, why
are we not making a real concerted effort to register that.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Amagh to vote?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Knowing Ryan that they get married on Tuesdays in November, y'all,
what happens on Tuesdays in November election day.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Let's get the homage to Meilan Ballot. Let's get it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
They only get married on Tuesday November.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
They get married largely on Tuesdays in November.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yes, I never knew that before. Okay, that's fascinating, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh yeah, oh no.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
And it was like a full circle moment because this
was like a week prior to the twenty twenty four
deadline to register to vote, and we're over in Lancaster
at an Amish benefit and this Amish woman comes up
to check her status because she can't do it herself online,
so we did it for her. She wasn't registered, they
removed her, so we got her registered and she goes, oh,
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you know what, I'd better get myself a meal on ballot.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm going to three weddings on election day. And it
just went.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
It was like an Aha moment that what I had
been practicing in the field had been come into fruition.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
And we used mail in.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Ballats to deliver President Trump the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Then
we have eight hundred thousand veterans in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is
the fourth largest home to veterans in the entire nation.
So we went to every VFW, we went to every
American legion, and you would be shocked by the amount
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of veterans that tell me, Scott, I already served our country.
I already did my part. I don't have to vote
because I already stopped communism overseas. And so really that's
where I come in. And we have to court them
and say, listen, thank you so much for your service.
We're so grateful for your sacrifice. But communism is here
domestically it's on our shores, and this is something we
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must be continuously vigilant by voting here in our country.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
And last, and probably the most important, and you'll notice
all of these groups. What were you talking about with
the forgotten men and American people, the white working class, Well,
if you look at the demographics, I would assume that
a lot of truckers are of that group, the homisher
of that group, veterans are of that group. And last, hunters,
three thousand hunters in Pennsylvania, thirty percent, three zero are
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not registered to vote. That's three hundred thousand votes.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
That is game over. That is the election. We went
to every gun shop, every gun show, and I do
believe that our work at early vote Action registering fifty
five zero thousand voters helped to deliver the Commonwealth and
two congressional seats Ryan mackenzie and Resnahan protecting.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Seven eight right.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Seven and eight, and then protecting Scott Peri in tenths
over in York, Adam Staffin. And then last, the most
important thing that we helped deliver as a family was
Senator Dave McCormick.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Right, I mean his vote, his election was very very tight.
So yeah, absolutely, I completely agree you're listening to It's
a numbers game with Ryan Gerdowski. We'll be right back
after this message. Going back to New Jersey. You know
in twenty twenty one that Phil Murphy the governor, won
by eighty four thousand, two hundred and ninety four votes.
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That was his margin of victory over Jack Chidrelli. The
Republicans since them have one hundred and seven thousand new
voters and Democrats have lost one hundred and twenty eight
thousand voters. There's clearly momentum Republicans in the state, in
the Garden State. What is your goal then, going forwards
is how many you want to write short to vote next?
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I guess seven months or whatever it is. Six months.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Sure, well, it's kind of it's kind of fortuitous that
I would be heading to New Jersey, a state that
was lost by approximately eighty thousand votes, and twenty twenty
one after helping to deliver Pennsylvania, another commonwealth that was
decided by eighty thousand votes. And so my feeling in
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this race is, as you just mentioned, the numbers are
already moving in our direction. Republicans have gained, Democrats have lost,
and in fact, if you have been looking at the data,
and the month of January, Democrats lost two thousand voters statewide.
Republicans gained ten thousand in January. Then the Secretary of
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State did a purge in the month of February that
Democrats lost eighty seven thousand voters. Republicans lost thirty seven
thousand voters, for a net loss for Democrats of forty
nine thousand voters. So when you take that twenty twenty
one was decided by eighty thousand and the Democrats already
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done down approximately fifty nine thousand, that shows me. Listen,
my New Jersey people that are listening right now, if
we get every single Trump voter out to vote this
year on Tuesday, November fourth, twenty twenty five, you will
replace Democrat Governor Murphy with a Republican governor.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Period.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Now is does you do amazing? Where is the R
and C doing anything to help you?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I will say I want to give a shout out.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
So here is a departure, and look, I'm not here
to I'm not here to be antagonistic. That's not my goal.
I'm a nice guy. Let's just say the previous administration
did not invest in twenty twenty one in New Jersey. However,
you know what's already happened, Ryan and February, just a
week ago, Chairman Michael Wattley was at an event in
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New Jersey. Casey Crosby, the coach here that replaced Laura Trump,
is doing in a event with me on March.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Thirteenth with Chairman Carlos Santos and Union County, New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And I know, I know we're talking New Jersey right now,
but this is important. You know what's happening on April first,
there's a Wisconsin Supreme Court election that is going to
decide which party controls the Supreme Court going into twenty
twenty eight. Casey Crosby, that beautiful coach here that we
have with the rn C, she is already coming to Wisconsin,
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something that the RNC didn't do in twenty twenty three
when we lost the Supreme Court. So this new RNC
is transformative and is finally listening to the grassroots and
is working with the grassroots.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Now. Union County, for those who don't know, is very democratic.
It's in the metropolitan New York City area. That's where
we saw the biggest Republican growth in the last election,
huge growth in Passaic County up everything near it touches
the New York City metro area and Kathy Hokals congestion
taxes not popular in that area. I will tell you
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as a as a lifelong New York it's not really
popular outside Manhattan. The Have you noticed any continued push
from these areas. There's a lot of Hispanics, a lot
of Asians, But I mean, have you seen this kind
of continued change? What have they said to you? If
you've met any voters who changed their minds?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Well, part of it is seeing the change in leaderships.
So number one is Carlos Santos, clearly of Hispanic descent,
is now the chairman of Union County. He wasn't He
earned his way into that position. And over in Kenilworth
at a VFW hall just weeks ago, we had two
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hundred and forty six attendees in February in New Jersey
and Union County. It's nice saying those momentum and Bean County.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
By the way, you cannot get two hundred and forty six.
There weren't two hundred and forty six Republicans, let alone,
I mean two years ago. It is I think Union County,
I'm pretty sure was the only county Chris Christi loss
when he had his landslide in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I'll look that up later.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I might be wrong. I'm pretty sure that I'm corrected
as the only county loss. That's how democratic it was,
despite winning the state by twenty points, super democratic. I
cannot believe there were two hundred and forty six Republicans
in a single room in the county.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Oh oh well, what we're going to do is, when
this clip is up there, this audio, I'm going to
reply with the video of me with the two hundred
and forty six people behind me. Because you know that
I like to show the work that I do, and
so there's a Scott Presler video for every single event
that I do.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
But I do want to give a shout out to
Passaic County. There's a wonderful man.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
His name is Anthony and he is the owner of
gunn for Hire in Passic County, New Jersey. Now, as
you mentioned, there are two very critical communities that are
within this county that I think are going to be
decisive to try to our Republican candidate winning the governorship
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this November and those are a the Hispanic community, but
especially our Puerto Ricans and our Dominicans. They are heavy
in this district. And you know what gives me hope.
We did a training over at gun for Hire. We
were registering people to vote. I taught voter registration. We
even registered one of the workers, the young people that
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was getting people's waivers to go and shoot there at
the establishment, and several members of Hispanic community that are
running for State Assembly came over to me.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
These were all young Hispanic men and it was just
so cool to see that the tide is.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Really shifting and that the Republican Party is this faith, family, finance,
freedom party, and I think that is what is attracting
the Hispanic community to us. But one community that we
also must continue to shore up, especially after the track
jity of October seventh, is the Orthodox Jewish community. There
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was a lot of room for growth, and so we
are making a concerted effort to get the Orthodox in
Pasaic registered. And also over in a town called Lakewood,
over an ocean.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Super super super Jewish, they actually elected. They voted for Trump.
I used margins and they elected a Democrat for the
state House who was a Rabbi. I don't think that
that guy can hold on though, because Orthodox usually have
huge turnouts in off yr elections, but when everyone's voting,
the numbers aren't that high. So hopefully we'll be in
back that seat too well.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
And Republicans were also smart, Ryan, because what we did is, look,
we understand the different needs of the state. The June
tenth primary, New Jersey June tenth primary, so everybody registered
with a party so you can vote in your closed primary.
They actually moved it back a week because of the
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religious recognization of one of the spiritual holidays that they're having.
So that shows me that the Republican Party is listening
and they're going, Wow, we can get more people to
vote if we choose a date.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's not on a religious holiday.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well, Scott, I gotta tell you, in Passaic County, usually
the only reason Dominicans and Puerto Ricans would be getting
together at a gun show is to shoot each other.
But they're getting together for you because you are bringing
every louve, bringing to quote the great Moire Rose from
schitz Creek. You have all the bigger of a wartime operator.
Thank you so much for being on this show where
can people go to get involved, get active and join
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your organization?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Thank you well. I want to be clear.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
In addition to our work helping to flip the New
Jersey governorship from blue to red on Tuesday, November four,
twenty twenty five, we are continuing our work in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. We are going to be expanding to Nevada,
and in twenty twenty six, we're going to help President
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Scott, you are so great. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
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Welcome back to a Numbers game with Ryan Grodowski. What
can I say about this week's episode. It's about a
place where men were born to run, a place that
gets slippery when wet, and it's not a nursing home.
It's a retirement community. Yes, I'm referring to the great
state of New Jersey, home of Bruce Springsteen, John bon Jovi,
and the Sopranos. This episode is all about New Jersey
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and whether or not it can become America's next swing state.
But before I talk about the Garden State, I want
to go back in time a little bit, all the
way to the year two thousand. That election obviously was
important for a number of reasons. It elected George W.
Bush as the forty third president. It was the first
election year that Hillary Clinton won an election on her
own for the United States Senate in New York and
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began her political career, which obviously didn't go to the
places that she dreamed. And it would be the last
time that the state of Vermont would elect a Republican
to the United States Senate after having consistently elected Republicans
for over a century. But most importantly, it created the
modern political map Now there have been six elections since
the year two thousand, and for the most part, they've
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kind of more or less looked a lot the same.
Thirty five states have voted the same exact way in
all seven elections from two thousand to twenty twenty four. Now,
you might say fifteen states is a lot that have
changed direction over that time, and that's true, fifteen states
is a lot. But if you cut up the states
that have only voted one time at the last seven,
so like voted six of seven times the same exact way,
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like New Hampshire, for example, or North Carolina or Indiana.
And if you take states have only voted twice in
in a different direction five of the seven, six of
the seven or seven and seven states that have voted
the same exact way in the last seven consecutive elections,
you only have nine states left that have continuously flipped
back and forth for a quarter of a century. Nine
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states is not that many, especially when you consider that
in the seven elections before two thousand, that would be
going back to the in nineteen seventy two, there were
only thirteen states that voted the same exact way. I mean,
you can throw in a few more states that only
voted bublic in one time, like Minnesota, which went Republican
in nineteen seventy two, or only went Democrat one time,
which would be like Texas in nineteen seventy six. The
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ma gets a little more full, but you get my point.
There were a lot more flippable swing states in the
previous three decades that in the post two decades since
the year two thousand. Now a number of states worst
swing states since two thousand have become reliably blue like
Oregon or Colorado, or reliably red like Tennessee, Missouri or Ohio. Yes,
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Tennessee Missouri worst swing states back in the year two thousand,
but only one state went from being reliably red or
reliably blue to becoming a state that is the other way,
and that's Virginia. Virginia was a reliably red state is
now a reliably blue state. And only af handful of
states have really gone from being reliably red or blue
to even being swing states, like Georgia and North Carolina.
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It's kind of that mid Atlantic strip right there that
has seen a tremendous population growth from people all over
the country and the world coming So with the post
two thousand election. We've become very use to the idea
swing states in America is only going to get smaller
and smaller and smaller. But in twenty twenty four it
reversed because a number of states moved sharply the right. Florida, Iowa,
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Ohio are no longer considered swing states. Trump won them
all by over ten points. Texas, which Democrats had hoped
and believed that they were in their grass by the
end of the decade, that's kind of just gone out
the window. Now. New York moved eleven points towards Republicans,
California moved nine, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island seven, and Illinois six.
But even that tremendous growth to the right by those
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swing states, that dramatic swing towards Trump, none of them
can be considered swing states because they're so far left
to begin with. California, for example, would have to repeat
that same swing two more times to even be considered competitive.
New York would have to move that entire eleven points
all over again to be competitive, and then still it
wouldn't be a reliably red state. But that takes us
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back to New Jersey. New Jersey swung ten points to
the right, with Trump Winny forty six percent of the
vote to Kamala Harris's fifty two two percent. This is
the best any Republican has done in the state since
two thousand and four, when George W. Bush only lost
it by six point seven percent to Democratic nominee John Kerry,
and only the third time in the last thirty five
years that a Republican came within single digits of flipping
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this very blue state. So in twenty twenty four, New
Jersey was basically as blue as Arizona was red. And
if Arizona is a swing state, then is New Jersey.
That's the big question that I'm going to sit there
and grapple with because something else is going on. It's
more than a single election, It's more than just Trump.
Every month since June of twenty twenty one, Republicans have
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been registering more new voters than Democrats, sometimes by a
few hundred, sometimes by several thousand, but it's added up.
In June twenty twenty one, New Jersey had two point
five to five million Democrats and one point four to
six million Republicans and another two point four to three
million independents. And I'll break down numbers like this, New
Jersey had one hundred and twenty thousand more Democrats than
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independents and one million, ninety thousand more Democrats than Republicans.
So fast forward to twenty twenty five, when the new
registration numbers just came up on March first. March first
one twenty five, Democrats had two point four to four
to eight million registered voters, Republicans had one point six
one million, and independence had two point four million. Now,
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I know it's a lot of numbers. Are just throw
a to you. I'll make it easy outbreak down this way,
the Democrats voter advantage. Voter enrollment advantage in New Jersey
went from one point zero nine million to eight hundred
and thirty four thousand, so two hundred and sixty thousand
voter advantage collapse over the course of four years. People
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registering for third party Actually, if you can mind, all
the third parties have forty thousand more voters than Democrats do,
which wasn't the case New Jersey. Usually Democrats were always
the dominant party. And now remember voter registration changes like
people changing their voter orstration. That is usually the last
part of some one's political evolution. In other words, people
will switch how they vote. They'll switch to what podcast
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they listen to, what papers they read, how they vote
in local elections, usually in the national elections, or vice versa,
depending on which election is coming up. The last thing
to change is someone's actual voter registration. That's the last
thing that's that they're going to do. They will be
a registered Democrat and but Republican or vice versa, sometimes
for decades before they actually make the switch, which is
why I state like West Virginia or Kentucky or Louisiana
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had huge Democrat voter advantage dating back from the nineteen fifties,
even though they'd been Republican states for many, many many years,
going back to the Regular Revolution and Nixon Revolution. But
that's the case for New Jersey. We're seeing this mass
swing to the right, and we're seeing it with people
actually re registering to vote. Twenty twenty four was not isolated,
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wasn't in a bubble. Twenty twenty four was the third
consecutive election that New Jersey moved to the right. In
twenty twenty one, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, he was
supposed to sail to an easy reelection victory. Most polls
had him winning between nine and eleven points, and he
ended up winning by just three against Jack Chitdarelli, who
was running again for governor this year. Three points was
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a shocker, and Jack Chitdarelli did not have national support.
In twenty twenty two, Republicans gained a congressional seat in
the state, despite it being massively jerrymandered in favor of Democrats.
In twenty twenty two, Republicans actually gained a congressional seat
in the US House delegation, and the state's voting population
moved five points to the Republican that was in the
midterms of twenty twenty two. They moved another three points
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in twenty twenty four in the House. Now, it hasn't
all been smooth sailing for the New Jersey GOP. They
did lose six state Assembly seats in twenty twenty three,
but that was mostly due to redistricting. Republicans have actually
only decreased their support in that massive landslide loss by
two points in the popular vote from the previous year
when they won six Assembly seats. Yet all this proves
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is that there's a slow but progressive drum beat tours
the GOP in the Garden State. Who knows. Like I said,
we've been here before. George W. Bush became very very
close to putting New Jersey in play in two thousand
and four. I'll bite with a much different coalition. He
had a lot more suburbanites in places like Morris County,
while Trump has a lot more urban and minority voters
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in places like Pa sae It County. But he was
the first Republican since George H. W. Bush to get
that close in nineteen ninety two. So nineteen eety two,
two thousand and four, in twenty twenty four, it's almost
like every decade or two we're seeing this swing. This
could be the permanent one though, If the realignment is real,
If these former Democrats with heavy emphasis on the ethnic
white Italians like an Ocean County and Asians and Hispanics,
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it's all very possible that this will be the coalition
that makes New Jersey into play, makes New Jersey the
next swing state. One last set of numbers before we
get to our guests. An Emerson College poll, which is
a hit and miss polling company. It's not my favorite,
but I'll take it because it's not the worst. In
late January, they found that President Donald Trump is more
popular than Democratic Governor Phil Murphy in New Jersey. Phil
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Murphy is leaving office with a forty four percent approval rating,
which isn't terrible, but when you consider among Republicans it's
only fourteen percent and among independence is twenty seven percent,
you realize on just how much he needs Democrat how
much only Democrats are really supporting him, and supporting him
by a lot. So could this mean that we end
up with the red New Jersey, a Republican governor in
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the state or Republican legislature. Let's talk to our guest
who's trying to make it all happen. You're listening to
It's a numbers game with Ryan Grodowski. We'll be right back.
Scott Pressler has become iconic among Republican circles, being over
six feet tall with long brown hair flowing beautiful brown hair.
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People have taken notice because he's one been outspoken Trump supporter,
but also because he's done the really hard work of
registering new voters. He runs the nonprofit Early Vote Action,
intending to register voters and get them to get Republicans
vote early, which would be wonderful. Scott, thanks for being
on the show.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Hey, thank you, Ryan.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, we delivered Pennsylvania last year and this year we
were headed to the Garden State.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, the episode's all about New Jersey. So I want
to know before we get started. You know, people have
known you for going out and registering voters and writing
letters before that. I remember when you used to write
letters thank you people vote for voting for Trump. This
is back in like twenty seventeen. How did you get
started in politics and was this always your ambition to
work in politics.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
No, I never thought I would be doing this life.
I graduated from college. I couldn't find a job despite
graduating with a three point six y three in criminal justice.
But this was under Obama. The economy was heearable. It
was hard for millennials to find their place in society.
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And so as I'm walking dogs for a living, as
I'm working at an elementary school, which were not my passions,
but I understand that those are good integral parts of
our society. I went, gosh, we can continue on this
direction with President Obama, or I can be a cog
in the machine and I can try to change society
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for the better, and so in twenty fourteen, I moved
to Texas.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
That's why I always have cowboy boots.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And my first political job ever was helping to elect
now Governor Greg Abbot down in Galveston, Texas. And so
for me, it's really been over the last decade a
political evolution of going from starting with Governor Abbot to
defeating Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen to protect the Supreme Court,
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to doing trash pickups in twenty nineteen inspired by President Trump.
Oh yeah, and now I'm really I think seen as
one of the voter registration gurus on the right that
has become a political strategist for the Republican Party.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah. You know, Scott, You're one of the people that
I can kind of relate to the most in the
sense of like you have an idea and you put
the wheels behind it and you just make it happen.
There's really no fixed, you know, job, Like you probably
don't know what you're going to be in five years,
but if you if your brain thinks of something worth
running towards, I'm you could probably do it. It's a
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very unusual like life, and there's not many people I
know who kind of have it. So I just thought
of that, like, so what you do is not easy,
and I'm seeing you give a lot of seminars and speeches.
You kind of spurred this like voter registration, grassroots effort, right,
how is that? How did that come about? And what
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is that like?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Net So, going into twenty eighteen, I was working for
a not for profit that I couldn't be political, And
I want to make it clear. Early Vote Action respectfully
is a political action committee or APAC, so we can
take unlimited contributions, but we are not tex depectable and.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's Early Voteaction dot com. So I just want to
make that clue now.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
No, it's important, it's important.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
And I knew that twenty eighteen had the potential to
be really bad for the president. You know, the Democrats
kept saying over and over that Hillary won the popular vote,
and you know, that was the me too movement, and
it was the year of being a woman, and I
was like, gosh, twenty eighteen is going to be so bad.
So a month before the election, I was like, Okay,
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I need to quit my job. I'm going to do
everything I can, travel to Florida and New Jersey all
over and try to keep members of Congress in those seats. Now,
ultimately we lost it, and so going into twenty nineteen
was a regrouping period for me. And I was like, Scott,
you have no job with Scott. The Republican Party right
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now just lost big time. What are we going to
do to shake things up? And I just had this
idea pop into my head, kind of like what you
said just a moment ago, and I went, You're going
to travel.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
The country and you're going to teach people how to register.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
To vote, because even the Republican Party is not doing
the grassroots organizing required in order to win elections. My
first event, Ryan was in Connecticut, where they have more
cows than people over in that state. And my first event,
and I think it was dan Berry, we got protested
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because I think the Democrats knew, Wow, this guy, if
we don't stop him now, is going to become an
organizer within the Republican Party. And despite the fact that
they protested us, we had more than double, perhaps triple
the amount of attendees. And I literally just started going
across the country from Connecticut to Fuquey, Verina, North Carolina,
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down to Sarasota, Florida, and each of them I did,
gathered more attendees, got bigger, My social media profile grew,
and people went, Wow, this guy is getting stuff done.
And so I spent twenty nineteen through twenty twenty two
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all on my lonesome organizing, traveling probably forty plus states
across the country, teaching people how to register other people
to vote.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, it was really inspiring. First of all, I think
I'm going to start talking about myself in third person
when I'm having internal conversations like you. I think that
that would be really good for me. But to know
that it was I as I mean, we started, I
don't even know what we met, but I saw the
growth happen, and I saw the growth happen very quickly
because it is very hard work and it's something that
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is not sexy and it's not glamorous, and most people
don't want to do because there are easier, sexier, glamorous
things to do. When we talked, we spoke in twenty
twenty four or twenty twenty three, whatever. I mentioned to
you that there were forty four million non college educated
white Americans who were not veraged voting. Two point eight
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million were in Pennsylvania. What did you notice in Pennsylvania
that other people didn't like? How did you even find
how to like non registered people?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Well?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I am very much a data guy and mathematical and
so here's how I approach elections. I went, gosh, Joe
Biden quote unquote one a Pennsylvania by eighty thousand votes
in twenty twenty, and I went, okay, how are we
going to recoup those eighty thousand voters and turn those
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into Republicans? And so I went as opposed to conversion
and persuasion, which are important. Don't get me wrong. We
need to be in the business of courting Democrat voters.
But ultimately, there are so many Republicans that are not
registered to vote. Eighty thousand truckers in Pennsylvania. I would
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assume logically the majority of those are going to be Conservatives.
My organization is really vote Action. So I went, okay,
a trucker is probably not voting because that person is
busy serving us and they're probably driving rigs on election day.
Let's get them a meal in ballot, Let's get them
to vote early and lock in those eighty thousand votes.
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Then we have the Amish community over especially in the
hub of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Now, this community, let's be real.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Governor Shapiro, a Democrat, has been attacking, waging a war
on their raw milk, their dairy they're farming. Then you
have society as a whole, which is coming down on
their bodily autonomy to choose not to have a vaccine
put into their children, their families. And then you have
the government coming down on their religious freedom and their
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school choice. And it just clipped, and I said, why
are we not making a real concerted effort to register that.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Amagh to vote?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Knowing Ryan that they get married on Tuesdays in November, y'all,
what happens on Tuesdays in November election day.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Let's get the homage to Meilan Ballot. Let's get it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
They only get married on Tuesday November.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
They get married largely on Tuesdays in November.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yes, I never knew that before. Okay, that's fascinating, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh yeah, oh no.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
And it was like a full circle moment because this
was like a week prior to the twenty twenty four
deadline to register to vote, and we're over in Lancaster
at an Amish benefit and this Amish woman comes up
to check her status because she can't do it herself online,
so we did it for her. She wasn't registered, they
removed her, so we got her registered and she goes, oh,
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you know what, I'd better get myself a meal on ballot.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm going to three weddings on election day. And it
just went.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
It was like an Aha moment that what I had
been practicing in the field had been come into fruition.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
And we used mail in.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Ballats to deliver President Trump the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Then
we have eight hundred thousand veterans in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is
the fourth largest home to veterans in the entire nation.
So we went to every VFW, we went to every
American legion, and you would be shocked by the amount
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of veterans that tell me, Scott, I already served our country.
I already did my part. I don't have to vote
because I already stopped communism overseas. And so really that's
where I come in. And we have to court them
and say, listen, thank you so much for your service.
We're so grateful for your sacrifice. But communism is here
domestically it's on our shores, and this is something we
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must be continuously vigilant by voting here in our country.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
And last, and probably the most important, and you'll notice
all of these groups. What were you talking about with
the forgotten men and American people, the white working class, Well,
if you look at the demographics, I would assume that
a lot of truckers are of that group, the homisher
of that group, veterans are of that group. And last, hunters,
three thousand hunters in Pennsylvania, thirty percent, three zero are
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not registered to vote. That's three hundred thousand votes.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
That is game over. That is the election. We went
to every gun shop, every gun show, and I do
believe that our work at early vote Action registering fifty
five zero thousand voters helped to deliver the Commonwealth and
two congressional seats Ryan mackenzie and Resnahan protecting.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Seven eight right.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Seven and eight, and then protecting Scott Peri in tenths
over in York, Adam Staffin. And then last, the most
important thing that we helped deliver as a family was
Senator Dave McCormick.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Right, I mean his vote, his election was very very tight.
So yeah, absolutely, I completely agree you're listening to It's
a numbers game with Ryan Gerdowski. We'll be right back
after this message. Going back to New Jersey. You know
in twenty twenty one that Phil Murphy the governor, won
by eighty four thousand, two hundred and ninety four votes.
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That was his margin of victory over Jack Chidrelli. The
Republicans since them have one hundred and seven thousand new
voters and Democrats have lost one hundred and twenty eight
thousand voters. There's clearly momentum Republicans in the state, in
the Garden State. What is your goal then, going forwards
is how many you want to write short to vote next?
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I guess seven months or whatever it is. Six months.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Sure, well, it's kind of it's kind of fortuitous that
I would be heading to New Jersey, a state that
was lost by approximately eighty thousand votes, and twenty twenty
one after helping to deliver Pennsylvania, another commonwealth that was
decided by eighty thousand votes. And so my feeling in
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this race is, as you just mentioned, the numbers are
already moving in our direction. Republicans have gained, Democrats have lost,
and in fact, if you have been looking at the data,
and the month of January, Democrats lost two thousand voters statewide.
Republicans gained ten thousand in January. Then the Secretary of
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State did a purge in the month of February that
Democrats lost eighty seven thousand voters. Republicans lost thirty seven
thousand voters, for a net loss for Democrats of forty
nine thousand voters. So when you take that twenty twenty
one was decided by eighty thousand and the Democrats already
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done down approximately fifty nine thousand, that shows me. Listen,
my New Jersey people that are listening right now, if
we get every single Trump voter out to vote this
year on Tuesday, November fourth, twenty twenty five, you will
replace Democrat Governor Murphy with a Republican governor.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Period.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Now is does you do amazing? Where is the R
and C doing anything to help you?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I will say I want to give a shout out.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
So here is a departure, and look, I'm not here
to I'm not here to be antagonistic. That's not my goal.
I'm a nice guy. Let's just say the previous administration
did not invest in twenty twenty one in New Jersey. However,
you know what's already happened, Ryan and February, just a
week ago, Chairman Michael Wattley was at an event in
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New Jersey. Casey Crosby, the coach here that replaced Laura Trump,
is doing in a event with me on March.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Thirteenth with Chairman Carlos Santos and Union County, New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And I know, I know we're talking New Jersey right now,
but this is important. You know what's happening on April first,
there's a Wisconsin Supreme Court election that is going to
decide which party controls the Supreme Court going into twenty
twenty eight. Casey Crosby, that beautiful coach here that we
have with the rn C, she is already coming to Wisconsin,
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something that the RNC didn't do in twenty twenty three
when we lost the Supreme Court. So this new RNC
is transformative and is finally listening to the grassroots and
is working with the grassroots.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Now. Union County, for those who don't know, is very democratic.
It's in the metropolitan New York City area. That's where
we saw the biggest Republican growth in the last election,
huge growth in Passaic County up everything near it touches
the New York City metro area and Kathy Hokals congestion
taxes not popular in that area. I will tell you
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as a as a lifelong New York it's not really
popular outside Manhattan. The Have you noticed any continued push
from these areas. There's a lot of Hispanics, a lot
of Asians, But I mean, have you seen this kind
of continued change? What have they said to you? If
you've met any voters who changed their minds?
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Well, part of it is seeing the change in leaderships.
So number one is Carlos Santos, clearly of Hispanic descent,
is now the chairman of Union County. He wasn't He
earned his way into that position. And over in Kenilworth
at a VFW hall just weeks ago, we had two
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hundred and forty six attendees in February in New Jersey
and Union County. It's nice saying those momentum and Bean County.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
By the way, you cannot get two hundred and forty six.
There weren't two hundred and forty six Republicans, let alone,
I mean two years ago. It is I think Union County,
I'm pretty sure was the only county Chris Christi loss
when he had his landslide in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I'll look that up later.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I might be wrong. I'm pretty sure that I'm corrected
as the only county loss. That's how democratic it was,
despite winning the state by twenty points, super democratic. I
cannot believe there were two hundred and forty six Republicans
in a single room in the county.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Oh oh well, what we're going to do is, when
this clip is up there, this audio, I'm going to
reply with the video of me with the two hundred
and forty six people behind me. Because you know that
I like to show the work that I do, and
so there's a Scott Presler video for every single event
that I do.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
But I do want to give a shout out to
Passaic County. There's a wonderful man.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
His name is Anthony and he is the owner of
gunn for Hire in Passic County, New Jersey. Now, as
you mentioned, there are two very critical communities that are
within this county that I think are going to be
decisive to try to our Republican candidate winning the governorship
(27:05):
this November and those are a the Hispanic community, but
especially our Puerto Ricans and our Dominicans. They are heavy
in this district. And you know what gives me hope.
We did a training over at gun for Hire. We
were registering people to vote. I taught voter registration. We
even registered one of the workers, the young people that
(27:25):
was getting people's waivers to go and shoot there at
the establishment, and several members of Hispanic community that are
running for State Assembly came over to me.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
These were all young Hispanic men and it was just
so cool to see that the tide is.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Really shifting and that the Republican Party is this faith, family, finance,
freedom party, and I think that is what is attracting
the Hispanic community to us. But one community that we
also must continue to shore up, especially after the track
jity of October seventh, is the Orthodox Jewish community. There
(28:04):
was a lot of room for growth, and so we
are making a concerted effort to get the Orthodox in
Pasaic registered. And also over in a town called Lakewood,
over an ocean.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Super super super Jewish, they actually elected. They voted for Trump.
I used margins and they elected a Democrat for the
state House who was a Rabbi. I don't think that
that guy can hold on though, because Orthodox usually have
huge turnouts in off yr elections, but when everyone's voting,
the numbers aren't that high. So hopefully we'll be in
back that seat too well.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
And Republicans were also smart, Ryan, because what we did is, look,
we understand the different needs of the state. The June
tenth primary, New Jersey June tenth primary, so everybody registered
with a party so you can vote in your closed primary.
They actually moved it back a week because of the
(28:58):
religious recognization of one of the spiritual holidays that they're having.
So that shows me that the Republican Party is listening
and they're going, Wow, we can get more people to
vote if we choose a date.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's not on a religious holiday.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well, Scott, I gotta tell you, in Passaic County, usually
the only reason Dominicans and Puerto Ricans would be getting
together at a gun show is to shoot each other.
But they're getting together for you because you are bringing
every louve, bringing to quote the great Moire Rose from
schitz Creek. You have all the bigger of a wartime operator.
Thank you so much for being on this show where
can people go to get involved, get active and join
(29:37):
your organization?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Thank you well. I want to be clear.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
In addition to our work helping to flip the New
Jersey governorship from blue to red on Tuesday, November four,
twenty twenty five, we are continuing our work in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. We are going to be expanding to Nevada,
and in twenty twenty six, we're going to help President
Trump keep the House of Representatives. If you want to
support our work financially, then I encourage you today help
(30:01):
me hire more staff in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and Nevada.
Please go to Early Vote Action dot com. That's Early
Vote Action dot com.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Again.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
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Speaker 1 (30:24):
Scott, you are so great. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you for doing this. I know you're such a
busy man. We'll hopefully speak soon and I'll keep everyone
updated all your great thanks. Thank you again for listening
to a numbers game with Ryan Gardowski. Appreciate you being here.
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