Without a post to vote, President Donald Trump may not be the first Republican in 36 years, who is carrying Bucks.
Critical Purple County voted for Trump last year using narrow 291 votes.
Analysis of postal voting in all health has shown that a significant part of the president’s success in the county can be attributed to improving the results in post votes, despite the fact that the years spent falsely claim that the method was uncertain.
Trump improved his postal voting margins throughout Pennsylvania, but GOP efforts to convince republican voters to vote by post were the greatest successes in Bucks, where Trump earned 9663 more cards for the postcard in 2024 against Vice President Kamali Harris than in 2020 against President Joe Bleden.
“With the margin we won, I am sure that it could be a post voting,” said Pat Pzytik, chairman of the Republican Committee of Bucks.
Republicans invested last year in campaigns to convince voters, skeptical after years of disinformation, in order to “bank” their voice. They believed that the election losses in 2020 and 2022 were partly driven by the early leading democrats won when they voted by post.
The postal voting campaign, which included intensive messages and directed communication, calling voters to demand and return voting, played a key role in conducting Trump’s victory in Pennsylvania.
In 2020, Biden received over 1.4 million more email votes than Trump in Pennsylvania. This democratic advantage in post votes was cut by half in 2024, narrowing slightly below 600,000 votes.
While some at GOP Cart 2024 was an ideal storm that cannot be repeated, Republican officials hope that the work they did to build the trust of voting voting voters will lead to similar wins in city elections in November and next year. If the rest of the state sees similar trends, they hope it can support Republicans in the whole state.
“It will be the same,” said Padrik. “We must pull confidence.”
What happened?
Trump discouraged postal voting in 2020. He falsely told votes that he was perilous, and then relied on these claims when he lied that the election in 2020 was stolen.
Until 2024, the Republicans in Bucks tried to convince the same voters to vote by post.
Linda Mannherz, the GOP committee and Bucks County GOP, spent the months, tormenting her colleagues at the head of the poviat party to board the voting – making members of the Executive Committee to stand at meetings, if they have not completed the voting card, and hoping that peer pressure will force the problem.
“You look a bit stupid when you stand two meetings in a row and you still haven’t filled the stupid little form,” she said.
He became the role of people of the poviat committee, ask He said to then chase individual voting cards in their area. She said that the poviat party improved data tracking and collecting in Bucks before the election and was able to more effectively go to voters who asked but did not return the voting card.
Ask said that motivation and enthusiasm were powered when the registration of voters of the Fountain was transferred to most of the Democrats to most Republicans in the summer.
Jim Worthington, the owner of Newtown Athletic Club and the longtime supporter of Trump, successfully collaborated with the US representative Brian Fitzpatrick, a lonely republican representing the Philadelphia region to finance and run a post -card program for the candidate before the 2020 election. And he remained a cheerleader of postal voting as a political strategy in the following years.
In an interview with Worthington, he said that his phone calls with the president helped him convince him to support post voting in 2024. Worthington, who founded a group releasing the People spokeswoman for Trump, worked closely with the Trump campaign to promote post voting in the county.
“The benefits that Bucks had in 24, I believe that other poviats will continue,” said Lawrence Tabas, former chairman of the state party. “They knew this process, used it, succeeded.”
In 2020, Montgomery’s unit led the Greater Philadelphia region in the casting cards for the cast for Trump, even when the unit definitely went to Biden. But Bucks withdrew in 2024, winning about 3,700 more post card cards than Montgomery.
Profits from Trump’s post voting in Bucks were not only huge enough to overtake Montgomery, but were an raise of 25% compared to elections in 2020, much higher than the raise in Chester, Delaware and Montgomery.
At the end of the election cycle in 2024, dramatic scenes took place when voters, many Republicans, for many hours at Bucks County Voter Services to personally demand and vote by post.
When the county cut off the lines in the voting centers before the published closing time, the RNC suffered, forcing the county to offer three additional days of voting personal post and enabling the Republican Bucks to further improve the numbers of voting after the post.
“Each second of these three days was full of Republicans voting early, on demand, personal voting cards,” said Scott Presler, an influence on GOP, which organizes early votes.
What does this mean for future choices?
Worthington is convinced that the party is already behind. His organization, Bucks County Votes, began working on a merger with voters in Bucks before key elections in 2026 and 2028.
But he is worried about the candidates and party leaders, they don’t do enough to prepare for city races or half.
“We will be in the world of trouble, not only in Dolce, but in the whole state,” said Worthington, arguing that the leaders of the local and state party did not do enough to reject the advantage over the voting of Democrats.
The key test, he said, will be in November, when the voters of Bucks decide on local law enforcement races.
“I do not want to wake up, but if it is, it would be if we lost this race in Bucks,” he said.
Senator of State Steve Santarsiero, chairman of the Democratic Party of Bucks, noticed that the Democrats are still voting by post by the margins of almost 2 to 1 to the Republicans in Bucks and that the basic election returns indicate that democrats will be easier to spend the base in November, when the county votes on the sheriff and the district prosecutor and the next year, when the Gubernator’s bureau will be ready.
“Although last year they could succeed, the democratic base is now much more enthusiastic in voting than a republican base.”
But 2024 may still have patterns set. Republican activists and voters are more accustomed to voting. Tabas said that a textbook that provided hundreds of more postal votes in 2024 can be repeated again in 2026.
And Mannherz, the Bucks Ferrings Committee, already means voters who used post voting last year and can be convinced again.
“Now they have tried, they realize how easy it is, it will be much easier sales,” she said.
